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Windows Live contacts not synchronizing with Outlook (but I would like them to!)

I apologise if this is a FAQ - I've searched but only found a single reference to a similar problem. It was in the Trinity forum here and the fix listed didn't help me.
I recently upgraded my Hermes to WM6 with Windows Live version 10.6.0028.1100. I have the synchronize options set to sync email and contacts, merging duplicate contacts.
When I synchronized with Windows Live, it downloaded the email and put the contacts on the phone, but the Live contacts won't synchronize over to Outlook. I would like them to, if possible (unlike most people it seems, from the search results I got) - they did in the previous version of Windows Live that I was using with WM5.
I also tried creating a "Windows Live" contact on the phone itself, and that did not synchronize with Outlook either. Regular contacts do.
Is this a known issue? If anyone is better with the search than I am, I'd be grateful for any assistance.
Edit: I just deleted the Activesync pairing and re-paired, then resynchronized with Windows Live. It deleted all but 5 of my contacts from my Messenger list (the 5 that were new since I updated to the new version of Messenger and that weren't in Outlook) - OUCH!

I just downgraded to 10.6.0026.1400, which I heard could be more stable.
I still have the same issues though - many Live contacts in my phone not synchronising to Outlook on the desktop.
Any ideas?

Have you considered trying Microsoft Outlook Connector on your desktop? This will allow outlook to sync directly with windows live. I have been also looking into ways to sync outlook connector on my desktop with an exchange server so i have true direct-push e-mail along with contact and calendar syncing from windows live. If this appeals to you, let me know and we can start a thread for that!
Best,
MJB

Interesting, thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of Outlook Connector. I might give the latest beta a go if there's no longer a way to synchronise them directly from the phone.
So is the issue with Live contacts not automatically synchronising to Outlook on the desktop expected, then? If so, it must have changed from the earlier pre-WM6 betas.

to the best of my knowledge u need a paid hotmail account for outlook connector

You don't need a paid account for mail and contacts, only for the rest (such as calendar).
Although Outlook (at least 2002 and 2007) lets you synchronize live mail anyway, so that's not much of a bonus.

Outlook-Help Please???

I am very new to the whole Palm thing but not to the computer thing. Anyway... I have had a regular cell phone for years of course but I really wanted to get my msn mail on my phone and also have a date book ect. So I got the crackberry but the only way I could get the MSN mail was to sign in to the web and go about it that way. What I was looking for was for the phone to just tell me I had a new message. I do have the paid version of MSN so I am able to check it through outlook on my laptop. Anyway... Thanks you do guys I have been able to at least get Microsoft Live onto my Trio 750 and as soon as I got it I upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.0 (thinking that might have been a mistake now). How in the world do I import all of my Outlook Express contacts from my laptop to this damn phone. Also is there anyway I can set-up outlook on the phone to check my various accounts (msn, Verizon, work)? Please please help and again I am sorry I am sure this is a neeewbe question.
Thanks again,
Glenn

Im not sure if you have already done this, but did you install and set up activesync. Activesync is a program that interfaces your treo with your laptop and there is also an option in activesync to save your contacts from outlook to you treo. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/activesync/activesync45.mspx Go there to download activesync 4.5, it is the latest one. Make sure you scroll towards the bottom of the page and click on the link that says "Worldwide English" Hope this answers you question.

after syncing the NOTES of Outlook, some of them in Outlook not readeble any more ..

Hi Folk,
it is not easy to explain, as I also do NOT know when in happened,
the problem is thas some of my notes are not any more readable in Outlook (I use 2007) but they are in my Polaris, and even after hard reset of Polaris, they can be red properly on my phone but not in Outlook,
In Outlook they also changed the icon, it i now a sort of mic and by clicking on it the VLC is starting :? :? :?
any idea, any solution?
Thanks
Isidar

First of all, I would check your advanced settings in ActiveSync. Some files are converted when they are transferred between a PC and Mobile Device, as you no doubt know. Perhaps you need to alter one of the conversion settings?
As for the icons, this may also be the same problem as above (converting them to the wrong format). Alternatively, check options in your Mobile Outlook. On the last page of options you can choose which icon is used, perhaps this is related?
Let us know how you go.

Hi Jadel,
thank you for your answer, I checked the settings on my sync, every one is left with the same .xxx in Laptop and in device, so that cannot be the problem.
I really did not find the exact .xxx suffix for the NOTES, it is not recongnisable.
Also the Icon it IS depending on the suffix, and the strange thing, is that only some of the notes has changed in Outlook and not all ...
May be I could change the suffix somewhere in the laptop, but I do not know where the notes are stored (I thing they are part of the .pst file of Outlook, and cannot be found on their own)
So I still am without solution, ahhh in the device (Polaris) all notes are displaied fine ...
strange thing ...

Hi to all,
no one any idea ... am I the only one who happened this?
...
tks
Ciao
Isidar

Might be same problem...
I have HTC HD mini with WM 6.5. Active Sync 4.5 (WinXP SP3) at work and Windows Mobile Device Center (Win7) at home.
After synchronizing Notes, Notes on PDA not readable more. Outlook Item file converting to .pwi file.
Settings on my sync, every one is left with the same .xxx in Laptop and in device.

Migrating from WM6 to Symbian...

I'm thinking of trying symbian platform.. Nokia E61i to be specific. Can anyone suggest any painfree way to transfer all my PIM data to the Nokia?
Thanks..

