Transfering contact numbers from one PC suite to another

Hi

I have the contact numbers in my old 7650 phone backed up using PC suite
to my computer. I no longer have the phone as it was stolen.

I now need to transfer the contact phone numbers to my new 6820.

The PC suite that comes with it does not have a clue how to do this. Or I
dont.

There is a facility to import data from the 7650 but it seems
to want you to to still have the phone.

I can t be the only person who is in this situaiton. How do I do it.

Anybody?

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Keith.
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:09:32 +0100, "Keith F"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I can t be the only person who is in this situaiton. How do I do it.

No, you're not! Same situation here, some months ago. I did following
but perhaps somebody has a better idea:

- open your old backup files in excel. PC Suite Ver. 5 saved the
contacts in a kind of CSV-file.
- open the Phone Editor of PC Suite Ver. 6 and connect the phone with
the PC suite.
- copy/paste each name and each number from excel to the phone editor
and add there a new contact for each phonebook entry.

I know - it takes some time and it's a really silly work! But it's
much better than typing all names and numbers completely new. I want
to kick all asses of all Nokia PC Suite-Developer for changing their
backupfile format!!

Jens

Currumba! Well it should work and thanks but I thought Nokia were the King
of usability testing!

There clearly not that fussed about making the software any good. Haven't
they heard, these PC things are catching on...

Keith

"Jens Hoerburger"
<jens@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com>
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:09:32 +0100, "Keith F"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I can t be the only person who is in this situaiton. How do I do it.
>
> No, you're not! Same situation here, some months ago. I did following
> but perhaps somebody has a better idea:
>
> - open your old backup files in excel. PC Suite Ver. 5 saved the
> contacts in a kind of CSV-file.
> - open the Phone Editor of PC Suite Ver. 6 and connect the phone with
> the PC suite.
> - copy/paste each name and each number from excel to the phone editor
> and add there a new contact for each phonebook entry.
>
> I know - it takes some time and it's a really silly work! But it's
> much better than typing all names and numbers completely new. I want
> to kick all asses of all Nokia PC Suite-Developer for changing their
> backupfile format!!
>
> Jens

Tried Excel to open back up files.

Well it did not work.

All the stuff seemed to be in file 281.dat which is about 260k in size.
Excel could make no sense of it (Excel ofice XP). I looked at it thorugh
textpad and it comes out as special characters.

Maybe I had a different version of PC suite. I would have got it off the
Nokia site in March or so 2004. Maybe slightly earlier.

Stummped now!

Keith



"Zen News" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Currumba! Well it should work and thanks but I thought Nokia were the King
> of usability testing!
>
> There clearly not that fussed about making the software any good. Haven't
> they heard, these PC things are catching on...
>
> Keith
>
> "Jens Hoerburger"
> <jens@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com>
> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:09:32 +0100, "Keith F"
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >I can t be the only person who is in this situaiton. How do I do it.
> >
> > No, you're not! Same situation here, some months ago. I did following
> > but perhaps somebody has a better idea:
> >
> > - open your old backup files in excel. PC Suite Ver. 5 saved the
> > contacts in a kind of CSV-file.
> > - open the Phone Editor of PC Suite Ver. 6 and connect the phone with
> > the PC suite.
> > - copy/paste each name and each number from excel to the phone editor
> > and add there a new contact for each phonebook entry.
> >
> > I know - it takes some time and it's a really silly work! But it's
> > much better than typing all names and numbers completely new. I want
> > to kick all asses of all Nokia PC Suite-Developer for changing their
> > backupfile format!!
> >
> > Jens
>
>

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:39:33 +0100, "Keith F"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Tried Excel to open back up files.
>All the stuff seemed to be in file 281.dat which is about 260k in size.
>Excel could make no sense of it (Excel ofice XP). I looked at it thorugh
>textpad and it comes out as special characters.

Bad, bad news! Are you sure you've opened the backup files from the
Version 5 of the PC Suite? Since I've deleted all my old backup files
I can't verify your filename but I thought there were some .ncc files
or something like that.

>Maybe I had a different version of PC suite. I would have got it off the
>Nokia site in March or so 2004. Maybe slightly earlier.

Hmmm, wasn't that even the version 6 of the PC Suite? And now you
can't open these files?

bye jens

HI

My problem is that due to problems with the laptop in question (its just
about to die, avoid Vaio's) I have uninstalled the two PC suites.

I suppose I could install one agian but which one :-)

Does the current V 6 have .dat files in the backup bit?

Keith
"Jens Hoerburger"
<jens@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com>
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:39:33 +0100, "Keith F"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Tried Excel to open back up files.
> >All the stuff seemed to be in file 281.dat which is about 260k in size.
> >Excel could make no sense of it (Excel ofice XP). I looked at it thorugh
> >textpad and it comes out as special characters.
>
> Bad, bad news! Are you sure you've opened the backup files from the
> Version 5 of the PC Suite? Since I've deleted all my old backup files
> I can't verify your filename but I thought there were some .ncc files
> or something like that.
>
> >Maybe I had a different version of PC suite. I would have got it off the
> >Nokia site in March or so 2004. Maybe slightly earlier.
>
> Hmmm, wasn't that even the version 6 of the PC Suite? And now you
> can't open these files?
>
> bye jens

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:08:09 +0100, "Keith F"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Does the current V 6 have .dat files in the backup bit?

My backups lie in c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Eigene
Dateien\Sicherungsdateien (*) and it's .nfb-files.

*) German OS. The english translation could be:
\Dokuments and Settings\Administrator\My Files\Backup Files

The nfb-Files are unicode-Files in a propriete format. I can't do
anything with them...

Jens

Well have just reinstalled PC suite for the Nokia 7650 from the Nokia site.

When run it refuses to start without being able to connect to the phone. The
phone that I no longer have that is.

This is real rubish.

So we are busy entering new numbers all the time into our phones. We
carefully use the backup facility in the software. Not as often as we should
but sometimes. When we loose it we have no acces to the numbers and we have
to start all over again.

This sucks.

I'm off to look at Ericsons

Keith

"Jens Hoerburger"
<jens@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com>
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:08:09 +0100, "Keith F"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Does the current V 6 have .dat files in the backup bit?
>
> My backups lie in c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Eigene
> Dateien\Sicherungsdateien (*) and it's .nfb-files.
>
> *) German OS. The english translation could be:
> \Dokuments and Settings\Administrator\My Files\Backup Files
>
> The nfb-Files are unicode-Files in a propriete format. I can't do
> anything with them...
>
> Jens