Hi,
I had to do a hard reset on my HTC Touch and i couldnt backup my messages before that. But i do have an file with all messages in it on my Mac via Missing Sync... messages.csv
Is there a way to get these messages back on my ppc?
Thanx a lot in advance!
Can missing sync not restore the csv file it's backed up?
So what program made the .csv file, since you double posted the same question in the PIM Backup thread can we assume you used PIM Backup to create it? If so use PIM to restore it.
No, it was made with Missing Sync, but it's not possible to restore them with that program. Pim Backup also does not do the trick
Didn't think it supported that file type, but your post over there got me confussed, maybe you can find someone with MS Outlook and use that, MS Office has supported csv files for years. Anything beyond that, I don't have a clue, guess this will be a lession to start backing up your pda.
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Just wanting to know the location of where the contacts are stored when theyre on the phone?
For example, the text messages are stored in Windows > Messaging.
Thanks
Where are the contacts stored
all PIM data (contacts, appointments, tasks) are stored in the file 'pim.vol' which is located in the root entry.
Wolfgang
How to Manually Backup your Contacts, Appointments and Task or the PIM in WM2005?
Look here:
http://buzzdev.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=45
you also can use Sunnysoft Backup Manager to save all your data. You only have to rename the pim.vol to something else before restoring the data.
Wolfgang
presumably cemail.vol is the mail, will this work as well?
Flubster
Flubster,
if you can copy the file to another place it should work also.
Wolfgang
Just to say cemail.vol cannot be copied via file manager, resco file manager or windows. Any other way to get this file?
Flubster
OK, I wanted to backup the SMS's which was the main reason I wanted to backup the cemail.vol file. In the end I used the BackupSMS from a dopod WM2005 extended ROM and that worked fine
Flubster
Is there any better way to backup contacts list rather then Microsoft Outlook?
I've seen a lot of different softwares around.
I just want some advice of an application that runs ok on 9100 and keeps my contacts safe.
By the way, the worst thing about using windows is that you KNOW that some day it will crash and you will have to format the device. It's dismissable.
I agree with you. I would love something that was able to export contacts to an XML file (and sms to a series of text files) just so I didn't have to pretty much relie on having access to a windows box.
Enjoy!!........... http://www.jeyo.com/companion.asp
As has been mentioned before, in the root directory of My Device there is a file named pim.vol. With Calendar/Contacts/Tasks not running copy this file to another location such as your storage card (don't move it!). Voila! There's your backup. No muss, no fuss.
Good luck!
Tref said:
As has been mentioned before, in the root directory of My Device there is a file named pim.vol. With Calendar/Contacts/Tasks not running copy this file to another location such as your storage card (don't move it!). Voila! There's your backup. No muss, no fuss.
Good luck!
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I was wondering how to back up my contacts too. Thanks for the info!
You're welcome, I was just passing on what I also learned here.
Another thing I do is to use outlook to save an exported copy of my contacts as a .pst file on my PC. I don't sync my pda with my PC but I do periodically allow a sync to take place during which I set up the connection to "replace what is on the PC with what is on the device". After doing so I export the contacts to the pst file, somewhere on my PC and then delete all contacts in Outlook (it's not my primary email app). By deleting them I don't have to worry about hackers getting into them, and I'm then prepared for the next time I want to sync them for the purpose of backing them up.
Then I save copies of both the pim.vol and .pst files to a storage card that I keep locked up.
So i just need to save the pim.vol . And if something happens and i need to format my device i only need to put the replace pim.vol and all my contacts tasks and calendar will be restored, its correct
thanks
i use Shozu ( www.shozu.com ) lets me upload my photos right to Flickr, and as a bonus backs up my contacts. woo hoo
shozu looks good, however the wizard doesn appear in the list of compatible phones? What is the way round this?
