Contacts recovery

[Bernie_O]

I‘d try to split the file. Since a vcf-file is just single vCards stuck together one after the other, this is very easy:

1. Open the file in a text editor
2. split it anywhere between the lines END:VCARD and BEGIN:VCARD

Another approach is to verify the vcf-file with sabredav.

If that doesn’t help, you could restore the database from your backup and export the addressbooks with the script calcardbackup:

Calcardbackup: bash script to backup Nextcloud calendars and addressbooks as *.ics/*.vcf files

I like to backup my Nextcloud calendars and addressbooks as *.ics/*.vcf files, because it is very easy to restore: just import the backed up *.ics/*.vcf file to the server or a client and the accidentally deleted data is back online. calcardbackup downloads all available calendars/addressbooks from a Nextcloud instance as .ics/.vcf files. All downloaded files are then compressed to a single file with the current date in the filename. Your Nextcloud instance is broken? No problem: as long as yo…

Have a look at the section „does this also work with a broken instance“ in the Readme of the github-repository.