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Old November 14th, 2009, 03:37 AM   #3 (permalink)
droid99999
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Finally, got my contacts imported from Palm Desktop. While the Droid could not read the vcf, gmail contacts imported it nicely.

For whatever reason I never saw anyone else suggest going the Palm Desktop / vcf -> google import route. Everything was centered around using csv files which had problems.

Thanks much for leading me down this path!

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Originally Posted by hemorrhdroids View Post
No Gmail account? No worries. VZ only offered 2 solutions: import to gmail or have VZ store transfer the contacts.

You can export all your contacts from Palm Desktop into Droid, w/o any 3rd party intervention.
1) In Palm Desktop go to / Contacts / "Select All"
2) Go to File / export / choose "export as vcard"
3) connect your Droid to PC / MAC , and select "Notifications" / USB.. / "Mount" on the Droid.
4) Locate your Droid microSD, (it will show up as a new drive letter), Copy your Vcard export to the Droid card.
5) open Contacts on the Droid, select "Import/Export"
6) Select Import from SD card.

For reference, 1 contact record on the Vcard is about 1k, while a book of over 600 contacts, is about a 121k vcard.

The export will carry over all your numbers, emails and addresses for each contact, as well as some notes.

Hope that helps..
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