Re: fargged my new LG VX11000 (enV Touch)

Andrew,

In regards to using BitPim to attempt to store your contacts to your new VX11000, and no longer being able to save contacts in your LG-VX11000-  EnV-Touch.

I do not know if you still have your vx11000, but here is something to try. It worked for me.

First, we should have saved the file tree prior to mucking around. We didn't so we hosed ourselves. Our bad!

Now here is what I did. I also tried to save my 430 contacts to my new vx11000 using BitPim so I wouldn't have to do it another way. I just couldn't wait to use Contact Assistant ... (Stupid Stupid Stupid). Problem, contacts hosed. I could not save my contacts to my phone after that. I started looking around and started looking through the Bitpim code and found where the contact information is saved in the file system on the phone. I checked these files and found my information had been saved to the phone. I suspect that the 4 contacts that we can still see are actually saved in a different file that the one we overwrote.
Phone files are stored under "pim/..." (Personal Information Manager). I found the files associated with my changes and backed them up then erased them. ( I sorted by date to help). I restarted my phone and walla... all was good in the work=ld again. The phone recreated these files to their defaults as I suspected they would.
Here are the files I deleted:

/pim/pbaddress.dat
pim/pbspeed.dat
pim/pbPictureIdSetAsPath.dat
pim/pbentry.dat
pim/pbgroup.dat

Your mileage may vary, and you should do this at your own risk always backing up the files first. All I can say is that I will sleep better tonight knowing I didn't just brick my contact list!

Jim

The basic problem is that since the EnV-Touch has new additional information in its contacts, address, etc., the file structure is different... among other things. I hope someone with a little more time, and knowledge of Python than I do. I could muddle around, but it would take more time than I have.