No Categories in Address Book = none in Palm

Just switched over from Windows - happily - and all my Contacts are now in Apple's AddressBook. I use MissingSync to sync AddressBook to my Treo, but since there's no Category field in AddressBook, I cannot sort by categories in my Palm.
I found that to be a very useful feature. For instance, if I was trying to think of the name of a restaurant, I could just look at the contacts in the Restaurants category. Now, I can't.
Has anyone come up with a workaround for this?

Missing Sync will in fact do this... If you have contacts in Address Book sorted into Groups, the group name will become the category in the Palm. It is admittedly not very elegant: you have to be sure not to have a contact in more than one group. And I hate not being able to see categories easily in Address Book, but at least it works on the Palm....

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Troubleshooting Address Book issues using Palm Desktop for Mac (v. 4.2.1) and a T3?

Can someone please make suggestions which would correct the following issues?
1) When printing an Address Book from my Mac, the information in the "title" field prints twice. (I have checked my Preferences settings & reviewed how I have entered the information, etc. and everything is in order; also, an Address CARD DOES print correctly --- and --- after syncing to my T3 and then to my husband's PC, an Address Book prints correctly from the PC.)
2) After I have synced the Address Book from my Mac to my T3, the "zip code" entries appear BEFORE the "city" entries on the T3. (The zip codes appear correctly on my Mac and print out correctly.)
3) After I have synced the Address Book from my Mac to my T3, the "contacts" all appear in BLACK on my T3. Is there any way to show the different "contact categories" in COLOR on the T3 as they were originally entered in my Palm Desktop for Mac?
Post relates to: Tungsten T3

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Question Details: Can someone please make suggestions which would correct the following issues?
1) When printing an Address Book from my Mac, the information in the 'title' field prints twice. (I have checked my Preferences settings & reviewed how I have entered the information, etc. and everything is in order; also, an Address CARD DOES print correctly --- and --- after syncing to my T3 and then to my husband's PC, an Address Book prints correctly from the PC.)
2) After I have synced the Address Book from my Mac to my T3, the 'zip code' entries appear BEFORE the 'city' entries on the T3. (The zip codes appear correctly on my Mac and print out correctly.)
3) After I have synced the Address Book from my Mac to my T3, the 'contacts' all appear in BLACK on my T3. Is there any way to show the different 'contact categories' in COLOR on the T3 as they were originally entered in my Palm Desktop for Mac?
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Categories in Address Book

I am trying to create categories in Address Book. I found this helpful hint in support:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AppleScript/2.1/en/as2029.html
When I go to the folder where the plug in is supposed to be it is empty
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins folder. My MacBook is brand new....suggestion?

what exactly are you trying to achieve in ab? the link you have referenced pertains to adding apple scripts to ab. you would first have to find the apple script you would like to use for the purpose you would like to use it - or create it - and then add it so that it works with ab.
do you mean categories as in creating groups in which you would move your contacts, in other words having a work group, a personal group, a family group? if so then launch ab, go to file>new group and add your group, or click on the + sign at the bottom of the left hand side column.
let me know if i misunderstood your query.
hope this helps

Help! Error: Failed to open Address Book Database on Palm Desktop

In advance, thank you, thank you, thank you to the person who saves me from this error! I have no idea what I've done to deserve this!?! So, thank you for helping!!!
Here's the problem:
When I double click on the Palm Desktop icon on my desktop, I get: Error: Failed to open Address Book Database on Palm Desktop
And then, I get: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
When I click on the details button, it says: PALM caused an invalid page fault in
module MFC42.DLL at 0177:5f404045.
Registers:
EAX=0082fad8 CS=0177 EIP=5f404045 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=0082fa94 EBP=00855d0c
ECX=5f4d1c58 DS=017f ESI=0082fad8 FS=572f
EDX=00017b84 ES=017f EDI=00000008 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 07 3b c8 74 34 83 79 f4 00 7d 0f 83 c1 f4 3b
Stack dump:
00000000 008558c0 004b5d3d 00000008 01befe17 0082fad8 008559cc 008558c0 00855d0c 00000000 00000010 5f4d1c58 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Again, thanks for your help in advance!
Post relates to: Palm Vx

