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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
the call log max is 300. when u go over 300 is deletes the oldest call. no way to backup what's not there.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
I would backup with pim. Go to outlook and delete all 32586 contacts. Then activesync. You should get either zero contacts on outlook and pda OR get the original set of 2180 contacts. If get zero contacts, then restore backup to get the 2180 contacts and activesync again. Then I would go to outlook and delete all the extra contacts. This should leave you with the 200 or so contacts that you want to keep. Activesync, and then backup on pim for safe keeping.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
backup 732 contacts with pim. go to outlook and delete all contacts. then active sync. you will probably have zero contacts in both places. then restore with pim. much easier than manually deleting.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] b_abhijit:
Great tool...this may solve a problem I am facing...

I have a Dell Axim x51v. Since the new Yahoo Go does not work on the Axim, I have this problem of out-of-date contacts and other PIM data on the Axim while I can keep that data up-to-date on my AT&T 8525 (Hermes). This tool will allow me to backup my contacts on the 8525 and then restore them to the Axim. Hopefully it works well to solve the problem. :)

I primarily use my Axim at home with an wall mounted external monitor (VGA out) and with a bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse. It is a space and energy/electricity saver. And the setup is perfect for my family to use it instead of a bulky and pricey laptop computer.

I will post an update later, once I try it out the backup-restore.

Thanks!!!

UPDATE !!

I performed the backup of contacts on my WM6 AT&T 8525 and then restored them on my Dell Axim x51v. I chose to delete existing contacts on the Axim before restoring. It worked perfect. The photos in the contacts too were transferred correctly!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nfsnyc:
Hey, im sure someone asked this aboutthis program, but I cant seem to find it in any posts, is there a way to view the resulting PIB file on ur pc in Outlook or some other program? Cause only thing I can do is open it with WinRAR which shows me a bunch of mangled text with my msgs in between...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] revmis:
cannot restore SMS/MMS???

Thanks for a great PIM backup.

But on my Qtek S200 (prophet), there is a problem. recently I ve just upgrade to WM06 with ROm Transformer 1.1 from PDAViet.

I use Pim backup in WM5 before upgrading,with hope that I can restore in WM06, as you said in the previous thread I read somewhere in the forum.

But after I found it very strange that while contact, pictures associated with the contact, tasks....is recovered perfectly, none of my SMS/MMS is recovered. During restoring process, i still manage to see the number of how many SMS in Inbox, Draft..etc....and In the restore status, it informs that "426 records found in file" but then "0 message inserted in the database": 0 of my SMS is recovered.

Any help on this matter? I would be greatly appreciated if you can give me a solution.

Thank you all in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] murph:
great app. is there a way to backup IE Favorites with this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jamesus:
If you use activesync they are automatically backed up if the mobile favorites is chosen to sync.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] murph:
yes, i know about this. however, since discovering PIMBackup, i don't Activesync anymore :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MatteoC:
Anyone know if this great application is still supported and it development it's yet opened?

Thanks Matteo!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AgentM:
Hi,

Can this be fixed so that the UI fits the screen-size on the Dash?

Roshan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sasu85:
I've tryed to read all the post but I haven't found the answer for my question...

Soon I'll buy a HTC S310(alias Oxygen with Windows Mobile for Smartpone 5.0), I've a HTC P3600 (alias Trinity with WM5 Original ROM), I can move only SMS (800 sms in various folders)from Trinity to Oxygen...is possible with PIM BACKUP??

This fantastic application is compatible with WM SMartphone devices?

I hope in a instanly response...thanks a lot!

P.S: Sorry for my bad english!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jasesaj:
View contents of the PBM file to see MMS msg pics

I am having the same problem... I renamed the file to ZIP & opened it (read that somewhere) but I have only one file... PBM inside. When I open it, I can see the messages formatted in binary & I cannot figure out how to separate the attached photos in the MMS section. All the message text and send/recv date as well as sender/phone #.

Is there a hacked up tool to parse the file into component parts....? Would be VERY grateful.

OBPOST: Freakin GREAT tool... LOVE IT, LOVE IT... just want to have the actual msg contents viewable. At least there is some way to back it up.

Awesome proggie...

Thanks,

Jase

:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LondonDweller:
Where's Dotfred?

Do you all agree that both of Dotfred's applications, PIMBackup and TaskMgr are top class? PIMBackup could do with some more work, as there are some problems here and there; for me it's the speed-dials.

I am still very grateful to Dotfred, as I am using both programs all the time. The registry editor in TaskMgr is the best I have come across.

However, since his last posting was at the beginning of August, I can only conclude that either some ungrateful sod upset him, or otherwise he has finished University and is now in some deservedly highly paid job.

