Migrate your Palm Pre profile contacts to Google Contacts for Free - Page 3

QuarlesLT · 01/09/2010, 07:27 PM

Every time I try to run delete_contacts.sql I get many lines that end with "DELETE: not found". Any help would be appreciated

titus98 · 01/16/2010, 08:17 PM

Sounds like the app you are working on is still buggy, and the guy who developed the other backup is charging $5 for it, which I object to on principle.

Thankfully, I was able to modify this script to just get my Facebook & local contacts exported to csv (and learned a bunch about shell scripts in the process). Just wanted to say thanks.

skidmark · 01/17/2010, 12:29 PM

Just out of curiosity why do you object to his $5 charge?

titus98 · 01/17/2010, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skidmark

Just out of curiosity why do you object to his $5 charge?

Eh, his code went from bounty paid to a suggested donation to a required fee. He has the right to do whatever he wants with his code, his justification for it just seems sketchy to me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xybyre

However, keep in mind that I did not intend to really make money off of the tool. It was more to offset my time and effort. If I really wanted to charge what I feel the tool is worth, it would be at least double the nominal cost I currently give it away for.

I'm not paying someone $5 who feels this way, especially when more altruistic individuals have provided free options that give me an opportunity to learn a little more about Linux and my Pre.

fruitbag · 09/15/2010, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuarlesLT

Every time I try to run delete_contacts.sql I get many lines that end with "DELETE: not found". Any help would be appreciated

Run the following from /var/luna/data/dbdata:
sqlite3 PalmDatabase.db3 < workspace/delete_contacts.sql

red5hark · 09/24/2010, 07:29 PM

Hi all,

Have been using Google to do all this for me since I lost the will to live when the Palm Profile (cloud) lost my information for a second time, having not a great deal of knowledge about the syncing of accounts etc, I just emailed all my contacts vcards to myself and imported them into Google with a "2" added to the name of every contact just so I could tell the difference when syncing and Google did the rest.

Just having had to rely on Google for my changover to a Palm Pre Plus after my old Palm Pre went through a repair grinder...cant praise Google enough...took around two minutes to get all my contacts back after adding my gmail account on my new phone, and thats ALL the info including bdays/nicknames/email adresses/url's.

Palm should feel ashamed there is no proper contacts management of our cloud right on the phone and the option to sync and check what we want.

What I would also like to see is a little more on phone contacts management between SIM/Phone/Profiles ie.

Delete all contacts
Move all contacts

yknow like Nokia was doing about 5 years ago...

Red

danlash · 02/16/2011, 10:35 PM

Wasn't impressed with Pre3 so I'm outie to Android ... this script worked great but I had to hassle with it: didn't have perl on device so just copied the database locally and ran a modified version of the scripts there.

Linked contacts is web os's best feature - too bad it's best use for exporting them to your next platform.

01/09/2010, 07:27 PM	#41 (permalink)
QuarlesLT Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Richmond, VA Posts: 718 Likes Received: 2 Thanks: 106 Thanked 174 Times in 60 Posts	Every time I try to run delete_contacts.sql I get many lines that end with "DELETE: not found". Any help would be appreciated
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titus98 Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 6 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks for this script Sounds like the app you are working on is still buggy, and the guy who developed the other backup is charging $5 for it, which I object to on principle. Thankfully, I was able to modify this script to just get my Facebook & local contacts exported to csv (and learned a bunch about shell scripts in the process). Just wanted to say thanks.
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01/17/2010, 12:29 PM	#43 (permalink)
skidmark Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 217 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 49 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts	Just out of curiosity why do you object to his $5 charge?
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09/24/2010, 07:29 PM	#46 (permalink)
red5hark Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 6 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hi all, Have been using Google to do all this for me since I lost the will to live when the Palm Profile (cloud) lost my information for a second time, having not a great deal of knowledge about the syncing of accounts etc, I just emailed all my contacts vcards to myself and imported them into Google with a "2" added to the name of every contact just so I could tell the difference when syncing and Google did the rest. Just having had to rely on Google for my changover to a Palm Pre Plus after my old Palm Pre went through a repair grinder...cant praise Google enough...took around two minutes to get all my contacts back after adding my gmail account on my new phone, and thats ALL the info including bdays/nicknames/email adresses/url's. Palm should feel ashamed there is no proper contacts management of our cloud right on the phone and the option to sync and check what we want. What I would also like to see is a little more on phone contacts management between SIM/Phone/Profiles ie. Delete all contacts Move all contacts yknow like Nokia was doing about 5 years ago... Red
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02/16/2011, 10:35 PM	#47 (permalink)
danlash Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Wasn't impressed with Pre3 so I'm outie to Android ... this script worked great but I had to hassle with it: didn't have perl on device so just copied the database locally and ran a modified version of the scripts there. Linked contacts is web os's best feature - too bad it's best use for exporting them to your next platform.
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