I've seen a lot of people post a message that's basically like the problem I'm having. I'm sending this to everyone who had the same general type of question in hopes that my fix might cure your problem also.
My Palm Desktop (4.1.4) would open correctly the first time after installing, but after doing a hotsync it would crash every other time it was opened (using a Tungsten E). I'm running Windows XP Professional, and it would give an error saying "Windows XP has encountered an error and needs to close", or something like that.
I did the usual. Removed the program and reinstalled, which didn't work. I also went through the tedious process of uninstalling the software, then removing every registry entry by hand that referenced the Palm or Pocketmirror, which also didn't work.
I searched through the support files on palmone.com and found something that gave me an idea. It talked about removing a corrupted file to fix problems with the datebook. I hadn't been getting any errors pointing to a specific problem, but on a hunch I deleted the entire address folder out of the Palm directory. That did the trick!
A corrupted address book in the Palm Desktop software was keeping it from running. The problem was how to fix the corruption, which I eventually found on a menu option in the Palm Desktop software.
Below is the fix that worked for me. Caution! Only do this if you have all of the current info in your Palm, because it will erase what's on your Palm Desktop.
1. Go to your Palm folder on your pc (default install location is c:\palm) and open the folder for your user.
2. Delete the address, datebook, expense, memopad, note pad and todo folders.
3. Open the Palm Desktop program.
4. Do a hotsync.
5. Important! Don't click on anything else in the Palm Desktop after doing the hotsync. If you change to one of the areas that has corrupted data, it will immediately crash.
6. Right after doing the hotsync, click Tools on the top menu in the Palm Desktop, then Options. Click on the Tools tab and then click Check Now to fix the corrupted data.
7. Click OK.
That should hopefully get you running again. Let me know if that worked for you.

Why wont my Mac Address Book overwrite my Palm Desktop????

I have spent the last few days messy about with this bloody isync and my treo 650 trying to configure the address books in the way i would like.
yesterday i managed to finally back up my palm top (treo 650) and merge it with my mac address book. the only problem with this was that there were a lot of duplicate names, or names from the address book that didnt have numbers etc etc.
Anyway, the good thing was that i now had all of my contacts from my phone into my mac address book.
this morning i spent hours going through my now complete mac address book weeding out and duplicates, and basically making it perfect.
now i cant figure out how to overwrite my treo and my palm desktop on my mac with my mac address book contacts!!!! its driving me crazy!
i am not worried about ical, or any of the other things syncing (although i suppose it would be a bonus) i just want to get my address book contacts on my treo and to overwrite the old messy version of palm desktop that has all of the duplicates in it.
any ideas? i am running OSX 10.4.8 isync 2.3 and have palm desktop 4.2.1
many thanks
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

not quite sure what has happened now. i backed up the address book and exported the v cards (when you said select all in the left most sidebar did you mean select all of the groups or just the group called 'all'? i selected just the group called all).
i then imported them fine into palm desktop using the methods you said except that in my mac address book i had 586 cards and in palm desktop it only seems to say i have 312.
also when i was copying them it asked it i wanted to keep the new or old version with the only differences i could see between the new and the old cards being that it now said CATEGORIES: Palm in the notes section. i said yes to replacing all of the old ones with these new palm ones.
when i went back to the address book afterwards, it now seems to have taken a lot of various addresses out of the various groups i had them set up in. they are all still there in 'all' though so at least thats something.
i also seem to have some random duplicates in palm desktop.
i have also noticed that if for example in mac address book you dont fill in the first name in the first name box and the surname in the surname box (ie you write the first name and the surname in the first name box) then this can cause problems when you try and display stuff alphabetically in palm desktop.
i have some contacts with just names and emails, and some with numbers, emails etc etc. could this cause problems? i am also wondering if each card isnt set up in exactly the same format, could this cause problems in palm desktop (ie the order you have mobile, home, email etc listed on each card?)
still not sure why i only have almost half of my numbers though!?
can you help?
many thanks

