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Don't do what I did!

runnman

May 24, 2010, 8:22 PM
I Exported my 300+ Contacts from People to the Storage Card. That worked fine.
(Later, I learned, when I did that, I lost my Group assignment for each contact.) That is not the bad!

Here's the bad!
I thought I would do an Import from the Storage Card to People, thinking surely the process would provide an "Out" so that I could stop the process before execution and surely the process will not allow duplications. Wrong on both assumptions!

Well, it did not provide an "Out" and the Import Process immediately executed. There was provided a "Cancel" of continuing the process but I thought it best to continue the Import.
The end result was...I had 600+ Contacts in People; each contact was duplicated. That wasn't good.

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ch_saechao

Jun 1, 2010, 10:11 AM
maybe i should have read this first LOL. i ended up doing the same thing. now i know! 😁
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runnman

Jun 2, 2010, 4:20 PM
Sorry about that.
Note: any Import of Contacts to the phone will also remove previously selected Speed Dial settings and well as remove Group Selections.

If you are importing from the SD Card into the phone, the phone contact list should be empty or there will be duplications.

I have my Phone Contacts Backed-up to the Verizon BackUp Assistant using a daily sync schedule.
I also have my Phone Contacts Exported to my SD Card which will be used as needed (maybe in case of a Hard Reset). I manually re-do that Export as needed.
I also have the Phone Contacts backed-up to the Computer's Outlook Contacts using HTC Sync "Repair" selection of removing all Contacts from Outlook and exporting phone contacts to Outlook. I do not go from Compu...
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