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Posted by ERE on February 20, 2006, 1:08 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks Sven. I appreciate your help. I'll give that a try.
Dan
> You got me about what they were thinking. Only two work arounds I could
> imagine. One is to see if one of the AS enhancements/replacements like
> Intellisync can help. I don't even know if they have support for WM5 yet
> though. The second is to take advantage of an issue that folks have been
> wanting to have fixed for some time. AS still doesn't sync subfolders. You
> could make a folder in contacts and put everything in there you don't want
> to sync. Anything remaining in the root of contacts does get sync'd. If
> that is your primary list, might even clean up the desktop a bit. Best I
> can offer. Don't hold your breath on a fix, i.e. function restoral. I
> don't have any special insight, just a gut feel.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP - Mobile Devices
>> Thanks Sven,
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that feature's currently gone. I assume it's going to
>> be restored in AS4.2. To me that's a huge defect. It seems to me it's
>> probably a very common thing to want only a small subset of your contacts
>> on your mobile device.
>>
>> What is the suggested work-around until this is fixed? Clearly I can't
>> delete all the unwanted contacts each time I grab my cell phone out of
>> the cradle on my way out the door. What were they thinking?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>>> Nope. That feature is gone in AS4.x Have to use that for WM5 though.
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>>> --
>>> Sven
>>> MVP - Mobile Devices
>>>> I've been using Windows Mobile 2003 on my smartphone, and was able to
>>>> select which categories of Contacts to syncronize from Microsoft
>>>> Outlook. I've just moved to WM5.0 on my smartphone, and now it just
>>>> downloads ALL my contacts. When I right click on Contacts in
>>>> ActiveSync, "Settings..." is greyed out. Is there some way I can
>>>> select which contacts to syncronize? I'm using ActiveSync 4.1
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dan
>>>>
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