I am about to cry.

[jourabchid]

is it possible to have it save contacts to desktop like in active sync but in vista with the mobile device center...its totally different then the aboved steps...

[toviaheli]

Outlook is a most suckalishious monstrosity. after years of living contact hell (totally unrelated contacts being combined, mysteriously missing, doubled or trippled), on multiple pc's, i finally quit using outlook for syncing contacts. I now use a PIM Backup program (free). I alo heard great things about Plaxo.com. After several years of using their service, i purchased the pro account whiicb allows u to sync contacts over the air. It also syncs with your other email accounts, as you choose and set them up using a very simple interface.

it is such a painless process now to update, maintain and restore contacts with these two very dendable options.

[itsall_cooool]

The Op Is A Potty Mouth!

[itsall_cooool]

and by the way, he should be angry at him/her self, not his phone, because his Outlook was set to update the connected device from the pc. A simple step or two and he could have had the device update the desktop.

DOHHHHHH

[otacon72]

I just use Outlook... but once and a while I will export my contact list just to have a backup. I know there are 1,000 different programs for backing up, etc but I'd rather just do it the "manual" way...

"device update the desktop"... yup.. made sure mine was setup like that before I connected the Activesync Beast....

[saltytostitos]

Originally Posted by fumanchu182

Went over to XDA did some research:

PIM BACKUP FTMFW!

http://www.dotfred.net/

get ANY kind of backup! i use spb.

[okashira]

Originally Posted by fumanchu182

This is just straight up bullshit. So now that I have restored the contacts I wanted to unclick contacts on the settings and it says it wants to delete all my contacts on the phone. So I cancel. Is there no way of disabling this I don't want to click OK. Also if I delete the device when I re establish a new connection fucking ActiveSync deletes my address book. Is there a way to backup outlook files without using this piece of shit software?

ts

Yes, activesync sucks. I noticed it will delete contacts if you don't do things in the right order (and this order is certaintly not defined in the instructions!) what a horribly designed sync software. deleting, rather then copying when a new connection is made is somthing sync software should NEVER do (and, with careful programming, this is possible!)

active sync = garbage

did I mention activesync is also slow as shit and annoying as hell?

/rant

[jourabchid]

so is it possible to sync to desktop and save on desktop in vista like it is in xp? why did they have to totally rework active sync into wmdc and lose functionality