Thread: Importing contacts to GPE
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Betty Woo is offline Betty Woo
2008-02-08 , 00:20
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Originally Posted by jaysin22 View Post
Don't know if anyone has a Mac but tried a sample export out of Address Book on Leopard of about 11 contacts into a Vcard. Transfered it to my N800 via bluetooth and then imported into GPE contacts and everything works and showed up exactly as what is on my Mac. Gonna try it tonight with a larger export. Will admit took about 1 minute to process but they were all correct.
I tried that with my Address Book on my iMac w. OS 10.4.11.

GPE wouldn't accept vCards (i.e. all the contacts in one file), only individual cards that had to be transfered one by one to a folder on the N800 and then imported into GPE.

GPE also 'failed' every vCard that had anything beyond the most basic information (i.e. if you put anything in the Address Book's 'notes' section, the vCard was rejected by GPE).

It was easy for Contacts to import the vCards file but it's rather useless without addresses, I find. Great if you only want email addresses or primary phone numbers.

I find the process too time-consuming for GPE and Contacts misses essential information from Address Book (like notes, birthdays, addresses). Both of these applications aren't completely satisfactory for me.

Ah, well. I have that information on my iPod that's invariably close by, anyway.

Chalk it up to another quirk of the OS2008 or GPE.

I don't need a particularly robust PIM for the N800 but I guess I know not what, exactly, I must be asking of the Nokia Gods.