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importing / exporting contacts
September 11, 2012, 04:41:12 am
Hi

New civicrm user - so please bear with me - I've searched and not found quite the topic I'm looking for.

I have contacts entered and there's a chance I may have to reinstall civicrm...

but regardless of that - when I export the contacts it generate a hash contact (which I presume is for security) can I ask - if I import in civicrm using this file - will civicrm decrypt this back into an email address?

Because if I have to reinstall an export/import may well save me hours and hours of work.

thanks!
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Re: importing / exporting contacts
September 11, 2012, 06:06:59 am
What settings are you using for your export? It shouldn't show a hash for anything. Emails should be exported as plain text.
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Re: importing / exporting contacts
September 14, 2012, 07:43:43 am
Its probably easier to use phpmyadmin to export the sql file and then import it again! This is pretty easy to do. (Backup database first! Also easy)
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