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Originally Posted by KPeregrine
My contacts required some manual effort in Notepad (I have > 1000) but not too much. From Palm Desktop I exported my contacts as Vcards (.vcf). Then did a Search & Replace on:
Replace =0D=0A with a comma or special character of your choosing.
Replace X-Palm-Custom1: with NOTE:
Replace EMAIL: when it stands alone with EMAIL;HOME;INTERNET: or EMAIL;WORK;INTERNET: as the case may be.
Then I imported the final contact file into GMail without trouble.
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This is very helpful too. I'm working on the manual effort in Notepad. I think the string for the Palm note in my version is "X-PALM-CUSTOM;1:" note the semicolon before the '1'. Just to help others who might be working on it. Another resource is to have the field names handy for vcards, available at
vCard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .Also I'm seeing a lot of chatter that it matters greatly whether you have Palm desktop 4.x or 6.x. (unfortunately, I 'upgraded' to an unlocked centro last summer, meaning I'm on 6.x. 4.x's are pointing to
palmreader - Project Hosting on Google Code as a solution).
See also:
Can I import my Palm Desktop Calendar to Google - Calendar Help
After reading through the links I gave up on the manual vcard editing and just did CompanionLink (14 day free trial with full functionality) for everything and it seems to have worked pretty well: all repeating events are there for the year and all contacts are adjusted to lastname, firstname. Two problems so far (relatively minor): I liked to use the Palm calendar to take notes and reminders that I would then set to move forward everyday. I need to figure out how to make this happen in Google without making them appear on every day. Also all to-do's are transfered to the current day in google calendar and all memos are transfered to new contact categories. I think there's a memo app in Android I might try to dump those into. Looks like I'm finally saying so long to palm after 13 years (since the original US Robotics ones)!