Comments on: Working Around Gmail Contact Importing: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:24:38 +0000

Justin, Just glad I could help — when I originally ran across this (Right after getting my G1, much like you), the prospect of fixing up my 600 contacts manually made me want to just go to Outlook and forget about everything…

I agree though, this is so retarded that it’s busted. I noticed Gmail got another visual overhaul, but importing still doesn’t work — you figure on their end they have a log file filling up with exceptions… you’d think they would notice.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:18:30 +0000

You are really a savior.

I was getting ready to call T-Mobile rep & send a note to Gmail support for F***in up the import process. I was looking for a solution for this very same error for about 5 hours now. All the excitement of the new phone is gone now…..

Being in IT myself, just cannot figure out how Google could have messed up this bad.. especially for this long… looks like this has been reported for about 6 months now…

Any way… I am just glad I found this. Thanks for posting this for us.

By: Rob Shore

Rob Shore — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:11:17 +0000

If you are familiar with the phrase ‘driving me to drink’, I was in the car! That phrase: ‘Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts’ was about to get the best of me…until this post.

Thanks for taking the time to post!!

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:34:53 +0000

Josh,

Glad I could help!

P.S.> U of A alum here too! Still in Tucson.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:33:07 +0000

Oh THANK GOD. You are a wonderful person for figuring this out and sharing with the world. A google search brought me here, and it solved my problem. Thanks!!!!

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:35:03 +0000

Trackspike,

I know what you mean… I totally don’t understand why the “New” and “Old” gmail interfaces actually have different code flows through the “Import Contacts” code… that’s just weird.

By: Trackspike

Trackspike — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:07:45 +0000

Thanks so much! Worked perfectly – first time. Makes me wonder about quality control process at Google. I can understand bugs with new functionality but accurately porting old functionality seems like a no-brainer.

By: wael

wael — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:53:04 +0000

Perfect…its worked very cool.

Thanks a lot

By: Robert M

Robert M — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:25:35 +0000

That did the trick. Thank you! I’m surprised Google hasn’t caught that one.

By: Tzvi

Tzvi — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:34:52 +0000

You just saved me quite a bit of time and frustration. Thanks!

By: Pheo

Pheo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:15:44 +0000

Thank you!

By: Mike Lyne

Mike Lyne — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:52:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip, worked perfect first time. Even though I had been able to import the .csv to some accounts one kept bringing up the “unknown error”.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:52:17 +0000

Billy,

I’m glad I could help. Interestingly enough that is *exactly* why I was decking out my Google Contacts as well.

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:05:49 +0000

Thank you! I spent hours getting my contacts perfect for my G1 and then the error occured. You made everything better : )

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:07:30 +0000

Jim,

*Really* glad I could help, I spent so frigging long on this problem and the workaround turns out to be such a stupid thing — I knew I had to pass that along so others didn’t go insane too.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:26:44 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS.

Seriously, before I saw this I was getting ready top punch kittens.

Well done!

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:26:41 +0000

Ah! I’ve seen that f-ing bug, but only with Firefox for about 6 months then it disappeared, you mean the one where it shows the loading status bar, it gets to like 98% and just sits there right and never shows you the interface?

I haven’t seen that on Chrome yet, but I know what you are talking about. I had to go back to the older version of the UI.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:23:14 +0000

Sometimes I cant even get into my Gmail with Google Chrome, which doesnt make sense, all it does is load and load the page.