Convert NBF to VCF
Recovery of contacts from old Nokia backups. Available nbf to vf recovery options.
How to convert nbf to vcf file
- Contacts and address books
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Users searching for nbf to vcf conversion are typically in need of recovery or export of contacts from old Nokia backup files (.nbf). NBF format is one of the proprietary formats from Nokia's PC Suite software, the original tool for Nokia users used up until 2012 before being replaced by Ovi. These files are sometimes labeled as side backups.
How to recover NBF files from Nokia phones
Using Nokia PC Suite
Although no longer available on Nokia website, you can still find installation packages of Nokia PC Suite on the Internet. With it, it's not really difficult to recover your contacts, but it might require access to the original Nokia device, which is not always a possible option.
Nokia NbuExplorer
The best alternative to the original Nokia PC Suite is the Nokia NbuExplorer utility. It allows users to explore the contents of .nbf files and recover them, in case of contacts it offers ways to save these in VCF format.
Manual decompression of NBF files.
Some sources claim that NBF backup files are similar to TAR archives and you can decompress them just like that. But other sources dispute that. It's probably worth trying to rename the suffix from .nbf to .tar and extracting the contents. If it works, you should be able to locate .vcf (vCard) files with the contacts.
