[amason]

Hi,

I know that PocketMac is working on a Pearl compatible upgrade, but until then, I'd love to get my contacts out of address and on my Pearl -- whatever it takes! I have a PC I can use, but when I export from address book, it exports as one giant vCard that only imports one record into Outlook for Windows.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Andrew

[Confused Amused]

Nope. :(

Here's my tries so far.

PocketMac for Blackberry with USB: Does not detect Pearl
PocketMac for Blackberry with Bluetooth (changed Serial port to PDA-Bluetooth-Sync): Does not detect Pearl
Pair devices, open Address book, select cards, Send To....: Pearl does not have necessary services
Install Blackberry software for Windows in Parallels desktop: Does not detect Pearl

This is really effing annoying. My next try is to install the Blackberry Sync crap on my XP laptop and convert my Apple address book to something Outlook will recognize and then sync the Pearl. It's obnoxious that RIM released this without any Mac support at all.

[pipermalibu]

I just got a response from PocketMac that it will be supported within 2 weeks.

[jasonrak]

Amason, I TOO had this difficulty But I have found a way that is working for me. You said you had accesss to a PC right? I am coming from a Treo 700p on Sprint so I had the latest version of Palm Desktop installed with my contacts
(as an FYI to everyone accd to RIM tech support: The latest Palm Desktop for the 700p is NOT supported for the switching option in the Blackberry Desktop Manager)
So I took a Vcard from my contacts and did an import in Microsoft Outlook. It did not come as one file for me, it showed all my contacts. Thats simply all I did, I didnt change anything aroudn in Outlook. So Im unsure as to why your does. But I can say it did work once I synced with the Blackberry Desktop. The fields were properly added as well so it looks good.
I use a Mac and this is the best I could do. Now I will cont to update the contacts on the device manually without syncing (since I dont use Outlook in reall ife anyway), and wait forever for teh Mac software update everyone else is awaiting..2 more weeks or less hopefully as per prior posts.
Good luck and keep trying because I can verify it does work.
Cheers!
Jason

[tibook]

This is what I did:

Set up my Exchange Server Account in Entourage 2004

Select all in Address Book

Copy them over to the Entourage 2004 Contact list

Pulled them up on my PC

Used Blackberry Desktop

I know its not a solution for Mac users, but at least its one way to get your contacts into the pearl. I'm grateful I didn't have to enter them manually!

[amason]

How do you get your addresses from Apple Address Book to Entourage?

[krbmsw]

I know that the Pearl won't accept a Vcard through bluetooth. Has anyone tried saving it to the microSD card?

[brianlamar]

can't you email it to yourself?

[tibook]

Select all your contacts (apple+a) in Address Book, and have Entourage's contacts section pulled up, and drag your Address Book contacts over to the Entourage window.

[amason]

Tried that. I couldn't open the vCard attachment, though.

[amason]

ah, got them into entourage and over to Outlook on the PC. Of course, the contact import fails half way through with no explanation... I give up.

[ediamond]

Here's what I did: installed Plaxo and sync'd Addressbook with Plaxo, synced Plaxo to outlook on the PC then synced the Pearl to Outlook on the PC. It worked but what a pain. Pocketmac, where ARE you?

[marabuchi]

I feel your pain. I too am waiting for PocketMac. Here is what I did, so I could have my contacts on my phone in the meantime.

1. I selected all of my contacts in Address Book.

2. I did an export to vCard.

3. Then, I went to a site (I can't post a URL yet because I am a new member, do a google search for vcfconvert) and converted to a Gmail compatible csv.

4. I then imported the contacts into Gmail (which I wanted to do anyway), and then exported from Gmail to a Outlook friendly csv.

5. Finally, I imported that csv into Outlook and synced my BlackBerry.


I know, lots of steps, but it works. By the way, I am not the owner of the website referenced above. The script is available for download on his site if you want to make sure that it is not doing something with your contacts besides parsing it into a csv. I looked it over, and (with my limited php knowledge) it doesn't seem to do anything else. As with everything on the internet though, use at your own risk! C'mon PocketMac!

[Nohl]

(Possible temporary solution)
The theory: the Pearl is supposed to be able to open an attachment with a .vcd extension (vcd) and import it to the address book.

The problem: when I try to test this, I can't open or see my attachments.

Has anyone else tried this?

Thanks.

[datafirm]

Originally Posted by pipermalibu

I just got a response from PocketMac that it will be supported within 2 weeks.

I think someone posted this a week ago. :(

[madagi]

Originally Posted by datafirm

I think someone posted this a week ago. :(

Probably that guy. Look at the timestamp of his post: 09-15-2006, 01:44 PM

[Kripto]

Not the best solution, but it worked for me..

Requires Parallels

1. Export contacts form the Mac Contacts app in vCard 3.0 format
2. Download the Palm Tungsten T3 Desktop Software for Windows
3. Import the contacts into Palm Desktop
3.5 You probably could do the same thing with the calendar app. Didn't try this.
4. Run the Blackberry Desktop Switch Device tool.
5. Sync your Palm Desktop to your Blackberry Pearl.

Done.

This isn't a regular sync solution, but if you have a ton of contacts and don't want to enter them all in by hand this works.

[bryanmsi]

I tried it but got a USB failure