My recipe for migrating from Treo/PalmDesktop/WinXP to iPhone/Mozilla/Google/Skype/multi-OS

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Sunbird-Google sync

Export from Palm Desktop
  • contacts as .vcf
  • calendar as .dba

into Yahoo Contacts (does total match source?)

  • import .vcf
  • export .cvs

into Yahoo Calendar

  • import .dba
  • export .cvs

into Google Contacts (does total match source?)

into Google Calendar (Settings, Calendar, Import)

Desktop:

Calendars:

Teaching:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k304i0j56sb2jvt843imd5noh4@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Rentals:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ecdhb1t6v3armu4ofqgkds6bk8@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Resources:

Google Sync
  • First attempt (July 5): Overwrite handheld (implying deprecation of iTunes sych for pure Google Sync instead?)
Sync'ing Google with OSX Address Book:
# defaults write /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Resources/ClientDescription Type 'server'
# chmod 644 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Resources/ClientDescription.plist

Phone:

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