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
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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?
I have somehow ended up with a ton of duplicate entries on my xv6900 . . . does anyone know of a good way / program to take care of this? I've found a lot of programs online for doing it through Outlook, but I'm not willing to drop $40.00 to fix it (yet) . . . help!
depend on how many contacts one have really with my number
i would del them so it match in outlook and then set activesync to
make my pda mirror outlook on pc
sync and then set it back to merge from both so contacts added on
the pda would not be whiped when one sync
problem solved! check the app posted in this thread:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=34711&highlight=duplicate+contacts
also there is a problem when syncing to your outlook on your pc if you have any or work. then when you sync to your personal email out side of that.
some people have multiple hotmail, outlook ( work ) aol, gmail.
go into your sync on the phone and under sync uncheck the outlook that way it wont do both also.
summerblink said:
problem solved! check the app posted in this thread:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=34711&highlight=duplicate+contacts
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Any chance there is a solution for the calendar?
Hello,
I had a Nokia 6620 and I synced all the contacts with my laptop running Vista through Nokia PC Suite. I have a folder named "Contacts" in Vista now, which is also linked to the Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail is supposed to be the updated version of Outlook Express. When I opened Windows Mobile Device Center to sync all the contacts and calendar items to my HTC Fuze, the options to sync my contacts and calendar are disabled. Am I doing something wrong here? How do I sync all the data, which was stored on my Vista system by Nokia PC Suite, with my HTC Fuze, without opening a Windows account? Is there any other application I can use for this, other than Windows Mobile Device Center?
Thanks,
Keith
I am really stuck with all my contacts in Windows "Contacts" folder and not being able to sync them with my HTC Fuze. I would really appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction or help me out. Thanks.
Now I could be way off here so apologies if that is the case. I think WMDC only deals with Outlook (not Outlook Express). If that is the case then try importing your contacts into Outlook and then re-setting up your sync settings. That might help.
Another thing to consider is to go into Activesync on your device and then options. Look at what it thinks it is syncing. If contacts are already set to sync with something, then uncheck this and run the WMDC connections wizard again. You may find that this time you can select the contacts folder this time.
As I said, I could be way off as I am not a computer guru by any stretch of the imagination. All the best.
Sorry, 1 more thought. You may want to try and uninstal Nokia PC suite-it could be that WMDC sees the contacts being synced with Nokia PC suite and thus wont allow it to sync with your HTC. If you do unistall just remember to back up your contacts etc otherwise you could end up loosing them all. Not good me thinks!
Nokia Suite maintains its own database which is independent of Outlook's. Both can reside on the PC without conflict, however, the OP needs to have the data (Contatcs/Tasks/Notes/Cal, etc) in Outlook to sync to WM devices.
@incisivekeith
Easiest way to deal with this is:
Export out of the PC Suite to csv format (comma separated)
Import into Outlook
Sync with addressbook in outlook (combine records)
Sync with phone using active sync
Thank you everyone for your responses, but I have been struggling with another major issue here now. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I was not able to select contacts and other data in Windows MObile Device Center, so I unstalled WMDC as well as the device driver update. I restarted my system and when I installed both the WMDC driver update and WMDC istself, my system doesn't recognize my Fuze anymore. Not only that, I don't have many options in WMDC now, and, the WMDC window doesn't open most of the times. I have tried uninstalling both of them again, installing their versions from Microsoft's Web site, but to no avail. So now, I have the following problems:
1. I don't have functioning WMDC
2. When I connect my Fuze, it is not recognized, although the system makes a sound that there is something connected on the USB port
3. Vista has Windows Mail, not Outlook or Outlook Express
In response to suggestions about Activesync, I just learned that Activesync is installable only on XP, not Vista. I have been struggling with these issues since today morning. This shouldn't be this difficult, after all.
I will try connecting my Nokia 6620 to my system and try to export the contacts to csv format. When I opened Nokia PC Suite without connecting my Nokia phone, the contacts list showed empty on the Suite, maybe because it doesn't store them on the system, and pulls them out only from the phone? I will find that out too.
If someone can, please let me know how to unistall WMDC properly and reinstall it so that it functions the way it did the first time. Are there any other free software to accomplish this? All the help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Connect Fuze to WMDC
Start - Settings - Connections - USB to PC
If the "Enable adv..." is checked, uncheck or vice versa
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Start - Settings - Connections - USB to PC
If the "Enable adv..." is checked, uncheck or vice versa
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Thanks, that somehow helped, I am not sure how, but it did. When I cheched that option off, it again recognized my Fuze as a new device and installed the driver and WMDC, which works fine now, but still doesn't allow me to select contacts, calendar items, etc.
I followed a method here: http://manish.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/importing-contacts-to-windows-mobile-without-ms-outlook/
That method imported all data, with all contacts named "Unknown" and missing the details (phone numbers, address, etc.) of most of the contacts. So, I installed Outlook 2007 and tried to import the csv file in Outlook, but it gave me an error saying its translator was not able to read the csv file (the clipping of the error is attached). I have the following questions now:
1. How do I overcome the importing error
2. How do I sync contacts from Nokia phone directly into Outlook instead of Windows Mail, so that I can have the contacts in Outlook and then, I can just sync Outlook and Fuze.
3. Or, is there a way to have the contacts synced between Windows Mail and Outlook?
Again, thanks for all the help.
@incisivekeith
Haven't had a Nokia for some time but AFAIK the latest PhoneSuite allows you a full sync with outlook.
CSV can be tricky because it may fail at custom fields. Check the CSV file using Excel if you have all headers.
