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When exporting contacts from the standard contacts application to the disk and importing them to Thunderbird - the pictures are missing.
I'd like to export all contacts with pictures though.
Is there a way to get a 100% backup of my contacts? Where are they stored and how can I back them up?
User @Izzy explained that encoded pictures are actually included in the .vcf created from the export.
This led me to think that the issue is actually with Thunbird's contacts import and not with android's contacts export. As it turns out this is right.
Since the default way for Thunderbird to import vcards appears to be faulty, I used the add-on MoreFunctionsForAddressBook to import the address book. It worked fine and included all the pictures!
00001.vcf. Could you check the exported file for a string likePHOTO;ENCODING=BASE64;JPEG(one example from mine, followed by the base64 encoded pic)? Really nothing? What is the source of the pics (maybe merged in from Facebook or the like)? Also, what's your device? – Izzy♦ Oct 27 '13 at 10:5200001.vcfcreated during the export does contain the encoded photos with the same string that you mention. The source of the pics is mostly.jpgbut could also contain some other formats. The device is a Nexus 4 running Cyanogenmod 10.2 . I guess the error has to be then how Thunderbird imports these contacts. – king_julien Oct 27 '13 at 11:08