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Well, it's only a big problem if it fails and someone loses all their contacts. It's conceivable that someone could take a backup, edit it in some way, and not be able to re-import it and then have no contacts...

I guess there are two separate things here:

1) BUG: vCard import fails if the VCF file contains CR characters (which it quite often will if it comes from a Windows platform or a device designed primarily to interface with a Windows platform, which is most consumer devices since Windows still has the biggest general user market share)

2) SUGGESTION: Don't wipe the existing contacts if the vCard import imports 0 contacts, because that seems really silly. Parse the VCF for the new contacts before deleting all the existing contacts, and then fail the import and abort if there isn't at least 1 contact parsed.

I understand dismissing #2 if that's your wont, but I would urge you not to do so with #1. :)

Oh no worries, it didn't delete contacts from the phone, I didn't even have it set up to sync yet. I was just trying to import the vCard file, and what I was referring to was that it wouldn't parse the vCard file correctly (my guess is that it was hitting the first CR character and either treating it as eof or aborting) and would import 0 contacts from it but even when it gets nothing from the import it still wipes all the existing soocial contacts. (I didn't have any yet as I'm a new user, so again I didn't lose anything myself, but I can imagine how frustrating that would be for people!)
I understand that this is just a restore-from-backup feature at this point and isn't meant to add new contacts alongside existing ones, but it might be good to check if it got at least one contact out of the file before wiping the existing soocial contacts, as something probably went wrong with the import if it didn't find ANY.
Anyway, I know how difficult it is to determine the line breaking format in a text file, because they're so inconsistent:

DOS / Windows: CR LF
UNIX / OSX: LF
Mac (pre-OSX): CR

So if you want to replace both CR LF, and CR by itself, with a single LF before parsing the input, you could use regular expressions, or do two loops...

Anyway, before I got it to work I was experimenting with a couple different possibilities, character sets, vCard 2.1 vs 3.0, all of that, so my logs would be pretty messy, and I've done a successful full import twice now so depending on how long/large you keep logs, the troubles may not even still be around. Do you still want me to send my username?