My gratitude and best wishes to him :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Looper1:
Dotfred we are not worthy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] crino:
don't worry Dotfred is 'just' busy on his daily work, will be back soon ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] myaneedsthisprog:
HELP

i havethe same problem with my tmobile dash

i backed up then upgraded to the wm6 but now cannot restore my text messages. i was able to restore everything else but my text messages. and i need my text messages! waaaahhhh

i get the message " 0 messages not inserted coz exists in the database"

how can this be? :confused:

please please please let me know what to do?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lobo13:
During restore you have two options for messages: first, like default, is option "Delete all existing messages..." and second "Add only new messages...." You must select second option "Add only new messages..." and your messages will restore.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dineshh:
PIM Backup 2.5

Hi

Great tool

Restores sms, call logs, appointments, contacts fine in my Atom Life WM6

But there is mix up in Anii. dates and Birthday data in Contacts after restore. All anni. data is transferred to bday fields and anni. fields are left blank.

Secondly Speed dials some times dont get rstored.

Thirdly photos with contacts get trashed. A bit of the picture is only visible.

Awaiting a fix on these items.

Dinesh
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stonecoldtx:
GREAT App!!

Hi, dotfred--

Just wanted to let you know how thankful I am for finding your PPC PIMBackup application--it allowed me to successfully upgrade my VX6700 from WM5 to WM6 and retain my call history and text messages!

I read through 50 of the 65 pages of the posts in this thread before going ahead and moving forward, but by that time, I had a pretty good "handle" on what I needed to do to proceed.

Again, thanks! It worked like a charm!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bemymonkey:
Hmmm, great app (can't live without it), but I think I've found a bug.

I just restored my contacts and calendar after a hard reset, and all the birth dates I'd entered for my contacts were duplicated and moved up by 1 day. No, I didn't enter all 50+ dates wrong, they just all copied themselves to one day earlier... and ONLY the birthdays.

Weird, huh? Any idea why this could happen?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramba74:
hi there..great app. but when i backup my SMS and after restore the sms will but themself in the MMS map, is there a prog that can move the messages from MMS map to the SMS map.

It is not possible in windows.

thankssz.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ja.prvni:
appointment problem

I have problem with backup and restore appointments. All appointments have - after restore - set suggestion=ON and status=BUSSY. Sorry for my bad english

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eng3:
I just tried PIMBACKUP but it didnt really work for me.

I have a blackjack that I was upgrading from WM5 to WM6.

I backed up everything and restored it.

The contacts got restored, but none of my messages got restored.

I assume this is because the office version is different for WM6?

the log just says, found 1550 records, connecting to outlook, connected, 0 messages inserted, and then it disconnects and says sucessful
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bqtran:
I am in a similar situation as enricong. I've backed up my wing to shadow, and most are moved over correctly (contacts, call history, etc), but sms messages are not restored even though the restore operation completed successfully. I have about 2100 sms records and either 0 or 33 messages are inserted depending on the option I choose (sms overwrite or append).

Otherwise, thanks for the great program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] b.mann:
Is there another program that can read the PIM backup files and put all my contacts into Outlook?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
This is indeed a bug, that has been fixed, but not yet released. Fortunately, there is a workaround for this problem with the actual version of pim backup.

The only thing to do during the restore of messages, is selecting only one account and do the restore.

So, for instance, if you want to restore your SMS, just select Text messages account and no other one and do the restore. If nothing is restored on the device it means that the account doesn't exist and should be created first.

I hope it helps...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Just create a text backup, by unchecking the "binary backup(faster)" option.

When done, copy the pib file on your pc. Rename pib by zip and use an unzip utility to extract the contacts backup file (contacts_yyyymmdd.csc) .

Rename csc to csv and use Outlook to import from a text file and select the csv.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] b.mann:
Thanks for the help, but somehow I revived my device, but this is good to know for future reference anyway.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eng3:
Can you clarify?

I select messages only.

it shows email and text messages

When you say select only one account, do you mean I should uncheck emails?

How do I do that, if I press OK/Enter, it goes to the next screen, I've almost all the other buttons and nothing happens.

Anyways, the TXT message already exists so I would think the account does exist.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ravenlord:
dotfred...Are you foresee an update for PIM Backup for WM6 and MMS? News?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cyber-mate:
use 2.5 with Tytn II

I am unable to go any further after when I select the options. "NEXT" is not selectable!

Any help?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SaturnusDJ:
I've created myself a complicated problem:

Texted some guys while the date of the TyTN was put back one year (=2006).

Now I've set it back to '2007' but the textmessages are saved as '20-12-2006' so they are listed on bottom of everything. :(

Ok...no problem. Backuped the messages (No 'Compress backup' & No 'Binary backup (faster)' cause this will give useless files to mod.) and opened it in Notepad. Replaced al '2 0 0 6' by '2 0 0 7,' saved the file en tryed to restore it...but...PIM says:

PIM restore error

The format of the file [name] is invalid.

So there is some kind of hash blocking the modification of the .pib file?

How to bypass this error?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pietrucci:
New Version 2.!!!

Well, there seems to be a new version, 2.6!!! (www.dotfred.net), both a 2003 and a WM5/WM6 version.

I downloaded it immediately, because of my reminder and speeddial problems.

I made a fresh backup with 2.6, but then what a disappointment: restore of speeddials doesn't work at all, restore of contacts and appointments took so long hat I had to stop the process.

