I’ve got data in my email Address Book on my Mac. I want to export it. I can do so, as vCards. I have done so.
Palm OS doesn’t recognize these and so I cannot import them into my Palm OS so I can transfer them out to my Tréo. Anyone know how I can export addresses out, and import them into Palm OS without hand-typing them ? From first attempt, the softwards cannot talk to one another.
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I’m not well versed with Macs. What email application are you using? Try to export your address book in .csv format, then install Palm Desktop and import the .csv file into Palm Desktop, then sync it with your Treo. Alternatively, Palm Desktop software also supports importing .vcf (vCard) files. So first try to import into the Palm Desktop software, then sync with the device.
I’m using the Mail program that comes with the Mac OS, though my email is not a .mac address.
I did try exporting them as vCards, then importing them into the Palm OS. The vCard files on my desktop remained “grayed out”- unreadable as an importable file. The Mac Address book allows exporting as a vCard only. The Palm OS should read vCards but it does not read these.
Hence my post here. The two programs should both speak the lovely language of vCard, but do not in this case.
I am not familiar with that setup but I do similar things as part of my job and I can almost guarantee you that the key is just to export it as some type of text file as mentioned above. Those are universal formats for virtually all systems. Extensions to look for are .txt and .csv
I use Address Book with my Palm all the time. I’ve found that anything labelled as a ‘work’ address in Address book won’t get transferred, as well as some extras (like birthdays) but otherwise it’s pretty simple.
Are you running iSync on your Mac? Try setting your preferences to slow synchronize.
To add to what Barbarian said, iSync synchs your Palm with your address book and with iCal. You can also set up iSync so that it does one or the other, as well.
Sorry, I couldn’t be of much help. If none of the above solutions work for you, see if this 3rd party product helps:
No I do not use iSync, but now that I see what Xash has brought in, it seems to make more sense to go with a product that does not have the limitations in categories that iSync does.
Cool ! I’ll try it out. I still have not activated this as a phone, because I want to make sure it is completely functioning as a PDA and overall good device. I know the phone part and email part will be straightforward. Or… I hope it will. 