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Duplicates EVERYTHING

Hi All
My universal and outlook seen to have duplicated everything at least twice.
I have searched the threads and come to the conclusion it is another M$ error, but can anyone please recommend a util (preferably free) to search through outlook or the phone and remove the duplicates?
Thanking you in anticipation
Lee

Unless I'm missing something here, wouldn't it be just as easy to go into Outlook on your desktop and remove the duplicates?? Then, sync the phone again??

and in case it's not duplicated there set activesync to "make my device to match outlook" mode

Hi
Quick replies
Yes it would be easy, but there are hundreds of entries.
And unfortunately the dupes are on both outlook and my universal
Still searching google for a solution

I've had this problem also, my contacts are duplicated 3 timesa and it's hard to delete it. still looking for a solution.

i had that problem before. and i know where it came from. i had yahoo go installed and i had goosync both syncing with outlook. all that syncing messed everything up.

Here is a solution - let the phone sync, and make sure that it's properly synced (not kidding). Then get a tool Anti-Dupe from w*w.anti-dupe.com
It's a desktop tool for removing duplicate entries (TODO, calendar, contacts, memo). Well it's for free, so don't expect too much. It just does it's job.
P.S.: Make sure you let it remove the duplicates one by one (ie first Contacts, then Tasks) and not everything at once. After it's done, the phone will sync and voila
Works for me almost every week (I sync 3 devices with Outlook - WM, PALM, Samsung).

A HUGE thank you

Does it work for you then?

How to not-sync Private Appointments?

Hi,
I searched the fora, found only very old threads but no answers.
When I sync my Hermes, I would like it to only sync the business items at work and not my private appointments.
I can mark my appointments as "private" in my outlook mobile, but they still appear on my work desktop.
does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

How about using categories? Just create a category "SYNC" and add this to all your business contacts. Obviously you'll have to adjust your ActiveSync settings accordingly.

I don't think it's possible to control exactly what syncs across. AS far as I know it's really an all or nothing.
/anyone get the pun?

Remove "Windows Live" from contact type

Tried searching but I could not find a solution to this. This is NOT the issue everyone was having with WL syncing contacts to the phone. On to my problem....
I have an HTC 8925 running OEM WM6 and have been playing around with Windows Live and Live Search. I have installed Windows Live and un-installed it twice now. After each install it has added a "Windows Live" contact type to my contacts. If you have WL you can see what I mean by going to add a new contact. There will be a contact type for WL. I currently have these contact types:
Outlook Contact, SIM Contact, Windows Live, and a duplicate Windows Live.
I have since un-installed WL and Live Search completely from my phone, but the WL contact types are still showing up and I cannot find any way to remove them. I would like to remove "Windows Live" from my contact types completely. If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Do a registry search with the keywords "Windows Live". You might be able to find the appropriate keys if they are in the registry.

My reg editor does not allowing searching, do you know of one that does? Anyways, I've been looking around and can;t find where these values are stored. Does anyone know where contact values are?
Edit: Nvm found it. If anyone wants to know where this is -
HKLM > System > PIMSources

Contacts Messed Up after migration from k610i

Hello All,
I have read the beginners guide and searched. Didn't find an answered so posting my problem.
I recently bought the HTC Touch Pro. Before that I had a SE k610i. So I transferred my contacts into the sim and then when I plugged the sim into the HTC TP, i asked it to copy to my contacts.
What I then saw was all my contacts were severely messed up. such as ;lastname;firstname\1 and so on. Obviously on k610i I had saved 2-3 numbers for each person so I can understand the \1 or \2 but the rest is unbelievable.
Can someone please guide me how to correct this because I'm unable to locate a setting to change in the HTC TP.
Thanks
Vivek

