Do you have any troubles with other kinds of documents that you email
to your Mac from your pc?
If so your pc's email program may be mangling the attachment so that OS
9.1 cannot read it correctly. Try some of the other methods for
attachments (bin-hex, binary, etc.)
I seem to recall that in OS 9.1, Apple did not have very much of the
MacLinkPlus file type translators built in to the OS like they do in
the later systems.
What happens when you export only one vcard and send it?
Also do you have MacLinkPlus? If so, have you tried to use it to
translate the file?
Jerry
On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Ann Richmond wrote:
> Well I am completely stumped----again.
>
> After your several excellent advice about how to get my palm addresses
> etc from my work pc (Windows 2000) into my husband's Titanium
> powerbook, I decided to try moving it from the pc to my 9600 Mac
> running OS9.1.
> My pda is dead and I didn't want to spend the money to get another one
> just to move this stuff with.
>
> So...
> I downloaded Palm 4 for Mac to the 9600 and it seems to be very happy.
> I downloaded Palm 4 for the pc and it seems to work fine and did not
> lose any of my data. (Whew!)
> Thinking that success couldn't be far away I located the import/export
> instructions, which seem simple enough for a baby to follow.
> I have done what they instruct on both Mac and pc ends several times
> and nothing happens.
>
> vcard method
> on pc.
> Select all in the address window.
> choose export as vcard. save to desktop on pc.
> email file to self at 9600.
> email received. vcard saved to desktop on 9600. (All is well so far
> but here is the problem)
> The Mac instructions for importing vcards say to "drag the vcard file
> onto the address book". I have done this every way I can think of and
> it just slides back where it was on the desktop.
> I have also tried the import command from the file menu. The error box
> says that vcard is not a readable file.
>
> Then I tried dragging the vcard icon on the desktop over the Palm icon
> on the desktop. Palm opened and the error box says "the file is an
> unreadable format."
>
> Can anyone point out what I might be screwing up?
>
> Thanks as always,
> Ann
>
>
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