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Here's a crude workaround you can use for Address Book. It is doable for a couple of entries, but not for my 400+ addresses!

In Address Book:

Select a vCard
Choose "Send This Card..." from the "Card" menu
Pick your P990 from the list of BlueTooth devices

When you get "Beam received" in your P990:

Choose "Save"
Open "Messaging" and you should have a new entry in your inbox
View the new message
Choose "Save"
And finally you can delete the message

You'll now have the vCard in "Contacts" on the P990. If you update the vCard on your P990, it is easier to send the vCard back to your Mac. Just select the card, choose "Send as" in the menu and pick your Mac. Now you get prompted "Incomming file transfer", and then that the card is a duplicate. Unless you are sure that you want the vCard updated, you can select "View" to see the updated vCard.

Note that you can send multiple vCards from the P990 to your Mac, this makes it easier to keep Address Book updated.

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Comments:

I just loaded over 500 contacts using this method. I sent groups of up to 70 cards at a time. It worked great. Unfortunately, until we get an isync plugin, I will now have to use the Outlook version of my contact list that I downloaded from my P990.

Posted by Randy Randy on August 24, 2006 at 01:09 PM PDT #

I sent 396 contacts in one fell swoop using select all -> send cards. Worked like a charm - except no pictures were exported... :-P

Posted by Johan Lehmann on August 25, 2006 at 03:30 AM PDT #

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