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Hi - Any help here would be appreciated!
My mate has just got a P910i, all appears to be working ok, phone connects to PC via USB fine etc. the only problem is he's trying to sync his address book from Outlook (2000 I think) and he has 4,500 contacts in Outlook - has anyone had any experience of syncing this many contacts?
The sync begins as normal, initialising etc. then starts copying, an the outlook security box pops up regularly asking him to confirm that the sync program can access outlook (this in itself is annoy as you have to say 'yes' every 10 mins!)
After about an hour and a half the sync seems to crash - it either stops and closes without the 'sync complete' message, or just sits there and stops doing anything, and he has to end it waith task manager.
Anyone got any ideas/suggestions?
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Posted: 2005-02-07 01:57:48
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The P-series can handle those contacts, for as long as you have enough free PHONE RAM, and PHONE MEMORY.
If syncing doesn't work...yes Outlook is annoying, try to export the entire phonebook into a .vcf file then beam that file to the P910.
I stopped syncing with Outlook since it was a very slow and inefficient way to back-up my contacts, but if you need to use it, just set it so that it only updates the files changed. To do an initial synce of all those contacts, try the .vcf method.
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Posted: 2005-02-07 02:12:52
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How do you import the .vcf into the contact on the phone?
(Excuse my stupidity - I'm using a P800, and this question is for a friend with a P910i!)
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[ This Message was edited by: Robot Boy on 2005-02-07 01:51 ]
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Posted: 2005-02-07 02:16:58
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or you could bluetooth the folders across. worked fine for me. 400++
not much but still a reasonable amount
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Posted: 2005-02-07 02:31:36
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I tried synching contacts with outlook once and it took away the + from my country/Area codes....what's the deal?
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Posted: 2005-02-07 02:48:00
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whot, Outlook does that cuz America doesn't know what the + is for. They don't recognize it as an international standard, hence Microsoft Outlook doesn't keep it. That's why I no longer use Outlook to manage my contacts.
Robot boy, you can import the vcf file any way... cradle, IR or BT. Works the same for the P800 as well. Once the file is in your phone, open it... the phone will ask if you want to add the contacts to your phonebook.
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Posted: 2005-02-07 03:28:25
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Thanks for everyone's help....any idea how I can export the entire address book as a vcf? At the moment it would appear I can only export each individual entry?
Also - how do you 'open' it? Just tried to open an individual entry in 'viewer' on my P800 and it gave me an error saying it cannot open that file type!?
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[ This Message was edited by: Robot Boy on 2005-02-07 03:16 ]
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Posted: 2005-02-07 04:13:56
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to export simply goto to contacts and from the menu go to send folder, then you can send via irDA, bluetooth, mms, email. In all the first two cases you will directly send the .vcf file and in the latter two cases you will send the .vcf file as an attachment. hope this helps
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Posted: 2005-02-07 10:20:16
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Robot Boy are you sure that the phone's memory is not already full when you are trying to sync the contacts?
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Posted: 2005-02-08 23:56:55
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On 2005-02-08 23:56:55, microneo wrote:
Robot Boy are you sure that the phone's memory is not already full when you are trying to sync the contacts?
Yes - it's a brand new phone, not been used yet!
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Posted: 2005-02-09 01:00:08
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