Address book transfer from Palm 3x to Mac Address Book Lion

Have a vintage Palm3x synched with a vintage Dell Inspiron 8300 desktop computer using XP. Recently aquired a Mac Book Pro with the new Lion OS. Is there any way to transfer the address book and memos from the old machine to the new? Apple recommended trying to transfer via a flash drive using the .csv format. When I tried to export the data from the Palm Desktop OS 3.0.1 to the flash drive, I got a message: : "Export error, *.csv contains an invalid path". Heard from another source that Palm 3X is incompatible with Lion OS anyway, and to try to export to Microsoft Outlook on the old Dell first and then to attempt to synch with the Mac from Outlook...
Any ideas on how this might be done, and if so, what exact steps should I take? Should I still attempt to sync with Outlook with .csv format? Tried this, but couldn't find the appropriate folder to export to - under the C: drive, there were only about 6 or 8 options, none of which seemed to have anything to do with Outlook.
Post relates to: Palm IIIx

I tried going to the application support folder to get the address book to transfer from my iMac with Leopard to my Powerbook with Tiger. It didn't work for me either. So here's what I did and it worked like a charm:
Select all contacts in each separate group in your address book on your iMac and drag them individually to a thumb or flash drive. This will create a vcard for each of the groups. ( I had 8 groups). Plug the drive into your Powerbook, add the name of each group you are transferring, and drop each group into the proper group on the Address book. This essentially copies each V-Card from one computer to the other. If you have obsolete addresses on your Powerbook, they will be automatically updated. This may be too late to help you, but perhaps someone else may have the same problem.

Importing Address Book & Calendar from Palm to Mac

I just got a new MacBook and would like to import my address book and calendar from my Palm to iCal and the Address Book on Mac. I tried unsuccessfully to import my Address Book and Calendar from Lotus Notes for PC and it although I exported it in the formats indicated available on Mac - nothing went into iCal or the Address book and importing it into Entourage was a complete disaster - it created over 285,000 useless records and locked up the Mac. So instead I've now installed Palm Desktop for Mac - and hope that I can sync my old Tungsten C (originally set up and synced for PC). If so, I'd like to export the Address Book and maybe the Calendar from the Palm Desktop to iCal and Mac Address Book. Is this possible? Has anyone done it? Everyone says Macs are easier than PCs and it's easy to bring over your stuff from PC - which has not exactly been my experience. Advice appreciated.

Thanks, I did look at the link. What is not clear to me is whether it can sync the data (address book and calendar - tho calendar is less important) from my Tungsten C that was previously always synced with a PC - to a MacBook now. Any information on that?

Using Address Book Exporter to move Address Book Contacts to Palm Desktop

I have had strangely mixed results using "Address Book Exporter" to create files that can be imported into Palm Desktop.
I really want to export all 1200 of my Address book cards to my new Treo 700P. Too complex?
I set up a new group in my Address Book and placed about 400 cards in it. I then used Address Book Exporter to export all of these records using template "Palm Desktop" onto a .txt file on my hard drive.
When I opened my Palm Desktop application and clicked on import, I first had to cause the dialogue box to show all files rather than just "readable files" in order for the exported files to be available. When I clicked on the file of 400 Address book cards that I had exported, I got the dialogue box similar to FileMaker where you have to line up the receiving fields in the Palm Desktop application with the fields in the file that Address Book Exporter created.
When I set the "fields" drop-down menu to "addresses" and set the "Delimiters" drop-down menu to "Palm Desktop", everything just lined up automatically. No futher adjustments were needed. I just clicked OK and the 400 records were transferred to my Palm Desktop Address list - ready to further transfer to my new Treo 700P - successfully.
But when I went through this exact same routine, instead exporting all of the cards in my Address book, when I got to the last step and set the two drop down menus - the "fields" drop-down menu to "addresses" and set the "Delimiters" drop-down menu to "Palm Desktop" - nothing happened. The fields in the exported file did not line up at all. The created export file I opened showed only one "superfield' with all the data in it (just as the earlier example had, at first) which would not change to all of the fields needed to line up with the Palm Desktop importing fields as had happened in the first example.
Why the two different reactions to what seems to be the same routines? Does Address Book Exporter have a cap on the size of the export it can handle?
I just don't understand it.
Steve
PowerBook G4 15 1.6 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 20" Apple Cinema Screen twinned, Safari 2.0.2, Mail 2.0.5, Address Book 4.0.3

See my reply to your post in the iSync forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9618578#9618578

How can I automatically transfer Palm address categories to Address Book?

