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Chapter 5 : Copy files and sync your personal data
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 HP Pre
3
through the USB cable included
with your smartphone. After the data is on your smartphone, you can
select the account you want to import the data to.
IMPORTANT
The DTA is not synchronisation software. It is meant to be used
once per desktop app to export your info from the desktop app to an account
on your smartphone.
These are the desktop apps that the DTA works with and the data that the
DTA transfers to your smartphone:
Note the following:
•
If you use a desktop organiser that is not listed in the table, go to
hpwebos.com/migrate-webOS
and click the link for transferring
Contacts/Calendar data from "somewhere else".
•
Depending on the amount of data you are transferring, it can take up to
an hour to complete the transfer of your data.
•
Do not use the DTA to transfer data from a copy of Outlook that is
associated with Exchange ActiveSync, which wirelessly syncs data
between your smartphone and an Exchange server (see
Manage online
accounts
).
•
The DTA is compatible with Palm Desktop versions 4.14e, 4.2, 6.2 and
6.22. If your version of Palm Desktop is not one of these, you can
download version 6.2 for free from
hpwebos.com/desktop
. Install it,
sync with your old Palm device and then use the DTA to transfer your
data.
•
If you use Palm Desktop on the Mac, you can export your contacts,
calendar events and To do items into Address Book and iCal. Then use
the DTA to transfer your data. For more information, go to
hpwebos.com/migrate-webOS
.
NOTE
You cannot use the DTA to transfer Calendar and Contacts to a Yahoo!
account. Instead, you must use the upload tool provided by Yahoo!. Data is
transferred from your computer to Yahoo.com, and then from Yahoo.com to the
smartphone. Data is not transferred from the smartphone to Yahoo!. For more
information, go to
hpwebos.com/migrate-webOS
.
Sync your desktop organiser and your
smartphone
If you want to continue using a desktop organiser to store your contacts,
calendar events and tasks—iCal and Address Book on the Mac, or
desktop Outlook
®
or Palm Desktop by ACCESS on Windows—you have
two choices:
•
Sync directly with your desktop organiser, avoiding the web completely.
•
Sync your desktop organiser with Google on the web and then sync
Google with your smartphone.
Both choices require you to use a third-party solution (sold separately). Go
to
hpwebos.com/sync-solutions
to see if there are third-party solutions
available for your smartphone. If there are no solutions available for your
smartphone, check with the developers of existing sync software for other
webOS devices to see if they are developing a solution for your
smartphone.
Table 3. DTA: application data transferred
Operating
System
Desktop
application
Contacts Calendar Tasks/
To dos
Memos/
Notes
Windows XP
or Vista
®
or
Windows 7
Outlook
2003, 2007
or 2010
√
√
√
√
Palm
Desktop
√
√
√
√
Mac OS
10.5
Address
Book
√
iCal
√
√
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