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Posted by Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] on July 31, 2006, 1:37 pm
Please log in for more thread options That would be my best guess, yes. Not sure why a restore should cause AS
problems (you did use a soft reset after restore, right?), but that seems
like as good a plan as you're going to get.
Paul T.
> Let me provide a little bit more information here. Around the first of
> this year I did a full backup of the Axim to the cf card. Something in
> that backup was corrupt as any restore would cause AS to fail. After that
> I did only pim backups of subsequent data to the card as recommended by
> Dell tech support. I have information in the original full backup that I
> now need. Should I go ahead and do a restore of that original backup, even
> with it's corrupt files, then re-backup just the pim data from that and
> hard-reset the device? I have information from the original backup that I
> need but I'm afraid it's corruption will render my new AS4.2 useless once
> again. Any sugesstions?
>
> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
>>I don't think that calendar information is going to be possible without
>>writing code. If you backup with Spb Backup, they have a desktop program
>>that will extract the contents of the backup, but the PIM data is in a
>>database of sorts, not separate files for each calendar item. I think
>>that you'd have to parse that database and decide what to add to the local
>>store on the device.
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>>>I need to be able to restore my pim data from my dell axim x51 that is on
>>>a
>>> cf card. I want to restore it outside of the Axim then be able to pull
>>> calander information from the restore and put it back to the Axim. The
>>> reason I can't restore the PIM directly on my Axim is that something is
>>> corrupt in the data which causes the Axim and Active Sync not to work
>>> which
>>> in turn causes me to have to reset my PDA. Can PIM data be restore
>>> outside
>>> of the PDA via some type of card reader?
>>>
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