I've tried vcal export and tab/delimited export and the categorization is lost on the Mac. I also tried setting up the same categories in AB as I have on the Palm. Again, the addresses are NOT imported with the category info.
Is there any way of avoiding having to recategorize all the addresses MANUALLY on the Mac?

if you have never synced conect your iphone and go to the info tab. Select sync contacts with addressbook and hit apply. when prompted select merge and it will merge contacts.

Can't sync address book with my palm treo 650

About a week ago, my sync stopped working for my G4 and palm treo 650. the hotsync works via bluetooth and there are no errors. When I look at my contacts and calendar, no events or contacts have been imported for the past week or so.
I downloaded the latest palm update for 650 and tiger, still nothing.
Any suggestions

Figured it out and it wasn't fun. I watched the console messages as I deleted groups and tried to sync with Mobile Me until no error msg was displayed. Then I restored AB from a back up and proceeded to delete contacts one at a time and check for errors until none were displayed. After deleting about half my contacts under the one group I finally found the one contact. I then did another AB restore, deleted the troubled contact, sync'd fine, then did another backup. I have no idea why that one contact was the problem as everything looked fine. Console msgs only showed a silly number as the contact, not the name, which is why I had to go through all this. But...it's fixed.

Contacts and categories in address book multiple duplicates

Hello; I am not talking about having one duplicate but 200-300 of a single contact or a category. So please do not redirect this on the usual sync+icloud discussions...
I have resetted my AB but today they started multiplying like rabbits again.
I noticed that on my mac and I immediately disconnected iclould: contacts on icloud have not been affected so I guess the problem is on this machine.
I also had added a new category 3 days ago and it did not show un on iCloud, so something is definetively happening here.
Only things I am doing is working on the iCloud control panel, deseletting and reselecting the contact box, deleting all the contacs on this machine and then pulling again the information from icloud.
Any suggestion on how to solve this?
Best,
Giuseppe

Try the steps I outline here: After Lion upgrade, my addressbook does not work++
Note that with iCloud (or any other address server) there is a Sources folder with subfolders for each address server source info. Those folders also contain an addressbook-v22.abcddb file that you should delete.
And, as someone recently pointed out, I originally called the file addressbook.abcddb, which it is not.

Palm to Address book

Greeetings Mac friends,
I currently keep all my contacts in Palm Tungsten T3 and Palm Desktop 4.2.1
How can I transfer all my Palm contacts to Address Book?
Also is there a way to synchronize the T3 with Address Book AND the Palm Desktop every time I do a HotSync?
Thanks.
dual G4 MDD 1.4GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You can certainly transfer your existing Palm Desktop contact records to the Address Book. Just launch the Palm Desktop and export them as vCard records using the Export… option under the File menu.
Select Module: Addresses, Items: All xxx Addresses and Format: vCard and then press the Export button.
Double-clicking on the resulting vCard file will launch the Address Book and offer you an opportunity to import these contacts.
You cannot, however, synchronize the same data type—contacts, for example—with more than one application at the same time, particularly not with iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit. While it is possible to create custom sets of non-conflicting identical data types with the Missing Sync for Palm OS, this practice can place your data at significant risk. Variations in data mapping in the conduits that synchronize such data, that fact that several releases of Palm contact applications are available, and limitation inherent in OS X applications like the Address Book can create issues involving missing fields, duplicated data and duplicated records.
I would advise you to pick a suite, and stick with it. You can choose from…
• the Palm Desktop with the standard Palm conduits and the HotSync Manager
• iCal and the Address Book using iSync, the iSync Palm Conduit and the HotSync Manager
• Mark/Space Contacts with the Address Book and Mark/Space Events and Tasks with iCal using the Missing Sync for Palm OS

Only want2use iCal+Address book with iSynch and Memos+Tasks with Palm T/X

I was using Tungsten T2 and isync happily. I was using isync to use the address book and iCal and when I synched it also synched the palm info in the Calendar and address book in my Palm desktop. The memos and tasks in Palm desktop also worked properly.
I upgraded my palm to T/X and have had many problems with deletion of categories on the handheld, duplication of task and diary entries, address entries with weird symbols added that need to be deleted, desktop memos and tasks not updating. iCal seemed to work OK but the palm desktop calendar did not display any future entries. Is this normal.
I removed isync and after resorting everything on the device - enabled all conduits for palm and resynced. So now everything seems to work properly.
My main questions are: what did I do wrong for this to happen which led to me spending hours sorting everything out on the palm device manually?
And: Is there a way to keep everything synching on the palm device AND iCal and address book for palm?
And: If not: Is there a way to use iCal and address book for mac AND keep you tasks and memos synching on the palm desktop? As I prefer the palm software for tasks as I have several categories for my tasks and do not allocate tasks on given days.
Thanks for reading and I hope to hear some quality advice from you soon. Matt

