You will find countless posts in this group where we list all the
information that is lost by importing.

We would have no idea whether and how your Palm synchronizes with Outlook.
You'll need to ask Palm. ActivSync is for use with Pocket PC's.

The way to transfer data from your mailbox would be to copy it to a PST file
then open that PST file in the another installation. Just make sure you
don't export or import, or you'll lose all connections again.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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Thank you for the reply. Can you please tell me where the advise against
importing is documented?

Does this mean that importing has now permanently destroyed all my
connections between my calendar and address book and there is no way to
fix it? May I suggest that we get over the issue of importing, I had
explained earlier that I had imported my data primarily because I did not
know that I can synchronize my Palm m505 with Outlook. Putting a bit of
thought into this scenario now, it is my understanding that the way to
synchronize a Palm device with Outlook is via ActiveSync. Whilst the new
Palm devices has support for ActiveSync, my old m505 does not support
this. Am I missing something here or may I safely conclude that my m505
may not be able to synchronize with Outlook?

Anyway, perhaps another 'perspective' may help as the act of importing may
be muddling the real issue. Assuming that the act of importing did not
permanently destroy connections (which is my question above), will the act
of copying new contacts from other PSTs into my mailbox establish
connections for the new contacts that are copied (this is not importing,
but simply copying between PST and mailbox). If so, will the workaround
of copying my contacts in my Mailbox to an external PST and copying them
back solve my problem?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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I know of no way and no need to report it. It's already well known and
well documented behavior and always has been in Outlook.
It's one of the reasons we always advise against importing whenever
possible.
Why you had to import is unclear to me.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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In my opinion, this is a 'bug' but would like to validate with you. If
you agree, would you know the process as to how I can report this bug
and get it fixed. If not, can you suggest a particular programming
group I can refer to?

Thanks.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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I don't know of any way to re-establish connections automatically.
There might be a way to do so with code, so you could ask in a
programming group.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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Yes, if I manually open a contact record, 'alter' the birthday field
or anything so that the system detects a change and save the record,
that particular record will have a calendar entry. However, I do not
want to do this for all of my 2000+ contacts! Is there a way or
workaround that I can employ? Can I copy the contacts into a PST and
then copy back into my mailbox contacts?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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I know of no way to do so automatically.
If you just open a Contact Record in question and save it, do the
dates not show up on the calendar then?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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To be honest, I did not know that I could synchronize my Palm device
to Outlook (I was using a Palm m505 by the way).

Anyway, since I have already done the import via CSV, is there a way
for me re-establish the 'connections' such that my contacts'
birthdays and anniversaries are shown in my Calendar? If none, can
anyone suggest a third-party software that can help me do this?


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Outlook maintains many connections among Outlook Items. That's how
it derives views like Activities, Journal, and the automatic
display of Contact's birthdays and anniversaries in the Calendar.
All connections are lost whenever you import Outlook data.
My question was why you had to import Outlook data. Palm is able to
synchronize Outlook data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"dindo fernando" wrote in message
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Sorry for not being clear. I had to export my contacts from Palm
Desktop to a CSV file, and then import the CSV file into Outlook
2003.

Can you clarify what you mean by 'connections'? Is there a
'connection' established between the calendar and address book to
reflect the birthday entries in the address book as a calendar
entry?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in
message ...
One of the many well documented limitations of importing. All
connections are lost.
Why was it necessary for you to use an intermediary format to
transfer these Contacts? Could you not synchronize them?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dindo Fernando" wrote
in message
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I've recently migrated my contacts from Palm Desktop to Outlook
2003 by first
exporting to a CSV file and then importing into Outlook. I
noticed that not
all of my contacts with entries in the birthday field showed up
in my Outlook
calendar.

My first thought was the formatting (missing year) was the
problem, so I bit
the bullet and put in the year for those contacts without year
entries for
their birthdays in the CSV files and re-imported. However this
did not fix
the problem.

Anyone have any ideas on what I did wrong or how I can fix this
problem?