About the data transfer assistant (dta) – Palm Pre P100EWW User Manual
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Chapter 3 : Data transfer
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to your phone, and then if you choose to, sync the data to Google or
Exchange.
1
On your computer, set up an account on the Google website (go to
) or with Microsoft Exchange (speak to an IT person at your
company).
2
Open
Contacts
on your Pre phone.
3
Enter your username and password for the Google or Exchange
account.
NOTE
You don’t have to go to Calendar to set up your account there—that’s
done automatically using the username and password you enter in Contacts.
4
To transfer data from a desktop app that you want to stop using, go to
for more information about the Data Transfer
Assistant (DTA)—it’s a free download from Palm.
About the Data Transfer Assistant (DTA)
The DTA enables you to do a one-time, one-way export of data from
selected desktop apps to your Pre phone through the USB cable included
with your phone. After the data is on your phone, you can select the account
you want to import the data to.
IMPORTANT
The DTA is not synchronization software. It is meant to be used
once per desktop app, to export your info from the desktop app to an account on
your phone.
These are the desktop apps that the DTA works with, and the data that the
DTA transfers to your phone:
Note the following:
•
Depending on the amount of data you are transferring, it can take up to an
hour to transfer data with the DTA.
•
On Vista, only Outlook 2007 is supported.
•
If you have an earlier version of Palm Desktop, you can download version
6.2.2 for free from
palm.co
tall it, sync with your old Palm
device, and then use the DTA to transfer your data.
•
Do you use Palm Desktop on the Mac? Don’t worry, you can export your
contacts, calendar events, and tasks into Address Book and iCal. Then use
the DTA to transfer your data. For more information, go to
Table 1. DTA: application data transferred
Operating
system
Desktop
application
Contacts Calendar Tasks
Memos/
notes
Windows
XP, Vista
®
,
or 7 (32bit
or 64bit)
Outlook 2003
or later
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Palm Desktop
v6.2.2
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mac OS
10.5
Address Book
Yes
iCal
Yes
Yes