Re: Change of PDA
- From: Ric Harris <infobubble@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:38:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 6, 11:32 am, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:09:38 -0700 (PDT), Ric Harris
<infobub...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5 July, 12:09, pe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Ceresole) wrote:
Okay, I've been using Palm based PDAs for ten years now, and the Palm
Desktop on my Macs, and it's been great. However the M505 I'd been using
(hi, JonB) finally failed completely, and the refurbished replacement
Tungsten I bought this year, through Amazon, has also failed with what
looks like comprehensive display failure. I shall have to get a refund,
but anyway, I really need a PDA. NOT a phone; the advantage of the PDA
is I can leave it switched off except when needed, so the battery lasts
for a very long time...
I've got an iTouch, and I've tried moving to iCal and using that, but
it's no use; the conversion is flaky and it doesn't copy the addresses I
have in the Palm... Plus, unless I leave the iTouch on standby, which
flats the battery more quickly than I like, it takes a bloody age to
start. No good.
So, two questions:
(1) Is there a proper way to convert a Palm database to iCal? I don't
mind paying a reasonable amount for an app that works... At the moment,
all I can do is to save the database (in Palm Desktop) to vCard format,
and import into iCal. It does strange things with the dates... And of
course my Palm addresses won't transfer that way.
(2) Is anybody using a new Palm device? Which is nice? I like to use
Graffiti, rather than mini-keyboard input. Or does anybody have a no
longer used but working Palm-based PDA that they'd be willing to sell
me? I'd be happy to change the batteries, if that were necessary.
--
Peter
Isn't the easiest way to sync the palm to the PIM software of your
choice, then sync the new device to that software when you have it?
It's what the Palm was designed to do, and is usually a lot less
mither than trying to read proprietary data formats yourself and
convert them. Even if you had to borrow an hour on a PC with MS
Outlook installed, you'd probably get your data over OK...
That's the big downside - it's *always* Outlook.
But it is the simplest method, as long as you watch out for potential
data loss due to field matching failures and field length limits.
I keep a VM with Outlook 2003 installed just for that sort of thing,
it currently has five different mobile phone/PDA suites on it from
various different occasions. Astonishingly they haven't yet broken
each other.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw- Hide quoted text -
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Not that Outlook or Palm's interpretation of how to talk to it is
perfect, obviously. The number of hours I've spent messing about with
Conduits/wiping Outlook calendars and reimporting just because of some
minor Palm bug that their support basically say happens because they
don't have full documentation for Outlook's APIs or indeed fully
understand them, and basically that's it. Grr.
However, when it works, it's definitely the way forward.
My calendars now sync to my Google calendar, too. I've not dared try
Google Contacts as I don't quite trust them yet, but the aim if for
all my PIM data to be available everywhere...
.
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