Finally, I’ve managed to migrate my list of contacts from my smartphone to my new new toy. It was more of a hack, really. My default, I sync my smartphone’s data to Lotus Organizer. However, the other software, Qtopia desktop can’t sync to Organizer. Well, apparently the Qtopia desktop stores it’s data in the human readable XML format, which I just discovered. Which is good. Thankfully, Lotus Organizer is able to export my addressbook entries into a text format, comma separated, of course. So, all I had to do then, was to rename it into a CSV file and presto, instant importing into Excel. From there, it’s only a matter of time, in order to insert the necessary fields and trying to follow as closely the structure of the original XML file. Afterwords, I fireed up Notepad++ and with the search and replace function, I removed all the unnecessary double quotes. Then, all I have to do is to copy the entries and paste them into the new XML file and sync them back. It worked! To a point. Somehow, I think I missed out the small details of the field designators, as the e-mails somehow got lost. I guess I’ll have to do the process again, but at least it’s so much easier compared to beaming them via IR from my phone.

It’s a start!