At the moment, I've got about 3500 contacts in Outlook and I doubt they'll fit on the 9500's internal memory. Is it possible to put them on an MMC card and have the phone read them from there instead?
Thanks.
Contacts from MMC
Any ideas?
I'm sure there is a way of moving the default contacts db to the memory card, but the meathod escapes me for the moment.
You can also create a new contacts database in the contacts application, and that is created on the memory card.
But is there any way of having the synchronisation send the contacts from Outlook to the memory card?
No idea how to sync to a second contracts db on the mmc, I don't use windows.
But I've just realised several things: 3500 contacts. On my 9500, each contract takes up less than 1kb, so 3500 contacts will take up less than 3.5Mb, which will fit happily onto the internal memory. Even if you contacts are larger. (This, of course is based on the idea that you have 3.5Mb free on you internal memory).
Secondly, do you really need to have all 3500 contacts? That is alot, and it is likely to be slow to search that many even if you where to to stick to basic searches.
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ktabic wrote:No idea how to sync to a second contracts db on the mmc, I don't use windows.But I've just realised several things: 3500 contacts. On my 9500, each contract takes up less than 1kb, so 3500 contacts will take up less than 3.5Mb, which will fit happily onto the internal memory. Even if you contacts are larger. (This, of course is based on the idea that you have 3.5Mb free on you internal memory).
Secondly, do you really need to have all 3500 contacts? That is alot, and it is likely to be slow to search that many even if you where to to stick to basic searches.
I have 1658 contacts and the file is 717KB, so there should be no problem storing 3500 contacts should be no problem. Searching my 1600 contacts is painfully slow, so 3500 will be worse. I don't use Windows and my 1600 contacts are business contacts I have built over the years, going back to my Series 5 days. I get a kick out of comments like, "Why do you need X contacts?" What do you propose that I do? Randomly delete contacts? Set my old list aside and start over?
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I have 1658 contacts and the file is 717KB, so there should be no problem storing 3500 contacts should be no problem. Searching my 1600 contacts is painfully slow, so 3500 will be worse. I don't use Windows and my 1600 contacts are business contacts I have built over the years, going back to my Series 5 days. I get a kick out of comments like, "Why do you need X contacts?" What do you propose that I do? Randomly delete contacts? Set my old list aside and start over?
So, why do you need 1658 contacts? 😉
Seriously, why? Do you call them everyday? Do they call you every day? I'd hate to be stuck on the phone for that long every day. How many of them do you use in a year?
So no, you don't delete them at random, you remove the ones that you haven't used in, say, six months (a value that works for me), and everyone else gets removed from contacts, after copying their details, say, to sheet (or Yellows data.)
It is a nightmare at first. I remember going from the series 3c to a 5, and moving half the contacts to sheet. And I didn't have a third of what you have (still don't, sheet included).
The advice I gave Mr Kripling is based on the fact he uses Windows and Outlook (and on that subject, does his Outlook use Exchange? If so, does it work reliably? Been having some problems with palms and outlook/exchange at work recently, and want to know if the nokia sync stuff works better than palms), and becuase he uses Outlook, I'm guessing he can filter what contacts based on category (and if not nokia needs to do some work on the sync program).
For you and me, that isn't an option (I've never bothered trying to sync contacts between 9500 and linux, and if I did want to, I'd be trying to write a contacts program for linux myself, I change mailer to often to bother with using their contacts programs...), so we have to look to something that exists on the 9500. Sheet is already there, and only required minor modifications between psion/commie version.
Mr Kripling wrote:I've got about 3500 contacts in Outlook and I doubt they'll fit on the 9500's internal memory.
They will. Provided they are not pretty fat they can occupy about 2MB, in your case.
Mr Kripling wrote:Is it possible to put them on an MMC card and have the phone read them from there instead?
Yes, but it is not a good idea, for several reasons (slow searching, long scrolling, etc.). Do it in this way:
Sync all contacts from Outlook to the Communicator's default database. Then create secondary database(s) on the memory card. Think over which contacts are "active" (=people that use to call in) and which "inactive" (=contacts that you only call out, and not much often). Move those inactive contacts into the secondary database(s). You will always easily find them in the case you'd like to call them, and, as they don't call you in, you won't mind that the secondary contacts are not recognized in incoming call. But have in mind that, in this contacts management way, you can sync only primary contacts database, and one-way only (N9500 -> Outlook) and not in both direction (unless you divide them in the Outlook in the same way). You'll guess why.