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?
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Hello,
I've a great problem. I used PocketInformant and made a new appointment. Then my PDA (HTC Trinity) freezed. I made a softreset and after this lots of programs could not be started.
But the greatest problem is that all my PIMs (appointments, contacts...) are away. When I want to open Contacts I get a Error Message: Cannot logon to the the Pocket Outlook Database .
What can I do now? I know that all data is stored at the pim.vol . Are there any programs where I can read out this file?
It hasn't to be comfortable. I just need to see my appointments so that I can write them manually down at my Outlook on PC.
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.
I have an address.dat from my old Palm Tungsten W. Not sure if any of you can help? I don't know if the Treo uses the Palm Desktop and same address.dat files?
I want to import it into outlook to sync it to the HTC, but of course the .dat file isn't in an importable format?
Does anyone know of something that will convert it to .csv or something?
I have got around this by downloading an old version of Palm desktop, deleting the address.dat file and replacing it with my old one.
I've then had to export each one as a vcf and bring it into Outlook, then sync to my HTC.
Another way to go about it:
if you still have the original Tungsten W CD you will find a utility called OutlookSwitcher (from memory under the Post Install folder).
Running the Outlook Switcher will change your HotSync conduit to sync with Outlook instead of Palm Desktop.
So:
1. Sync your TW with Palm Desktop (as a safeguard)
2. Run Outlook Switcher
3. Sync the TW with OL
4. Connect your HTC and sync with OL, making sure the conduit is set to desktop overwrite HTC
Hope this helps...
Y.
Thanks for that, but I bought my Palm from a friend and never had the install CD.
Mind you, if I'd known about OutlookSwitcher I might have been able to Google for it.
Hey.
I'm hoping someone can help me with this issue I'm having.
Today I'm buying the HTC Touch HD because my good old HTC Tytn is broken. I am planning to use the Touch HD immediately but I don't have access to my computers containing my personal Outlook files for the next two weeks (I'm on the road for work and having a holiday right after) so I can't use activesync to upload all my contacts onto the Touch HD.
So I thought I'd copy the outlook contacts file or folder (it isn't a .pst file is it?) onto the SD card from my Tytn and place it into the HD and paste the outlook file/folder into the right place.
Is this possible and can anyone tell me where I can find these Outlook files on my device?
thanks!
Cruise.
Hmmm... think that files are not available...
But you could try some backup tool, like one in my signature...
Agree, use PIM BackUp, it's on here somewhere, not only will it backup your contacts but messages and calendar as well.
and call history
i have an hd2 and am soon going to be getting rid of my tmobile service so i wanted to know without using outlook or activesync is there a way to move my contacts off of my HD2 (off the simcard) and onto my pc? is there i program that i can download that ill let me copy all the names and numbers on a file that can be saved on my pc and read?
bump. is there any windows mobile program i can install that will allow me to do this?
Hi,
search for Pimbackup, i think this really useful program is what you need.