{"id":872,"date":"2009-10-18T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-10-19T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:01:10","slug":"transferring-contacts-from-palm-treo-755p-to-iphone-using-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2009\/transferring-contacts-from-palm-treo-755p-to-iphone-using-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Transferring contacts from Palm Treo 755p to iPhone using Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest way I came up with was to use Vista&#8217;s &#8220;Windows Contacts&#8221; as a gateway.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sync your Treo with the Palm Desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Export contacts from the Palm Desktop as a CSV file, keeping track of the exported columns and names (yuck).\n<ul>\n<li>After exporting, I had to open the CSV file and remove all question marks in the contact names before the next step would work (doh).<\/li>\n<li>After discovering that most carriers require you to dial 10 digits these days, I did a regex replace to add my area code to all 7-digit phone numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Import into Windows Contacts, adjusting the mapping using the list of fields from the export (yuck).<\/li>\n<li>Open iTunes and connect your iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Device, and select the Info tab.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the Contacts section, and select [x] Sync contacts with Windows Contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Sync up!  iTunes will warn you if you&#8217;re trying to import a lot of contacts.<\/li>\n<li>I turned off the Windows Contacts sync after the import, I won&#8217;t be using it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, now I have a whole bunch of crappy old contacts in my iPhone, yay!  :>  At least Windows Contacts managed to remove duplicates, something I could never accomplish with my Palm\/kpilot\/etc. syncing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest way I came up with was to use Vista&#8217;s &#8220;Windows Contacts&#8221; as a gateway. Sync your Treo with the Palm Desktop. Export contacts from the Palm Desktop as a CSV file, keeping track of the exported columns and names (yuck). After exporting, I had to open the CSV file and remove all question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-tricks-tips-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-e4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}