callingrohit said:
Hello All,
I have read the beginners guide and searched. Didn't find an answered so posting my problem.
I recently bought the HTC Touch Pro. Before that I had a SE k610i. So I transferred my contacts into the sim and then when I plugged the sim into the HTC TP, i asked it to copy to my contacts.
What I then saw was all my contacts were severely messed up. such as ;lastname;firstname\1 and so on. Obviously on k610i I had saved 2-3 numbers for each person so I can understand the \1 or \2 but the rest is unbelievable.
Can someone please guide me how to correct this because I'm unable to locate a setting to change in the HTC TP.
Thanks
Vivek
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Its how a SE phone saves the contacts.. I don't think you can do anything now besides syncing it back to Outlook and then ammend from there.
Or maybe you could sync your SE phone to Outlook. Verify that the first name, last name, and contact details are correct. If they are in the wrong order to begin with, means you have keyed in wrongly on your SE phone. If its ok in Outlook, then just sync it back to your PPC.
And I would suggest use Outloook as a base to sync all your phones.. Its much cleaner that way.

Yep, thats just how SE does things. It did the same thing on my Motorolas, and on my Samsungs...

Migrating contacts between SE and Touch Pro
bigb252 said:
Yep, thats just how SE does things. It did the same thing on my Motorolas, and on my Samsungs...
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i totally disagree with tht......i owned a SE P990i before Touch Pro and problems arising bcos of migration of contacts is bcos of Touch Pro or to put it better, Windows Mobile platform.......
WM 6 allows only 1 number entry as Mobile, hence if u have more than 2 numbers stored as Mobile in SE phone, only 1 will be transferred.....no matter which way u use.....
WM 6.0 allows only Mobile Number to be used as text messaging number....only work arnd is to save othr mobile number as work, dial it and frm call history, send sms.......
to Sync contacts between SE and Touch Pro, best way is to sync SE contacts with Outlook (select options in Outlook to store contacts as First Name, Last name or vice versa depending on ur choice) and same way, it wil be uploaded in Touch Pro.......
another thng is,, with SE, you can select Custom folder in Outlook to be synced, but Touch Pro uses default folder of Outlook (Active Profile)......so be carefull
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Kingjack
Current - Touch Pro - ROMeOS 1.22
X - SE P990i
XX - N 70
XXX - Nokia 6270

Thank you all for your comments.
Well I had a k610i and there was no sync option on it atleast that I know off. And anyways I don't like sync with outlook. I like to keep my email contacts and the phone contacts seperate. I don't want to have a 3rd issue develop here.....
So anyways I have realised that one way or the other I would need to edit all of them one by one to correct them on my HTC. Also, on my k610i the contacts were saved properly but HTC see's contacts very differently. So what I plan to do is take a contacts backup using PIMbackup. Once its in CSV format, I'll modify it there and restore it back rather than doing it from outlook or on the phone directly.
I wish there was an easy way such as a setting where one could choose how to display the contact names and numbers. Something I really feel HTC Touch Pro lacks.
Anyways hopefully for future users of HTC Touch Pro, there will be someone intelligent enough to create a software/global settings that would allow one to do this on the phone....
thank you once again
Regards
vivek

I had the same issue afew years back when i dropped my P900i.
as Kingjack mentioned it's becuase WM platform as well as Microsft outlook way of saving contacts is not the best (or let's say the flexible) way. SE is much more flexible and better...
however, Callingrohit needs to make his new TP usable and loaded with his contatcs..
a few years back i did it as follows: (it's a long way but effective).
- Have a software to backup contacts from your SE and save it as CSV or XLS file.
- from your outlook, save contacts as CSV or xls also.
- Manually compare the columns/format of both files, and try to manupilate the SE.CSV to look like the outlook one.
- import the new SE.CSV into outlook contacts.
now you should have all your contacts in outlook, then you can easily use the Active sync with your TP.
hope this is not too complicated.

Sorry Vivek, i didn't read your last message...
seems that you already figured it out by yourself ... ;-)

Discussed the same prob on Symbian forum -
http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37784&start=100&sid=c0d5ae68fa4412adce277da7e4c6fe69
I guess, the best way i fugured out till now is to sync using Outlook and then edit each contact having multiple mobil fields....
i will try method suggested by hatemd also
ne one has any idea, if someone is working on improving the contacts native form on WM or any other application which allows multiple mobile numbers

I migrate myself from k610i to TPro. There's a great piece of soft for SE phones (MyPhoneExplorer) - I used this to sync SE with Outlook and then Outlook with HTC via ActiveSync. It went ok.