Starting with your last question about first synchronizing with the Palm Desktop calendar and then later with the Mark/Space Events conduit, the answer is no. Your first synchronization with any of the three Mark/Space conduits—whether one, a pair or the more conventional all three—requires that you overwrite the handheld with that data type using that Mark/Space conduit.
You should read this article about the limitations between the display and transfer of calendar events between Palm devices and iCal:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93172
Understanding those limitations, you should selectively 'fix' the events in iCal so that they are represented properly in iCal. You will have to live with the limitations of such event display on your Palm. If you 'fix' them on your Palm, you will only create additional issues when they are synchronized with iCal using either iSync or the Missing Sync.
Old repeating events can be 'rescheduled' in iCal by selecting the event and changing the end date, or they can be deleted, though that will result in their deletion from your Palm device. That's one reason that it is important to take that last 'snapshot' with the Palm Desktop, so that you can refer to historic data if you need to.
It's also important to think about why you would want to carry possibly hundreds of aged events around in the Palm of your hand. Realistically, why would you want handheld access to data older than say, one year? After installing the Missing Sync, you can double-click on the Mark/Space Events conduit and optionally limit the transfer of events from iCal to your handheld. You simply select the drop-down menu labeled Ignore desktop events older than: and choose from an interval of 1, 2, 4 or 8 weeks, 6 months or 1 year, instead of the default Sync All option.
That technique is another method to deal with historic data, because the 'misrepresented' events older than will not be transfered from iCal to your handheld even during that initial synchronization where your handheld data is overwritten, if you select one of those delimiters.
Mark/Space recognizes groups and categories in iCal and the Address Book when using a Palm OS 5 or later device which supports them. iSync ignores them, because groups and categories are not mapped in the iSync Palm Conduit.

Exporting address book to Palm Centro

I broke the screen on my Centro. Luckily, I had a spare a friend gave me when he bought an I-phone. I cannot figure out how to get my address book from my Palm Desktop to my new phone. I can't beam it from the other phone because the screen no longer works. Please help!!!

You'll need to erase the "new" phone with a Hard Reset first.
How to Hard Reset a Palm Centro.
Go to http://kb.palm.com and enter the number 45050 into the "Solution ID" box.
Once this is complete, perform a HotSync with the computer the data is residing on. Palm Desktop will recognize the device as blank, and will ask you: "Create a New HotSync Account, or use an Existing One?" Choose Existing, and pick your original HotSync Account name.
All the data should be copied to your "new" phone when the process is completed.
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Fields from palm won't go into Address book and vice versa

Hi there,
I'm still adapting to 10.5.5 (I was using 10.2.8 for a long time) and there are little things that throw me off.
The latest bug I've found is that any contacts I've added to my Address Book since I made the switch aren't properly being synchronized to my Palm Pilot.
For instance -- I've added a contact with name, company name, work phone, mobile phone, work email and work address to Address Book.
My palm pilot isn't getting the work address.
Any advice?

If you have selected the Address Book and iCal under the Info tab for your iPhone 3G sync preferences to sync contact info and calendars with and this is not working, try resetting the sync history on your Mac, which is done via iSync preferences with the iSync application located in your Applications folder.
Quit iTunes, the Address Book, and iCal first. Launch iSync and to to iSync preferences. After selecting reset sync history, restart your Mac and try syncing this data again.
When creating a new calendar event, there is a selection for which calendar you want to place the new event in if you have multiple calendars.
If you have multiple calendars, you can select the calendar you want to create the new event in. After launching Calendar, there is a Calendars selection at the top to view all calendars. You can select a calendar to view all entries for that calendar only and for entering a new event for that calendar. Or select All Calendars to view the events for all calendars. When creating a new event with All Calendars selected, you can choose which calendar with the new event entry.

No Categories in Address Book = none in Palm

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