Problem with Pocket PC sync

[Guest]

I am using My Outlook 2003 contacts and I have sub folders such as Personal,
Business, Technical etc. Unless the contacts in the main Contacts folder it
will not sync with My HP 4700 series pocket PC with Pocket PC 2003 Premium
w/Outlook 2002. Can anyone help me with this issue? I guess I could move
everything to main Contacts Folder and use it that way but that it will make
it very inconvinient since I have about 10 sub folders. Thanks

 

[Mark R Penn]

Activesync will only sync with the main folder - there is no way to make it
do otherwise - because you can't have folders within contacts on the PPC.

You can either move all the contacts to the main folder, and then use
categories to keep them organised, or can buy Pocket Mirror Pro (Google it),
which will keep them all in folders on the desktop, but use categories
(named after the folders) on the PPC. Pocket Mirror is quite expensive
though.

Mark

 

[Guest]

Mark, Thanks a lot, That answers my question but Can you tell me how to use
the categories to do what I am trying to do? I am somewhat familier with it
but not indepth. I used to use Palm so I am familier with that.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Mark, Thanks a lot, That answers my question but Can you tell me how
to use the categories to do what I am trying to do?

Create a category that corresponds to each of the groupings you associated
with your subfolders and assign those categories to the appropriate
contacts. Then you can use the By Category view to show your contacts in
groups.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Just to make sure that I understand correctly, So keep all contacts
in the Main Contacts folder but give them categories and than view by
categories on contacts folder in their own groups? Correct ?
Thanks Again Brian!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks, Just to make sure that I understand correctly, So keep all
contacts in the Main Contacts folder but give them categories and
than view by categories on contacts folder in their own groups?
Correct ?

Yes, you keep everything in your mail Contacts folder and use categories
instead of subfolders. You can create categories that make sense to you.

 

[Mark R Penn]

Remember also that you can have as many categories per contact as you want,
which in many ways makes it better than using folders because a contact in
both business and personal (for example) will automatically be up to date in
both, whereas in folders you'd have to maintain the same contact twice -
once in each folder.

On the PPC you can use filters to keep the contacts separate, just as you
can in Outlook

Mark

 

[Guest]

Thanks

Remember also that you can have as many categories per contact as you want,
which in many ways makes it better than using folders because a contact in
both business and personal (for example) will automatically be up to date in
both, whereas in folders you'd have to maintain the same contact twice -
once in each folder.

On the PPC you can use filters to keep the contacts separate, just as you
can in Outlook

Mark