I thought this would take fifteen minutes. Instead, I burned most of my evening on it. What annoyed me was how the export itself finished quickly, but the output came out messy. I worked with a small 6 MB NSF file, so I never expected this much friction. I tried one common workaround first, and the result looked okay until I opened the contacts.

Thats where the trouble started. A few names looked split incorrectly, secondary numbers vanished, and one contact showed mismatched email info. The worst part was manual correction because even a small file becomes annoying when every third contact needs attention.

After wasting hours, thats when I realized I needed to stop experimenting with indirect methods. I ended up using TrustVare Contacts Manager for the NSF to VCF conversion. It handled the file directly and kept the contact details intact. That finally gave me a usable VCF file instead of another round of cleanup work.