Phone to Outlook 2003 sync question

[damadhatter]

So I was working on my friends phone and something quite odd happened. Somehow Outlook deleted all of his contacts when doing a sync. All of the contacts are still on the cell phone though ( 2000+ contacts) Is there a way I can sync these back into Outlook? ActiveSync wont work, its saying I need to do a manual sync and giving a error message (I will post it later) I was able to get the pim.vol file off of the phone. Can I convert that into something to import into Outlook?

[n99hockey]

the pim.vol file can not be translated in to anything outlook can read

[L0c0]

Try deleting the partnership in ActiveSync and recreating it. that should let you resync and restore any data from outlook.

[damadhatter]

Originally Posted by L0c0

Try deleting the partnership in ActiveSync and recreating it. that should let you resync and restore any data from outlook.

I am looking to restore my address book on my phone into Outlook

[L0c0]

Originally Posted by damadhatter

I am looking to restore my address book on my phone into Outlook

I believe the default is to "Sync" not overwrite anything so it should work the same. If you're not sure, when you setup a new partnership configure it to Sync so it won't over write anything.

is there anything else that is configured to sync? [files,email,tasks] do they sync ok?

[damadhatter]

Originally Posted by L0c0

I believe the default is to "Sync" not overwrite anything so it should work the same. If you're not sure, when you setup a new partnership configure it to Sync so it won't over write anything.

is there anything else that is configured to sync? [files,email,tasks] do they sync ok?

I cannot get anything to sync. Is there any 3rd party programs that will allow me to sync my phone to Outlook, or extract address book from my phone?

[L0c0]

Originally Posted by L0c0

Try deleting the partnership in ActiveSync and recreating it. that should let you resync and restore any data from/to outlook.

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outlook sync's best with outlook (microNopoly)


or copy the pim.vol off your phone and do a hard reset then attempt to sync again. after you get the partnership to work copy the pim.vol(addressbook) back to the phone and bam! bob's your uncle!

[damadhatter]

Originally Posted by L0c0

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

outlook sync's best with outlook (microNopoly)


or copy the pim.vol off your phone and do a hard reset then attempt to sync again. after you get the partnership to work copy the pim.vol(addressbook) back to the phone and bam! bob's your uncle!

Ok I am going to give that a try! Thank you! I will keep you posted.

[damadhatter]

It will not allow me to copy the pim.vol and overwrite the existing one, any ideas?

[damadhatter]

So I wiped the phone, copied the pim back and all of the contacts are on the phone. I was able to do a sync before copying the pim back and the 3 test contacts went across. With the new pim installed, now the phone gives the following error when sync'ing and will not sync the contacts error code "Support Code 8600050d"