Notices

Can you point me to specific steps to import that Mac Address Book file into GPE Contacts? I've never been successful on my own; forgot what it last tried months ago. Thanks.

GPE Contacts will import Vcard (.vcf) witch contain a single contact which makes the import process very teadiuos if you have a number of contacts. The built in Contacts application has the same import issue although it will export the entire data base as single contact Vcard files.

This is not strictly true.

If you select all of your contacts in apple address book and then hold down ALT whilst you drag them this will export them as single v-cards. Then in GPE contacts click tools, import, and then navigate to the folder with your contacts, now "Ctrl A" to select all and click import!

To delete your GPE contacts in bulk go to the terminal and type "rm ~/.gpe/contacts"

Every now and again I do a bulk delete and reinstall to keep the N810 up to date.

That's good news. I'd tried that with the internal Contacts and it didn't work. Should have tried again with GPE Contacts.

How can I import the exported Google Contacts into tablet?
thanks!

You can export all Gmail contacts to a vcard .vcf file. Problem is they are in a single file and only the 1st will be imported. If you split that file into mutiple vcard files, one contact per file, you can select all and import into GPE contacts. I'm not sure if this select all will work with the built in contacts file.

I have successfully synched my contacts in Evolution on Ubuntu Hardy on my laptop with GPE contacts on the Nokia N810 using multisync with evo2-sync and gpe-sync plugins.

This link gave me the inspiration:
http://www.cleardefinition.com/page/...d_GPE_on_N800/

As I could not install the package libopensync-plugin-gpe with normal apt-get or synaptic, I downloaded the debian package here:
http://packages.debian.org/de/lenny/...n-gpe/download
or you add
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main
as mirror server as stated.

I started struggling with setting a password for the standard user account "user" on the tablet. When typing passwd user in xterminal, I got the message that changing the password of user is not possible. So I used my root account (has been created when installing xterminal as I have been prompted for specifying root password) to synch my contact data. Therefore you have to specify "root" in the settings of gpe-sync plugin in the field "handheld_user". Executing the synchronization, you will be prompted for your root password. Then the contact data from Evolution on the computer won't be synched against /home/user/.gpe/contacts on the tablet as expected, but against .gpe/contacts in the root folder! You just need to add a softlink to the original location with
ln -s /home/user/.gpe/contacts contacts (being in /.gpe in root directory of the tablet)
so the requests are redirected to the contacts in the user directory that is used by GPE-contacts itself.
Might also work for calendars and todos, but I haven't tried yet.

Summary (what you need):
on the computer:
Evolution (if not shipped with distribution already)
multisync
plugings evo2-sync and gpe-sync
ssh (for creating the softlinks on the tablet)

on the tablet:
gpe-contacts (gpe-calendar, gpe-todo...)
gpesync