Answers.Body: <p>That cron is not running is not affecting the import process.</p>
  
  <p>Ideas - in no particular order:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Perhaps your csv needs some formatting? Do you have columns for First Name; Last Name; Email adress and are they all in expect format? Email address should just be email address only (so separate columns):</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Mary (in column 1)
  Smith (in column 2)
  Mary.Smith@example.com (in column 3)</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>I find that MS Excel does not always give me a correctly formatted importable CSV file... so I always use Open Office instead - just look and save</p></li>
  <li><p>is the upload directory writable by the user the webserver runs as? Not sure where that lives in Wordpress; in Drupal it's files/civicrm/upload</p></li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks for your response, Karin. The columns were all formatted correctly. I tried again and it worked. The only change was that I left the default date format as it was.
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Body: <p>I am trying to import a Google Apps Contacts list in csv file format. I go through the steps; it goes through the motions of importing the file, but no contacts are added.
  We're running CiviCrm 4.7.8. It's a trial run on a friend's Wordpress account. We get a System Status:Error message that everything's not configured yet e.g. No Cron Running. 
  Any ideas?</p>
  
Tags: <contacts><import>
Title: How do I get csv file of Gmail contacts to import?
ThreadText: # How do I get csv file of Gmail contacts to import?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-23)
  
  I am trying to import a Google Apps Contacts list in csv file format. I go through the steps; it goes through the motions of importing the file, but no contacts are added.
  We're running CiviCrm 4.7.8. It's a trial run on a friend's Wordpress account. We get a System Status:Error message that everything's not configured yet e.g. No Cron Running.
  Any ideas?
  
  **Tags:** contacts, import
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-23. Score: 2
  
  That cron is not running is not affecting the import process.
  
  Ideas - in no particular order:
  
  * Perhaps your csv needs some formatting? Do you have columns for First Name; Last Name; Email adress and are they all in expect format? Email address should just be email address only (so separate columns):
  
  Mary (in column 1)
  Smith (in column 2)
  Mary.Smith@example.com (in column 3)
  
  * I find that MS Excel does not always give me a correctly formatted importable CSV file... so I always use Open Office instead - just look and save
  * is the upload directory writable by the user the webserver runs as? Not sure where that lives in Wordpress; in Drupal it's files/civicrm/upload
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks for your response, Karin. The columns were all formatted correctly. I tried again and it worked. The only change was that I left the default date format as it was.  
  
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