J_Kirk said:
I'm thinking of trying symbian platform.. Nokia E61i to be specific. Can anyone suggest any painfree way to transfer all my PIM data to the Nokia?
Thanks..
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transfer from what?
btw my bet would be maybe through outlook but i'm not sure if symbian supports that

Nokia!?!??

Loll.. well some newer Nokia models have very good .. almost pda like features. Plus they are excellent in multimedia, fast firmware, and nokia e61i is a blackberry-ish device.But the biggest hurdle is all my contacts, appointments, tasks, etc. etc... meaning, how to transfer them from my jamin to a symbian device?

I had a e61 before my i780 - if you use Outlook, forget it - it will drive you nuts - symbian doesn't synch things like categories and is much poorer for PIM.
Yes it will synch with outlook but in a crippled manner.

Use Outlook 2003
Simply sync with Outlook 2003 and then use the Nokia PC Suit to sync again with your symbian. Alternatively you can use Yahoo GO to sync online. Use Yahoo GO on your symbian too...
I Love Symbian Phones....

My Sony Ericsson P990 sync'd with Outlook way quicker and more reliably than any WM device I have used. Sony Ericsson's equivalent to activesync is also much better than Activesync in my opinion because you can turn it off when not using it.

mike freegan said:
My Sony Ericsson P990 sync'd with Outlook way quicker and more reliably than any WM device I have used. Sony Ericsson's equivalent to activesync is also much better than Activesync in my opinion because you can turn it off when not using it.
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My experience as well. I have never gotten even one duplicate entry using SE's PC Suite. And you can check the report to see exactly what was synced. The only thing missing is the ability to sync notes with jotted drawings.

Thanks a lot for all the help guys.. so synching with outlook would take care of contacts, tasks and appointments?? What about smses.. ? I don't think outlook would do that, would it?

J_Kirk said:
Thanks a lot for all the help guys.. so synching with outlook would take care of contacts, tasks and appointments?? What about smses.. ? I don't think outlook would do that, would it?
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I don't think there's an option for synching SMS; wish there was, I've got a few thousand on my Dual.

I was just searching for something to transfer SMS from WM to Nokia and I found this:
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/PC-and-Mac-Software/Migrating-from-Windows-Mobile-to-Nokia/td-p/747754
For exporting the messages to csv, I used the freeware PIM Backup (http://www.dotfred.net/). This software archives your messages (and lots of other stuff) to a PIB-file on the mobile device. I copied the file to my PC, renamed to .zip and unpacked the contained files. One of them is called msgs_*.csm - this is a csv-file that holds all the messages of the WinMo device. Problem is: the format is totally different from what PC suite expects. Here is a litte Perl-script that does the conversion:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
@na=(0,"Inbox","Outbox","SentItems","DeletedItems","Drafts");
read STDIN, $i, 2;
while (read(STDIN, $i, 4096)) {$s.=decode("UCS-2LE", $i);}
@a=split(/(?<=\")\r\n/,$s);
@idx=();$i=0;
for(split(/;/,shift(@a))) { $idx{$_}=$i++;}
for (@a) {
$_ or next;
@b=split /(?<!\\);/;
$b[$idx{"Account"}] ne '"SMS"' and next;
($f=$b[$idx{"Folder"}])=~s/^\"\\\\%MDF(\d)\"$/$1/;
($sa=$b[$idx{"Sender Address"}])=~s/^.*?<?([\+0-9]+)>?.*$/"$1"/;
$rc='"'.(split(/\\;/,$b[$idx{"Recipients"}]))[2].'"';
@t=split(/,/,$b[$idx{"Modify Time"}]);
($su=encode("UTF-8", $b[$idx{"Subject"}]))=~s/\r?\n/ /g;
$s="sms;".(($f==1||$f==4)?"deliver":"submit").";".(($f==1||$f==4)?"$sa;\"\"":"\"\";$rc").
";\"\";\"$t[0].$t[1].$t[2] $t[3]:$t[4]\";\"\";$su\r\n";
if (!fileno("FD$f")) {open "FD$f",">",$na[$f].".csv";}
syswrite "FD$f", $s, length($s);
I havent tried it as i dont know how to use pearl script....
Can any one here explain in detail about how to use it.....
It might be helpful to many.......

Synchronize device (WM 6.1) with 2 PCs via ActiveSync 4.5

Hallo,
I have a bg trouble. I have two notebooks. One at work (PC1) and one personal at home (PC2). I have looked for a solution how to get my contacts, tasks and notes from the notebook at work to my personal notebook. I use Micorost Outlook 2003 on both. And of course I will be able to work with my Outlook entries on both computers. I decided that I synchronize my HTC Kaiser with both computers.
The synchronization worked well with contacts and calendar entries. I suggest it. I have problems with tasks. I synchronized the Kaiser with PC2 and these happened - the reccuring entries got reminder dates reffering to the first due date. So i got for example a 114 weeks overdue task. I thougt that I change this at the PC2 and everything will be OK. But so i synchronized the same problem to PC1. And I have lost the completion in % information.
I do not know now where I have to do what to have the same tasks (title, due date, reminder date, completion) on PC1, PC2 and Pocket PC (here I lost also the reminder information). Can somebody help me please? How can I do it? :-(
And please, it is possible somehow to synchronize with 3 PCs?
Many thanks to everybody who wants me to help!!!