Syncing Entourage with Japanese/US addresses on J Palm

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Kevin M Fitzgerald

Okay, this one is probably not too common but maybe someone can figure it
out...

I have a Clié from Japan, localized in Japanese. When I try to sync it, only
addresses in Japanese format are synced; the rest (and majority) of US-based
addresses are not transferred to the Clié (only email and phone data are).
Is there anyway around this, other than manually keying in the US addresses
on the Clié?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Okay, this one is probably not too common but maybe someone can figure it
out...

I have a Clié from Japan, localized in Japanese. When I try to sync it, only
addresses in Japanese format are synced; the rest (and majority) of US-based
addresses are not transferred to the Clié (only email and phone data are).
Is there anyway around this, other than manually keying in the US addresses
on the Clié?
Click to expand...

You could try running this script from Script Editor (in
/Applications/AppleScript/):

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set Japanese format of every contact to true
end tell


This will also have the effect of "updating" every contact in Entourage so
the next time you sync all the Entourage versions of contacts in both places
will "win". If you have a few contacts on the Clié which are more up-to-date
than the version of the same contact in Entourage, you'd better update those
few manually in Entourage before syncing.


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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Kevin M Fitzgerald

Okay, that works. Thanks. It's not as nice as I would like on my Clié (US
addresses are displayed in Japanese format, which is the exact opposite of
US, zip - state - city - street) but at least they show up.

But now I have another problem. I'm trying to move the rest of my Apple
address book over to entourage, by syncing with the isync and transferring
the address book to the Clié, and then again with the entourage conduit in
place of isync. But now, I have the same problem of US addresses not showing
up in the Clié. I know I could work around this problem by not going thru
the Clié, but I'd like to know to know to tell the apple address book to set
an address to Japanese format also anyway. I know I did it once, because one
of my US based contacts transferred thru isync, and his address does appear
on the Clié...
 
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Kevin M Fitzgerald

Nevermind; I figured it out. Address book isyncs only address listed as
"home;" setting them all to home fixed the problem!
 
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