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garyhgaryh · 08-14-2011, 01:15 AM

I did a mass migration of my contacts from palm desktop to yahoo to Google. Then I synced to the PE. Works great!

I used vcf to go from palm to yahoo. Because of the old palm exporting behavior, each phone entry for a contact will generate a separate entry for the same user. I ended up with a mess of double or triple entries. Some entries had half a dozen records. It was a mess! Luckily yahoo has an address cleaner in beta that'll merge the multiple records. Lucky me.

I then used CVS to export to Google contacts. Works great.

One sync and I was able to get over 500 contacts onto my PE.

I get sync errors when there is nothing to sync.

Gary

08-14-2011, 01:15 AM	#2
garyhgaryh Zealot Posts: 137 Karma: 13 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: California Device: Entourage Pocket Edge	I did a mass migration of my contacts from palm desktop to yahoo to Google. Then I synced to the PE. Works great! I used vcf to go from palm to yahoo. Because of the old palm exporting behavior, each phone entry for a contact will generate a separate entry for the same user. I ended up with a mess of double or triple entries. Some entries had half a dozen records. It was a mess! Luckily yahoo has an address cleaner in beta that'll merge the multiple records. Lucky me. I then used CVS to export to Google contacts. Works great. One sync and I was able to get over 500 contacts onto my PE. I get sync errors when there is nothing to sync. Gary Last edited by garyhgaryh; 08-14-2011 at 02:39 AM.