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same contacts same device different size

1 replies · 2,300 views · Started 06 February 2002

okay, heres a detailed story of what happened...i click the contacts button, contacts appear,i click menu button and click properties and database properties of the device appears, it says 37 kb. i close the contacts and click the extras button then click control panelthen click memory, it shows device memory, then i go to contacts and it says 48 kb. you see, both contacts info on the same device but different size. explanations anyone?

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On 2002-02-06 1649, Boozer wrote
okay, heres a detailed story of what happened...i click the contacts button, contacts appear,i click menu button and click properties and database properties of the device appears, it says 37 kb. i close the contacts and click the extras button then click control panelthen click memory, it shows device memory, then i go to contacts and it says 48 kb. you see, both contacts info on the same device but different size. explanations anyone?
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Yes - Nokia are mad.

Not sure, maybe the Contacts version is amount of memory used by contacts, where as the very misnamed memory app actually tells you file size. Or maybe I don't really know as on my 9210 both contacts app and memory app report the contacts directory as 53kb each.