Transfer/ Import Contacts to Nokia PC Suite

Import Google Contacts to Nokia PC Suite

You would be forgiven to think that importing contacts from your Google address book into Nokia PC Suite would be an easy and straight forward task. Google Contacts has 3 export options: a proprietary Google CSV, a standard Outlook CSV and the vCard format. Likewise Nokia PC Suite allows importing Outlook CSV and vCard formats. Having recently tried both methods though, neither worked.

The Outlook CSV format failed with some error message and informed me that no contacts were imported. The error message gave no clue as to why. The vCard format on the other hand would import only a single contact.

After a little bit of digging around I found that the vCard .vcf file exported by Google Contacts is a composition of all your contacts, but Nokia PC Suite expects only one contact per .vcf file. A quick Google search reveled just the tool for this, vCardSplit. Using it is pretty simple: just dump your contacts.vcf file into a folder, say C:\temp, dump the vCardSplit.exe into the same folder, open a command prompt and type vCardSplit.exe contacts.vcf.

Back in Nokia PC Suite, go to Contacts and select import, then hold the shift-key and multiple-select all the .vcf contact files (Ctrl+A doesn't work because Nokia decided to snazzy up their interface and code their own file-select dialog). Click import and you should get all your contacts.

However, in my case I noticed none of the phone numbers showed up! Names and emails were there, but no numbers. The solution to this is to open up the contacts.vcf file you exported from Google and replace all instances of "VERSION=3.0" with "VERSION=2.1" and also replace all instances of "TYPE=" with "" (i.e. nothing). Then run the split tool again and import the contacts into Nokia PC Suite again. This time all info should come through (haven't done extensive checking, but all numbers and emails appear to be there, not sure about groups, titles and other details).

How to unlock document locked by unknown user?

Applicable especially for the Linux Users - 

When you open a file LO locks it to prevent another user editing it at the same time. It does this by placing a lock file in the folder with the file you are editing, and then deletes the lock file when you close the document. When a crash happens, the lock file can be left behind. If your file is MyFile.odt the lock file will probably be .~lock.MyFile.odt# and it will be a hidden file. On Linux the . at the beginning makes it hidden. With Dolphin on a KDE Linux it is Alt+. With Lubuntu, you can go to - View -> Show Hidden. Once you can see the lock file, delete it.

Disable auto-refresh tabs in Chrome Desktop

It's a relatively new parameter which has been turned ON by default in the new release. Chrome Team is calling it "Tab Discarding". This may happen if there are many Tabs open and Chrome is running out of Memory. According to their documentation, "Tabs are now sorted from most interesting to least interesting. The least interesting tab may be discarded if we run out of physical memory." I suppose least interesting would translate to those tabs which weren't accessed in a while.

Though they are trying to help us free some RAM, however, this 'feature' totally ruins the tab if you don't want its contents to refresh due to some reason, like a YouTube video you paused at a particular location. Or wanted to go back to some top headlines on the homepage of CNN, which you had glanced at earlier and now you want to go back to them, but as soon as you click the tab, this 'feature' auto refreshes the page, updating the headlines. List goes on and on. I also had some Amazon tabs open and had specifically wanted not to have the page update, because it had some particular images and design elements displayed that I wanted to refer later, but when I got back to those pages, the 'Tab-discarding' feature 'auto refreshed' all of them, replacing them with the current version of the pages, totally devoid of whatever I wanted to refer to. And for those who suggest it is probably Amazon's auto-refresh, no, Amazon doesn't auto-refresh product pages, I have had pages remain open for many days and they would never update unless I clicked Refresh.

Now, let's get back to the Solution

To see the 'Discarded Tabs', type this in the Address Bar: chrome://discards/

To actually disable:, type in your address bar: chrome://flags, then disable this flag: #automatic-tab-discarding (Turn it to 'Disabled' from 'Default')

Simple solution to a highly unproductive and frustrating issue. That's it. You can stop pulling your hair out now :)

Source - superuser.com