[MichBlackberryBoy]

My beloved Pearl 8100 broke (to be specific my trackball FELL OUT at Sams Club and the new one is taking forever to get here) so I bought a brand new Pearl 8110 today. Love it!! I really like how the memory card slot is on the side, instead of under the battery (what a dumb design!).

I went into my desktop manager and backed up the old blackberry, it told me to plug in the new 8110, I did. It transferred everything fine except for my address book What gives? Is there a way to back up 'just' the address book so I can transfer it to the 8110? Ive tried it twice unsuccessfully.

[jeffh]

You can use the Desktop Manager Advanced option in Restore to restore just the Address Book, or any database you wish.

[MichBlackberryBoy]

Jeff, I did what you said and it says its "read only" and cannot restore to the device.

[MichBlackberryBoy]

EDIT: For some reason, when I backed up "Address book-all" it wouldnt let me restore to the new pearl 8110. However, it did let me restore the regular old "address book". Thanks Jeff for the help!

[jeffh]

I don't quite understand what happened, but it sounds like it ended ok. That's good.

[Northampton]

Jeff, I have the same sort of problem, but with no resolution. I backed up my 7290, then tried to restore to an 8800. Everything made it over except the address book (350 entires). I can see them on the file side, and nothing on the device side of the file manager. I have tried just to move that item over several times, to no avail.
Bill

[fonebrkr]

Instead of a restore, have you tried a one way sync from outlook to the device?

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[jeffh]

Have you tried the switch device wizard?

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