Hatemd said:
I had the same issue afew years back when i dropped my P900i.
as Kingjack mentioned it's becuase WM platform as well as Microsft outlook way of saving contacts is not the best (or let's say the flexible) way. SE is much more flexible and better...
however, Callingrohit needs to make his new TP usable and loaded with his contatcs..
a few years back i did it as follows: (it's a long way but effective).
- Have a software to backup contacts from your SE and save it as CSV or XLS file.
- from your outlook, save contacts as CSV or xls also.
- Manually compare the columns/format of both files, and try to manupilate the SE.CSV to look like the outlook one.
- import the new SE.CSV into outlook contacts.
now you should have all your contacts in outlook, then you can easily use the Active sync with your TP.
hope this is not too complicated.
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No problem Hatemd. Thank you for your reply. Also, thanks to kingjack.
Finally I gave up and found that editing the CSV file is too much work as compared to editing contact fields via outlook. So I have finally sync the contacts of my HTC into a new general profile of outlook (no email address configured) and then edited all my contacts and sync'd them back onto my HTC. Now I'm able to see them correctly. ...finally
But then I realised the SIM contacts are also visible under my HTC contacts menu and so deleted all the SIM contacts as they were still in the bad format as it came from the SE k610i.
I'm going to use MyPhoneExplorer for SE as suggested by _rav. Thank you for that didn't know it existed. I'll use it and convert my SE contacts properly too...
But now my main concern is I would always like to have a backup of all my HTC contacts in my SIM card too but the moment I copy even a single contact into the SIM card, it starts showing up under the contacts menu and then I have duplicate contacts which is kinda distracting and annoying.
Is there a tweak or some setting to avoid the SIM contacts from being visible in the HTC contacts menu but at the same time allowing me to copy all the HTC contacts into the SIM card.
Thanks
Vivek

Don't know about the tweak, but anyway you'll still face a problem if you save serveal numbers/details for each name.
this won't be applicable for SIM cards.

Manila 2.5 Calendar Categories

Hallo,
I hope this is the right forum for my question - so if not, i'm sorry!
Is there a way to change or expand the calendar-categories in manila 2.5?
There are only 4 categories: Business, Holiday, Personal and Seasonal.
I think it would be helpful to add Categories like "Birthday, Meeting, Pet, Weeknumbers, etc".
I hope anyone can help - so -
Thanks

There`s an option "Create" while selecting category. Otherwise, you can create a category in Outlook, mark an appointment. When synchronising, all categories, mentioned in meetings, will be synchronised with your Diamond.

same issue!
I was just looking into the same issue:
I use oggsync to sync google calendars and just upgraded/flashed dutty's new 6.5 holy grale R0. For me there's definitely no option "create category", though my via oggsync synced appointments do have the right category. But when I create a new appointment I only can choose from Business, Holiday, Personal and Seasonal.
Is there another way to get my google categories in this list?
regards
bboerny

same problem on my hd2 with german stock ROM.

PUSH!
Outlook Mobile shows all categories, that are on exchange and pc outlook. But the HTC calendar shows only the preconfigured ones and not the new entries.
Is this a known bug?
Sebastian

hi,
i think its not a bug, at htc the simply do there own think with 'sense' and they simply didnt think about integration with wimo/outlook. maybe they taken the calendar from the android version of sense . anyhow i searched the web up and down and cannot find any information about it. i think they put the categories in one of there manilafiles and so a change would not be easy done.
an alternative is to use gekonewcal (its not free anymore) to make new appointments. the programm uses also own categories but you can edit them and put your outlook ones in. personaly i disabled this useless htc calender and looking now at thumbcal and other complete replacements.
regards mad

Modify Manila 2.5 calendar Categories
Not a real solution, but the best (only) solution I found so far:
change manila calendar categories