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iTouch contacts
Aug. 26th, 2009 01:00 pmOkay, I managed to get my old Palm Address Book into my iTouch and found a nice 3rd-party app for only $3.99 that lets me create groups. The app is named.... "Groups." Not the most creative name I've ever seen, but to the point.
Here's the procedure I used, starting with iTunes on a Windows XP machine with no Outlook:
1) Open Palm Desktop and clean up your address book. In particular, make sure that every entry has a name. If possible the firstname/lastname combination should be unique. This step took was the longest part of the whole procedure for me.
2) Export address book to vCard format: Select all entries, menu selection File->Export vCard.
3) Open Windows Address Book: never heard of it? Neither had I. It's in Programs->Accessories. If there's anything in it, delete all entries. Import the vCard file created in previous step. You can do this from the WAB menu or by simply drag-dropping the file onto the app. You then have to confirm every single entry, which is kind of a pain. Fortunately you can do this easily by simply holding down the Enter key. Unfortunately it doesn't like entries without names and will stop to query you for any entries with duplicate first/last names (thus, step 1).
4) Open iTunes with iTouch/iPhone connected. Select the device, go to Info tab, scroll down to section called something like "Sync contacts with..."
Select Windows Address Book from the dropdown menu. If there are already some entries in the iTouch contacts that you would like to get rid of, scroll down to the Advanced section and check the box next to Contacts. This will erase the current iTouch contacts list and replace it with the new one.
5) Hit the apply button (way at the bottom of the screen, on the right). This starts the sync.
Here's the procedure I used, starting with iTunes on a Windows XP machine with no Outlook:
1) Open Palm Desktop and clean up your address book. In particular, make sure that every entry has a name. If possible the firstname/lastname combination should be unique. This step took was the longest part of the whole procedure for me.
2) Export address book to vCard format: Select all entries, menu selection File->Export vCard.
3) Open Windows Address Book: never heard of it? Neither had I. It's in Programs->Accessories. If there's anything in it, delete all entries. Import the vCard file created in previous step. You can do this from the WAB menu or by simply drag-dropping the file onto the app. You then have to confirm every single entry, which is kind of a pain. Fortunately you can do this easily by simply holding down the Enter key. Unfortunately it doesn't like entries without names and will stop to query you for any entries with duplicate first/last names (thus, step 1).
4) Open iTunes with iTouch/iPhone connected. Select the device, go to Info tab, scroll down to section called something like "Sync contacts with..."
Select Windows Address Book from the dropdown menu. If there are already some entries in the iTouch contacts that you would like to get rid of, scroll down to the Advanced section and check the box next to Contacts. This will erase the current iTouch contacts list and replace it with the new one.
5) Hit the apply button (way at the bottom of the screen, on the right). This starts the sync.
