Cannot import into Google Contacts

There are new dialing rules where I live so I thought I would try to
edit my contacts.

Opened contacts.google.com
More Export
All contacts
Outlook CSV
Export

File saved as contacts.csv in my downloads directory.

Edited that file and saved it as contacts-1.csv

Back to contacts.google.com
Delete all contats
More Import
Select contacts-1.csv
Import


and nothing happens!

Fortunately, they have incorporated their own backup system so I didn't
lose all my contacts but what went wrong????

Alek wrote:
There are new dialing rules where I live so I thought I would try to
edit my contacts.

Opened contacts.google.com
More Export
All contacts
Outlook CSV
Export

File saved as contacts.csv in my downloads directory.

Edited that file and saved it as contacts-1.csv

Back to contacts.google.com
Delete all contats
More Import
Select contacts-1.csv
Import


and nothing happens!

Fortunately, they have incorporated their own backup system so I didn't
lose all my contacts but what went wrong????


https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/1069522

It looks to me like there are two sites to handle contacts.

https://contacts.google.com/ === import from accounts only ???

https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=0#contacts == can use CSV ???

Just a guess (based on their wording and lack of candor).

You would expect the second older page to stop working
at some point. Just as these advice pages can go out
of date easily too.

Paul

Thanks.

Paul wrote on 8/17/2018 10:53 PM:
Alek wrote:
There are new dialing rules where I live so I thought I would try to
edit my contacts.

Opened contacts.google.com
More Export
All contacts
Outlook CSV
Export

File saved as contacts.csv in my downloads directory.

Edited that file and saved it as contacts-1.csv

Back to contacts.google.com
Delete all contats
More Import
Select contacts-1.csv
Import


and nothing happens!

Fortunately, they have incorporated their own backup system so I didn't
lose all my contacts but what went wrong????


https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/1069522

It looks to me like there are two sites to handle contacts.

https://contacts.google.com/ === import from accounts only ???

https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=0#contacts == can use CSV ???

Just a guess (based on their wording and lack of candor).

You would expect the second older page to stop working
at some point. Just as these advice pages can go out
of date easily too.

Paul

Paul wrote:

Alek wrote:
There are new dialing rules where I live so I thought I would try to
edit my contacts.

Opened contacts.google.com
More Export
All contacts
Outlook CSV
Export

File saved as contacts.csv in my downloads directory.

Edited that file and saved it as contacts-1.csv

Back to contacts.google.com
Delete all contats
More Import
Select contacts-1.csv
Import

and nothing happens!

Fortunately, they have incorporated their own backup system so I didn't
lose all my contacts but what went wrong????


https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/1069522

It looks to me like there are two sites to handle contacts.

https://contacts.google.com/ === import from accounts only ???

https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=0#contacts == can use CSV ???

Just a guess (based on their wording and lack of candor).

You would expect the second older page to stop working
at some point. Just as these advice pages can go out
of date easily too.

Paul

Alas, Google decided to move forward to new GUIs but those don't have
all the options, so they continue to provide the old page. For example,
I have to switch back to Legacy mode in Google Voice to get at many
configuration settings that are not yet available via their new GUI.
Each time I hit that need to switch to legacy mode, I send them another
feedback asking to migrate ALL settings to their new GUI.

The same for Contacts. When using their legacy GUI, there is a "Try
Contacts preview" link. Their old contacts page keeps bouncing around
while changing its size (the window keeps bouncing from showing and not
showing the horizontal and vertical scrollbars), so they ****ed up
something there. Sometimes changing the document width gets rid of the
bouncing. In their preview version GUI, there is a "Switch to the old
version" link at the bottom of the left pane. Once I switch to the old
GUI, that's the one I get when I later login. I wish I could do the
same with Google Voice and have it always login to their old GUI until
they finally get around to expending the resources to finish development
of their new GUI.

Almost everything at Google for their services is treated as an
experiment and why you cannot rely on anything surviving indefinitely.
If it somehow doesn't generate revenue then I expect it to be an
experiment and can disappear, and Google has made l-o-t-s of their
experiments disappear. The only reason Gmail survives is they do earn
revenue by farming out that service to business and schools (Yahoo and
Hotmail do the same).

Experiments (not always announced as such) that Google has dropped:

Google Talk
Google Hangouts (lost SMS, this will eventually become just chat - no
idea if they'll move Hangouts Dialer into Google Voice)
iGoogle
Google Health
Picnik
Google Buzz
Google Notebook
Google Dictionary
Google Labs
Google Wave
SearchWiki
Jaiku
Google Page Creator
Google Answers
Orkut
Google Reader

and many more.