as the title states,
Where does a ppc running wm5 or 6 store the contacts?
my pc (with vista os) has stopped recognising all my ppcs and I want to send the contacts to a 'new' phone from my m3100 that has them all stored.....i just cant find where.
I copied the contact/lnk file but its a link file not the root folder where the files live.
any help is greatly appreciated
gurry
if i'm right, contacts are stored in the pim.vol file in the root of device. But do not expect miracles - pim databases from different versions of OS are not compatible! you may be lucky, but regullary it does not work. and you cannot simply rewrite pim db...
best way is to export contacts to completely different format (you will easily find some tool) an then import it back to new device using the same tool.
your vista may be cured by manually downloading wmdc and reinstalling it - i have already seen similar issue. or you can install xp to a virtual machine and connect device to virtualized xp...
nocturne is correct. Contacts and appointments and some other outlook stuff (not email) are kept in PIM.vol and it is different even between AKU versions.
You can overwrite PIM.vol once however, but if the file is of incorrect format your contacts app will fail to work. to fix this rename pim.vol to something else (like pim1.vol) then reset.
At this point a new empty correct pim.vol will be automatically created.
From what I read around the forum pim.vol from higher AKU versions (3 and up at least) is compatible with WM 6.
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When i start contacs its just shows a little dot in the upper left corner and it doesn't start and the problem with calendar is, when i'm adding a meeting it just dont take it. I'm using phils wm6. Any ideas?
have you replaced the default pim.vol with WM5's pim.vol ? If yes, that's the problem
ok, yes i did replace it with a pim.vol from wm5. i didnt save the wm6 pim.vol so now i have to reinstall it then?
Most likely you need to hard reset the phone
if you have the contacts synchronized on pc or on the sim you may not hard reset. just rename the pim.vol to pim2.vol or whatever and reboot. a new pim.vol file will be created.
if you want to backup the whole information from pim.vol and use it on wm6, read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=323136
i've been too in your situation. and after a while i've found a solution.. i've succesfully backed up on a c500 with wm5 and restored it on my wm6 c600 with that application. it may work also with wm5 emulator .
I tried to update 2.23 RWE to 2.27 RWE (WM6) without using Outlook (on a side note, does anyone know a good alternative?) so I copied pim.vol to my PC as well as the SD card.
After the upgrade didn't work (both by SD flash and Desktop installer), the "upgrade" obviously erased pim.vol. I tried the old trick of renaming, copy and pasting... alas it didn't work.
Anyone have any idea as to what to do?
After an exhaustive googling, I'm still none the wiser. I'd be great if I could have the contacts (name, number, email, etc) exported out to a CSV. I found a parser written in perl, but it doesn't seem to like WM6's pim.vol
If anyone can save me from hours of editing a 4MB text file to CSV, please let me know!
Best solution to copy all PIM data between different versions is PIMBackup .
You can move all contacts, phone calls log and SMS's to new unit .
I'm pretty new to ppc's, so this may be a dumb question....
Recently the Outlook server at my office crashed and the guys at work had to format the whole thing. Now the Outlook on my desktop is basically empty, and I thought I could just sync my ppc and get all the contacts and calendar entries etc back to the desktop.
But when I tried, it says "there's been a change made on your server that requires you to re-synchronize all items on your device. You may lose changes made since your last successful synchronization. Support code: 8600050d"
If I click "Yes" to continue, it'll wipe everything from my ppc. I've already selected the option for "If there's a conflict: Replace item on desktop".
What can i do?
I'm using HTC Touch Dual, and running Windows XP....Thanks....
I've seen this error when there is a time difference between the PPC and Outlook, as a result of traveling. In your case, is probably due to the server crash. You can try deleting the AtiveSync partnership and then create a new one. AS will ask you to select which info to keep, i.e. Outlook -> PPC, Combine PPC and Outlook or PPC -> Outlook. Just select the PPC overwrites Outlook at that point. HOWEVER, I don't know how will it handle PPC emails in subfolders (that is, will it create the subfolder structure in Outlook?). So, just to be save, do a PIM backup on the PPC before you try anything. Good luck.
PS,
Also, your IT guys should have a kept a backup!!! Or at least, setup your Outlook to use a PST file on your computer to store the information.
Thank you very much, it worked after I deleted the ActiveSync partnerships.
I'm using HTC Touch Diamond. Here's my problem: I used PIMbackup to backup my data before flashing but stupidly I saved the PIM file on the root of storage card so yeah it's lost after flashing. I've tried recovering it with a software but couldn't find the PIM file.
But maybe there's some hope: I also copied all of the files and folders from my phone before flashing. You know, folders like My Windows Mobile-Based Mobile, Business, etc. Do they contain data for my contacts and messages? If yes, where? Thanks.
problems solved for contacts. it's in the file called pim.vol now how about recovering messages?
Title describes alot.. So I installed WM 7 to my HD2, and before that tried to fight with outlook witch I didn't get to work.. so, I just used PIM backupper for contacts and used winrar and then opened it in exel, I can see names & numbers but its a real mess.. Is there any other way to put those contacts back to phone exept manual writing them? since I didn't know I can't even explore my WM7 phone via pc to try pim explorer exe on my phone.. Any help?