Palm contacts -> Google

Nice try but when I run this on my PC, it asks for the file, then immediately closes.

After a bit of debugging I realized that you must NOT include the extension otherwise your program fails without an error displaying.

For example, if my filename was "Family.vcf", typing in that, your program looks for "Family.vcf.VCF" and cannot find it. Typing in simply "Family" works fine however.

Of course Gmail still cannot import my contacts.. it keeps ending with "Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts." Same error I get when trying to import a version 2.1 VCF file.


EDIT: Ok found my particular problem.. the opps was being caused because a few of the contacts already existed for some reason.. once I deleted the duplicates, everything imported just fine.. I didn't even need to convert using the script strangely. (Still going through to make sure they all went in OK, but no errors at least)
 
Palm contacts -> Google

This works great. Just did it myself after researching this issue all morning!

? Open phone dialer on PRE or Pixi
? Type ##66623#
? Click on Export
? This creates the export file (.vcf)?.The more contacts you have the longer it takes
? Connect your USB cable to the computer and also to the PRE when it prompts you too.
? Click on the USB Drive on your pre to mount to computer
? Once mounted on your computer, open windows explorer and the Palm PRE
? Find the folder called temp and open it (if you don't find a temp folder, open folder options/view/and choose show hidden files/ then OK)
? You will find a file called PmMigration (this is the vcf file)
? Drag to your documents folder on your computer (PRE Backup folder) if you have one
? Use this file to import your contacts into Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or Outlook
? When you?re done Eject your Palm pre or safely remove hardware and then disconnect pre
? Your done?
 
There are obviously a lot of ways to get this done- what worked for me was to "send" via email "all" the contacts, except instead of sending them (my palm was already disconnected from the network), I saved that "send" email as a draft first. Next, I pulled up the draft, hightlighted the attachment, and saved it to the sd card in my palm. Then it was just a matter of placing the card in my pc reader, and from Google contacts, import the vCard file from that sd card.

Pretty easy method actually.

Now, if I can figure out a way to get my notes out of the old palm- I'm planning to try a similar approach- but there doesn't seem to be a place to put a file like that in my new android phone.
 
Hi
I used the technique listed below. It worked perfectly. I sent the "category" by bluetooth and imported all the contacts (2,000) into Google contacts that way. All the notes transfered with the contact details.
Not the photos but that's not a problem. Thanks very much avtobus. You saved me a hell of a lot of grief.
 
Greetings fellow Palmies...

I am preparing to migrate to an Android platform (DroidX?), and thanks to all of your efforts, I have gotten my contacts into Gmail using the export Vcard feature on Palm Desktop. However, I have the same delimma as StGeorge:


Has anyone found an app that will import our memos or notes and display them on Android?
 
For all of you with Palm Pres, the easiest way to do this is to install the Export Contacts via email patch and then import the .vcf file into gmail. I just did it and it too me literally five minutes.
 
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