My two previous iPAQ PDAs running Activesync used to allow you to select
the
Contacts you wanted to sync by selecting their Category but now I'm using
a
Sprint HTC Mogul 6800 phone with Windows Mobile 6.0, you don't get this
option - it's all or none. The iPAQ happily handled over 3000 contacts
but
Sprint advised me not to try syncing more than 500 with the Mogul
otherwise
it grinds to a halt. It also takes three minutes to search for a text
string
in 500 contacts, whereas the PDA's could both search over 3000 in no more
than 17 seconds... As Diane suggests, in Outlook I've moved all the
contacts
I don't think I NEED on the phone, to a Temp Contacts subfolder in
Outlook,
but I regularly find that I've put one in there that I need to look at
while
I'm out and about, on the Mogul, even if I don't actually need to phone
the
person. Also, in Outlook, if I look someone's contact details up from
their
email address in an email they've sent me, and they are in the Temp
Contacts
folder, Outlook doesn't find them. I have to open another window and
search
myself for the contact and then maybe move it to the main Contacts folder
if
I think it's going to be back in regular use. I was told it's a
shortcoming
of the phone, not the mobile operating system. One thing to watch out
for,
though, which I didn't notice until it was too late - my phone TRUNCATES
the
'Notes' field of contacts, and so if I add some new text to that field
(typically at the top of the note field, so I can always see the latest
information) anything that was previously truncated off the bottom gets
lost
- only the truncated text is synced next time you connect.
Diane Poremsky said:
Outlook does not archive contacts because archiving is date based - you'd
lose all your older contacts in an archive process. Create a new folder
and
move the ones you don't need on the car into it. ActiveSync can't sync
subfolders so they will still be accessible in outlook and for email.
AFAIK, you can't sync by category with activesync, but you should check
with
the activesync group on this server to be sure (its been a few years
since I
used windows mobile and I could be remembering wrong) -
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie....aspx?dg=microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync
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"Peter Noon lives on" <Peter Noon lives (e-mail address removed)>
wrote
in message I've got a lot of contacts (more than 1,000) in Outlook 2007 but there
are
too many to sync onto my car's hands free kit.
Easy thought I. I'll just archive some contacts away - I want to keep
the
details but don't use them everyday. Wrong! There's no archiving of
contacts
(Why I wonder?).
So any bright ideas as to who I can restrict the number of numbers I
sync
to
my Win Mo 6.1 Smart Phone (HTC Touch Pro 2) without losing access to
the
data
on my PC?
Can I do this with catagories? Or can I create a second contact
folder -
in
which case how do I make sure that I sync the right folder to my smart
phone?
All (helpful) suggestions welcome - and thanks in advance.
