contacts to sd card

[Guest andylad]

please someone tell me the easy way to do this via activesinc my phones going back to orange so i just want to save them all

cheers

[Guest gpcarreon (MVP)]

Hi. ^_^

I think SP Studio can export phone memory and SIM card contacts.

Try it, download SP Studio from airfagev:

http://www.airfagev.com/apps/SPStudio.zip

[Guest pierre]

Is it possible to move all contacts and store them on Storage Card, instead of Storage? (I got 1600+ of them!)

[Guest chucky.egg]

If you are using Outlook you could try this.

Stick the following code into a new Outlook macro, put in the name of your mailbox, and run it.

You should get all your contacts as VCF files in C:/VCFs, which you can then copy to your new phone and import them (click on them to Import them on a Smartphone)

Sub Export_PAB_to_vcfs()

Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application

Dim objContact As ContactItem

Set myOlApp = New Outlook.Application

Set objAddressList = myOlApp.Session.AddressLists("Contacts")

Set olNS = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")


'*** Change the bit in quotes on this line to match your Mailbox ***

Set myMailbox = olNS.Folders("Mailbox - Egg, Chucky")

Set myContacts = myMailbox.Folders("Contacts")


' Get the number of items in the folder.

NumItems = myContacts.Items.Count


' Loop through all of the items in the folder.

For i = 1 To NumItems

   Set objContact = myContacts.Items(i)

   If Not TypeName(objContact) = "Nothing" Then

       If Not objContact.FullName = "" Then

           strName = "C:\VCFs\" & objContact.FullName & ".vcf"

           objContact.SaveAs strName, olVCard

       End If

   End If

Next


MsgBox "All Contacts Exported!"


End Sub

This process seems to take about 0.5 seconds per contact, so it can take time if you have loads of contacts!

Edited April 11, 2005 by chucky.egg

[Guest chucky.egg]

Ah, sorry, I forgot...

If you copy contacts to the SIM you generally only get the name (often abbreviated I think) and one number.

[Guest pierre]

I only want to send them to the SD (not to the SIM) Hmm, this process sounds a little complicated to me. Let's assume I give it a try, will the contacts still be available the same (from the contact' menu) ?

[Guest chucky.egg]

Er, NO, sorry - I thought you wanted to transfer them from the phone

The code will create a "backup" of every contact, but they will not appear in your contacts list.

AFAIK there is no way to store your contacts anywhere else, whilst keeping them "online".

The only thing I can think of is finding the contacts database, copying it to your SD card, and replacing the original one with a shortcut. make sure yo take a backup first though!