Audiovox SMT 5600 / SPV C500 (HTC Typhoon)
Microsoft Autosync - Outlook Contacts ?
Good Morning all, I have just received my 5600 and have been trying unsuccessfully to configure a few things with it.
One item that I thought you all might be able to help me with is with MS Autosync 3.7.1 and Outlook Contacts -- I have over 400 contacts split into different folders(categories) ie Personal, business, consultants etc.
My problem is I keep all my contacts in separate folders except for one contact in the root directory of Contacts - and that is the only contact that is syncs with the 5600.
I really don't want to loose my organization by dumping all 400+ contacts in the root directory, but figured someone might have some insight to my problem.
Thanks for the help.
Jeff
One item that I thought you all might be able to help me with is with MS Autosync 3.7.1 and Outlook Contacts -- I have over 400 contacts split into different folders(categories) ie Personal, business, consultants etc.
My problem is I keep all my contacts in separate folders except for one contact in the root directory of Contacts - and that is the only contact that is syncs with the 5600.
I really don't want to loose my organization by dumping all 400+ contacts in the root directory, but figured someone might have some insight to my problem.
Thanks for the help.
Jeff
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Hmmmm, all my contacts, which are in different "GROUPS" come across just fine. But contacts in different actual FOLDERS, no I am not surprised at that at all.
ActiveSync, as a rule, only has permission to the primary "Active" folder. If you open other PST files or other such things as secondaries, that data will not be transferred via ActiveSync. There are a number of reasons for this, but most of them are good ones.
If you want your contacts from other folders sync'd to the phone, you're going to need to copy and/or move them.
Just out of curiosity, is there any reason why you keep different "Folders" of contacts, and not just utilize groups within a single folder?
ActiveSync, as a rule, only has permission to the primary "Active" folder. If you open other PST files or other such things as secondaries, that data will not be transferred via ActiveSync. There are a number of reasons for this, but most of them are good ones.
If you want your contacts from other folders sync'd to the phone, you're going to need to copy and/or move them.
Just out of curiosity, is there any reason why you keep different "Folders" of contacts, and not just utilize groups within a single folder?
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OK, be patient with me as I see if I can explain the origin of my separate folders.
What happen is I have a very extensive list of contacts that I use (actually now that I look at them it is over 700) - so when I first got a PDA (Palm IIIc)and starting syncing (sp?) my contacts were not very organized, that is when I noticed my PDA had the ability to organize by "Categories", so I started grouping them in categories on my PDA, then when I synced (sp?) my PDA with Outlook 2002, it created a folders for each category from my PDA under the root of my Contacts folder.
I am not sure why you mentioned *.pst folders as these separate folders are not different pst files?
Anyway you are right, I just got use to filing my contacts that way, i...
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What happen is I have a very extensive list of contacts that I use (actually now that I look at them it is over 700) - so when I first got a PDA (Palm IIIc)and starting syncing (sp?) my contacts were not very organized, that is when I noticed my PDA had the ability to organize by "Categories", so I started grouping them in categories on my PDA, then when I synced (sp?) my PDA with Outlook 2002, it created a folders for each category from my PDA under the root of my Contacts folder.
I am not sure why you mentioned *.pst folders as these separate folders are not different pst files?
Anyway you are right, I just got use to filing my contacts that way, i...
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I was an early user of Palm devices (back to the original Palm Pilot 1000 and 5000). One of the things I learned very early on was that it was very difficult to get the Palm "categories" to align properly with the Outlook categories. Eventually, Palm (and Chapura) made that easier, but you either had to risk artificially limiting your categories in Outlook to 16 or just leave them as un-filed in your Palm, neither of which was really where I wanted to be. That is why I switched to Windows CE devices when they became available. Even the oldest clunky models handled the groups correctly.
I can certainly understand your desire to keep the contacts in different folders, but in doing so you are adding an (at present) unnecessary layer of effor...
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I can certainly understand your desire to keep the contacts in different folders, but in doing so you are adding an (at present) unnecessary layer of effor...
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Try this,
Go into the activsync menua on the PC, right click on contacts and select settings. You should be able to select your other folders for sync (or not).
Go into the activsync menua on the PC, right click on contacts and select settings. You should be able to select your other folders for sync (or not).
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