sillyrabbitt
join:2008-12-16
New York, NY | More PC to MAC help/Questions Contacts and syncing with a ph
Hi All-
How do I either sync my samsung i730 to my MBP
or how do i move my outlook .pst file from my pc to my MBP so i can have all my contacts on the mac?
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nixen
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| said by sillyrabbitt  :Hi All- How do I either sync my samsung i730 to my MBP or how do i move my outlook .pst file from my pc to my MBP so i can have all my contacts on the mac? thanks!!!! Depends on who your cell provider is. PST is a fairly proprietary format. So, your best bet is to see if there's a service that will sync your phone with your mail server, then use ActiveSync (if there's a plugin for your phone) to go from your phone to your Mac.
You might also look at BitPIM.
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sillyrabbitt
join:2008-12-16
New York, NY
| here is what i tried but it didnt work for some reason my outlook did not give me the option to forward Vcards.
Moving Outlook Contacts to Mac OS X Address Book
In a nutshell, Microsoft makes it difficult. Fortunately it -can- be done.
Don’t bother with any of Outlook’s “export as text/cvs” functions, importing these files is nearly impossible. Exporting as vCard is conveniently not an option. “Save As” vCard is possible, but you can only do it for one contact at a time. Lame!
Here’s the easy way to get Outlook to save a whole bunch of vCards for you:
Open Outlook Contacts list.
Select all your contacts. This may be easiest in “Address Cards” view.
In the “Action” menu, select “Forward as vCard”.
Wait a moment while Outlook creates a new email with all of your contacts attached to it as vCards.
Send this email to yourself (be careful not to send it to anyone else, obviously).
Upon receipt of this email, save all the attachments to a location your mac can access, then import them into your Mac OS X Address Book. Yay!
Like I said, don’t bother with Outlook’s “export cvs/text” or “save as” functions. They’re extremely clunky and the amount of manual clean up you need to do is insane.
»lucaschan.com/weblog/2006/05/03/···ss-book/
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HERE IS WHAT WORKED FINALLY for ME
then what i did was dl thunderbird to my pc import my outlook address book then export it to a LDIF file then import the LDIF file into mac address book and BANG it worked  |
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rugby
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Camby, IN | reply to sillyrabbitt
Outlook2mac will automate the entire process for you. I recommend server-side syncing for everything nowadays. Either via Exchange or Kerio for everything makes it easy. |
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