How do you use the PIM file as a backup? I recently hard reset and then tried to copy the PIM file from my storage card back into the memory of the 8125 and I kept getting an error message that stated that either the file was in use or memory was not sufficient.
any thoughts?
u can use this contacts backup tool from buzzdev.net
Hammered said:
How do you use the PIM file as a backup? I recently hard reset and then tried to copy the PIM file from my storage card back into the memory of the 8125 and I kept getting an error message that stated that either the file was in use or memory was not sufficient.
any thoughts?
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Rename the pim.vol to pim.vo and copy and paste backed up pim.vol - it works :wink:
meschle said:
Rename the pim.vol to pim.vo and copy and paste backed up pim.vol - it works :wink:
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Sir, Where do I find pim.vol, I don't understand how to go in root please help me.
Hello
Does synching my XDA Exec backup my contacts? in case it does and if i lose my contacts(my not using my xda for a month) then how do i copy the backup on my pc to my xda?
set up outlook as your email software and select contacts in active sync make sure to check outlook contacts so see if all the contats are there
or read the help in active sync
Dude,
I asked similar Q a while ago - just backup "pim.vol" in your windows folder I think it is . . that's your contacts file.
thanks for the reply little_rock
how do i backup "pim.vol" ?
xda_guy said:
thanks for the reply little_rock
how do i backup "pim.vol" ?
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It's far easier /safer to use the desktop outlook to do the backup.
Alternatively, you can also check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=30893&d=1160987030 ; also see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279925
yeah or just use resco file explorer and cop y it to another folder somewhere
thanks for the replies
i have copied the pim.vol to my SD card, what information does it contain, i guess if my phone crashes i just need to copy the pim.vol on the SD card into the root directory, correct? why is it a hiddenen file?
what is SKTools 3.0
Pim.vol has got all of ur pim files like contacts, calender appointments,To do items etc.....
thanks niket
is there an app that i can install on my phone that backups SMS messages only, i dont need to back up anything else...i read that these messages are stored in PIM.VOL, so is there an app that extract the messages from it and save it, so i can restore it again if i have to?
i want a permanent free solution, so no shareware
btw, i have a tmobile wing wm6.1
AND I DONT USE OUTLOOK
Marth said:
is there an app that i can install on my phone that backups SMS messages only, i dont need to back up anything else...i read that these messages are stored in PIM.VOL, so is there an app that extract the messages from it and save it, so i can restore it again if i have to?
i want a permanent free solution, so no shareware
btw, i have a tmobile wing wm6.1
AND I DONT USE OUTLOOK
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Try PIM Backup. It's free and do the job. Besides it can backup many other things such as contacts, appointments, task, ...
I'm using Pim Backup and for some reason it won't open the .pib files it creates to back up my phone info. The website says you are supposed to be able to open the .pib file with Winzip (yeah right). Am I the only one going through this?
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I'm using Pim Backup and for some reason it won't open the .pib files it creates to back up my phone info. The website says you are supposed to be able to open the .pib file with Winzip (yeah right). Am I the only one going through this?
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The file may be corrupted during the creation process. Did you tried on multiple files or just one. It never happens to me.
If PIM doesn't work, there is an app called Jeyo mobile extender and companion that will work. But it's not free though.
I made a critical error by not having a PIM backup for all my non-SIM contacts. What I did do was make a copy of the PIM file before hard resetting my device, and this file has 584 kB. I don't know in terms of PIM files whether 584 kB is a sizable or a small file, but I do know that my contact list was not small.
When I tried to install this PIM backup on to my Advantage 7501 it didn't seem to do much of anything. It appears that all I have on my contact list are contacts that I happened to write to SIM.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there an application which can read what are apparently Outlook contacts which were stored in the PIM file? I do not own Outlook.
Many thanks,
bagua
Try opening the file with wordpad but create a copy of it fist, just in case....If you can create a csv file of it, I think most PIM software ought to import it.
Unsuccessful PIM transfer
I did make several copies of the file, but when I opened it up in WordPad, although I could see some numbers, along with lots of scrawl, it doesn't appear that all of my numbers are there!
Occasionally people do stupid things, and this was one of my occasions!
bagua