Synching contacts - two folders, but only one required

[Guest C500pete]

Hi all,

I've just purchased the C500 and I can get it to synch with Outlook 2002 contacts no problem.

My question is though, my wife also has a C500, and we share the same Outlook 2002 account. If I create a sub folder off of the Contacts root, one for her contacts, one for mine, how can I specify to ActiveSynch which folder I want to synch, depending on which phone is connected?

Thanks,

Pete

[Guest fozzie]

I'm not sure you can? Wouldn't you be better just having two seperate Outlook accounts?

[Guest C500pete]

yes. probably would. so you can guess my next question. how?

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest fozzie]

It depends on your OS. Mine is XP and so you just create a new account/login and set up Outlook again for that person. The Outlook instances remain independent :)

[Guest fozzie]

Another way to do it is using Profiles. You can set up multiple Outlook profiles and when Outlook is fired up, it asks which profile you want to use. This is how you would do it for Outlook 2003:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistan...2423821033.aspx

An explanation of profiles is here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistan...1471581033.aspx

[Guest Dr Who]

I *think* you can specify which folders you wish to sync - although don't quote me on that. When I was having activesync problems I came across a setting which allowed me to choose which folders I wanted to synchronise, although my memory is a bit hazy as to where and exactly whether that was what it was.

[Guest fozzie]

Folders for files, not for contacts!

[Guest Dr Who]

Nope, it was definitely the Outlook folders. The list had the directory structure of the Outlook folders, i.e. Inbox, Outbox, Contacts, etc but you could expand it to see the personal folders I have created and I vaguely remember a function to check or uncheck the folders.