Worst case - take a deep breath and read what google has to say ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...k&btnG=Google+Search&aq=1&oq=import+csv+file+
OP, do you have OL installed? Otherwise, get OL and setup your Nokia PC Suite to sync with OL, then you can bring your contact & calendar from the Nokia into OL, then sync to your WM device thereafter. If you are not going to have OL soon, then dump your Nokia contacts onto the SIM and drop the SIM into the WM, but you still need to find a way to "scrub" the data.
Almost the same reply but putting the contacts on the SIM usually truncates add info like long names and multi phone entries. Through outlook would be the best and easiest way IMO.
tyguy said:
Almost the same reply but putting the contacts on the SIM usually truncates add info like long names and multi phone entries. Through outlook would be the best and easiest way IMO.
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Agreed, hence the "scrub" I threw that in b/c it appears the OP doesn't have OL readily available.
PHEW , finally!! It took me the whole day to just figure this out, and now I am thinking why I didn't think about this earlier. But I know why, probably because I didn't want to install Outlook just for the purpose of syncing. Anyway, tyguy, you were right that there should be/was a provision in Nokia PC Suite to sync that contacts with Outlook. I had checked all the settings, but I was checking the settings with Windows Mail chosen, I could find that I could choose Outlook only when I decided to create new settings. I synced Nokia phone to Outlook and then Outlook to my Fuze. Almost all the contacts and calendar items are as they are on my Nokia phone, so I am extremely happy. Some of the contacts, very few, are missing the phone numbers, but I can do that manually for that less a number of contacts. Thank you everyone for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
I remember I had to do a lot of work to solve this, and now I want my E90 back, cause all issues of this bad phone. It is not "safe": does not always ring the alarm, appointments gestion is very very bad, contacts sucks.
I have now the trial version of outlook, now it is over on 31/01 and I have no idea hot to do. I can' t syncronize anymore cause I will not pay for Outlook.
The reality is: wm sucks, i' m waiting for android.
PS: I saved contacts then copied one by one in outlook.
(forgive my english)
alessio
incisivekeith said:
PHEW , finally!! It took me whole day to just figure this out, and now I am thinking why I didn't think about this earlier. But I know why, probably because I didn't want to install Outlook just for the purpose of syncing. Anyway, tyguy, you were right that there should be/was a provision in Nokia PC Suite to sync that contacts with Outlook. I had checked all the settings, but I was checking the settings with Windows Mail chosen, I could find that I could choose Outlook only when I decided to create new settings. I synced Nokia phone to Outlook and then Outlook to my Fuze. Almost all the contacts and calendar items are as they are on my Nokia phone, so I am extremely happy. Some of the contacts, very few, are missing the phone numbers, but I can do that manually for that less a number of contacts. Thank you everyone for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
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And well, WM contacts only support 1 mobile number. Lots of contacts i have to register twice! It sucks!
I've cleaned up my contact list and deleted all the contacts on my phone to transfer the fresh ones from outlook. But mobile device center deletes my outlook contacts instead of transfering them to my phone! What do i do?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523397
read my answer in this thread
there are no active sync on Vista. But i think i found it, there are two alternatives if there is a conflict:
Replace elements on unit
Replace elements on desktop
Either doesn't do any good. the sync still tries to delete my outlook contacts.
I've tried the pimbackup also, but all the contacts end up as unknown on my phone.
the manilla 2.1 & 2.5 have the option to link your contacts with their facebook profile.
I flash ROMs all the time and have to RE-link all contacts manually which takes hours... (some of it is AUTO but only if thre's a perfect mach between your contact's name in your outlook and his name on facebook)
does anyone know where this info (the link between contacts & facebook) is stored ? so I can copy it and paste it back in the new ROM ?
Yeah use myphone to restore your contacts ..... works for me
THNX
THNX for replying
BUT...
I wish to do it through my outlook and would like to find that file
Tourist! said:
THNX for replying
BUT...
I wish to do it through my outlook and would like to find that file
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yeah it does mate, myphone is a new microsoft backup program, it auto syncs with your phone it will backup all your outlook contacts and merge duplicate ones
I have a related question.
I'm happy with the manila facebook integration updating my contact photos. However, when syncing with outlook, the contact images aren't updated. I still have contact images in outlook from the very 1st time I ever let manila sync my contacts with facebook (some time ago).
Is there any way to force an update of these images in outlook? I test deleted a photo in one of my outlook business cards, then sync'd the phone and the image does not return. So I now have the facebook image on my phone and no image in outlook.
Not desireable.
mancsoulja said:
yeah it does mate, myphone is a new microsoft backup program, it auto syncs with your phone it will backup all your outlook contacts and merge duplicate ones
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well, first of all I'll try myphone out and thnx again - is it a PC program or a phone app ?
because the main thing I want is to sync an "empty" phone (after flashing) with my PC outlook (mainly due to sync problems with windows7)
anyway, if anyone knows the location of that file - let me know.
when syncing with outlook, the contact images aren't updated. I still have contact images in outlook from the very 1st time I ever let manila sync my contacts with facebook (some time ago).
Is there any way to force an update of these images in outlook?
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+1 - good question
I saw this Quote while searching...
"when syncing with outlook, the contact images aren't updated. I still have contact images in outlook from the very 1st time I ever let manila sync my contacts with facebook (some time ago).Is there any way to force an update of these images in outlook?"
this is my problem for today too...
i linked my contacts with facebook and it took quite a lot of time....
i want photos and birthdays too in my outlook...is this possible?do we have any news?