In article <0001HW.C4324D0400441A92B01AD9AF@news.sf.sbcglobal .net>,
Stephanie <nada@notavail.net> wrote:

> My old Nokia 6200 doesn't have Bluetooth. I have a USB data cable (C-42) and
> now am searching for an application that will drag the (many) contacts off
> the phone and save them on my Mac.
>
> I'm having no luck. iSync won't do it,

Unfortunately no: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/
Also a quick search for plugins for iSync on google did not turn up
anything useful.

> BitPim won't, and Nokia's PC Suite (a
> PC app) won't install under Win 2000 (VMWare installation).
>
> I'm running out of ideas. Is the only solution to take it all to a PC and
> install PC Suite there?

Does the PC Suite pull off contacts? I could not find that on Nokia's
site.
If so, most likely taking it to a PC (or using a Mac with Parallels and
Windows XP for example - I use that to sync my TomTom GPS Navigator via
USB and it works) is the easiest solution, because then you can export
the file from whatever PC application to .vcf Files which can be read by
Address Book.

You could also use your Intel Mac with Boot Camp
(http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html)
to boot your Mac with Windows XP, and then install Nokia's PC Suite.

Alternative ways are:
Sync it to a newer phone using Infrared, then sync the newer phone via
Bluetooth (see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/ for
compatible phones).
Or store contacts on the SIM card (possibly only parts of it, using Menu
commands to transfer contacts from the internal phone memory to the SIM
card), and use the SIM card in another, compatible phone to transfer
from there to Address book.

Some more ideas:
http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/...454_7-30536080.
html?messageID=2505214

Just occured to me:
I have an old Mac Application that might work (it does run under 10.5
and on an Intel Mac), as it is about the same age as your 6200, ie 2002:
http://www.idexpress.fi/en/gsm/simexpress.html
Test it (free demo only does 25 entries), if it works it's just USD 19 -
it might do the trick! Come to think of it this is probably the solution
you are looking for, because it uses serial communication either via USB
or Infrared.
I had used it successfully before the days of Bluetooth.
It also had saved the day when my phone took a plunge in the pool - the
phone was gone but not my data.
It will not iSync, but will get your data into tab delimited text file
so you can clean it up and import to Address book.

If it does not work, I'd e-mail the developer, it could be easy to
implement.

(You do remember to have a copy of the Mac's Address Book data on you
phone only once you transferred to a new phone - and do yourself a
favour and get one with Bluetooth, it so much easier.)

Hope that gets you started.

Marc

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