Don't know if it's something I did wrong (sure hope so, then the problem is solvable)

For now back to Sprite Backup...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saifias:
Start Menu Extension

Hi Fred, i noticed in your site that you are working on extending the functionality of the built-in Start Menu just like QuickMenu. When can we expect the first release of the same? Thanx.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GerooTech:
i wish to see a version that work on WM06 soon
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Moe5508:
Has anyone got PIM Backup to work correctly with Palm SMS Threader (Shogunmark's version)? I've tried but to no avail...:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cadeucsb:
Is there a way to access the contacts in the backup zip file it makes on a PC? I made a backup put it on my desktop, cleared my phone and Outlooks seems to have lost my phone contacts list....so the only way to get my contacts back is this file...

I think i am ok just picking and choosing my way thru the data with all the squares/symbols in Excel...is there an easier formatting way?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Super Loopy:
Put the contact list back on your phone and sync it with Outlook again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ordinaryless:
Hi guys,

pardon me for bring IT illiterate.

I've gone through the stages of changing .pib to .zip and i change the extensions of all the files within the zip to .csv

i do see the expected content but with loads of other rubbish characters.

How can i view them in excel without any rubbish and can i save them in .txt, .xls or .doc formats?

Best Regards,

Ordinaryless
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ordinaryless:
oh by the way, after ive renamed .pib to .zip, all the files that im seeing within the .zip files are extensions such as .pba(appts), .pbc(contacts), .pbm(messages).

I've to convert all above mentioned to .csv right? =)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twindon98:
Does anyone know how to get the program to appear the programs list.. with the other applications such as word, excel, etc.?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twindon98:
never mind got it .. great program
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jyavenard:
version 2.7 stopped right in the middle of restoring my speed dial backup. no message, no error. it just stops.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saywhat_playa:
I successfully installed and tweaked the FTouchFlo and continued to play round and accidently changed some stuff and eventually erased the config file for it... i tried uninstalling it and wouldnt work and i tried deleting the file and reinstalling but that also didnt work.

i wanted that program so i did some poking around and decided to install PPCPimBackup from "http://www.freewareppc.com/database/pimbackup.shtml", i backed up my files with

1) Create temp files in memory

2) Compress backup

3) Binary backup (faster)

all checked on option screen creating a backup file named "PIMBackup_20071226.pib.81feaa21"...

1) i then tryed opening the backup file and it told me, "run application first, then open file from within the application"

2) so i then tried to open the application and then go back to file explorer and open the file...still no go.

I hope this is enough information for help and im begging...iv never needed so much help, im close to graduation and had a bunch of college recruiters bizz cards saved in contacts so please!!!

Thank you ahead of time...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eMxyzptlk:
Restore on Symbian?

Hello,

Is there any soft for Symbian Mobiles (Nokia 6120, S60 3rd edition) that restore the contacts saved by PPCPimBackup ?? messages (SMS) would be a bonus but Contacts is the most important, the reason I need it for is because all my contacts are saved in a international format (for instance +9613... +336...) When I sync with Microsoft Outlook the `+' sign is gone from most contacts so when trying to sync it back from windows to Nokia (originally synced from I-mate JAM to outlook), most of the contacts have wrong numbers since the `+' sign is gone.... which require double work, if I could find a program that could restore them from PPCPimBackup ( i think it's a csv file), I could restore everything without errors..

Thanks guys...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Rotwild:
Great Program

No more problems with pim.Work perfect on my ASUS.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SaturnusDJ:
Anyone an idea?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tflorian:
use a good editor ?

It's just an idea ...

Notepad isn't a good ascii text editor ! use an real hexadecimal text editor google is your friend ..

and try again.

TFlorian
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcute:
still can't backup MMS
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Do not do a hard reset or a ROM upgrade when SD card encryption is active! If you do this all the files that are stored and encrypted on the sd card will be lost.

More infos here: WM6 SD card encryption FAQ

It seems that it is what happened to you. The SD card encryption was activated. You made a backup using PPCPimBackup, and because the file is created on the sd card, it is encrypted by WM6. You then made a hard reset. Well, by doing this, you just lost your encryption/decryption keys and so all the encrypted files stored on your sd card are lost because there is no way to recover them!

So be cautious, if sd card encryption is active, be sure to copy all encrypted files from sd card to a pc using activesync before a hard reset or rom upgrade otherwise you won't be able to recover them.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi jyavenard,

If it just stopped, it means that it crashed during the restore which let me think that the stored data is in a way corrupt. You're not the first telling me this, and I try to solve the issue but it is not easy. So if you don't mind, you can send me the pib file, or the pbd file, so I can have a look.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raptor567:
have been using this since version 2.5, it's convenient for backing things up for frequent reflashing....

I recently made the move to Black Satin and discovered because of the renamed sms/mms folders i couldn't restore my text messages.

Luckily after upgrading to 2.7 my 2000+ messages were restored, although my mms messages were lost. Not too big a deal as i don't use mms often, however it got me wondering if there wouldn't be a method to let you choose what folder to backup messages to instead of discarding messages that belong to a folder that doesn't exist on the device.

Would that be possible, or too difficult to add without causing new bugs?

-Steve
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dagurasu:
Awesome tool. It saved me alot of time on a ROM upgrade, and much easier than using activesync which really isn't meant for this anyway.

I apologize for not reading all 69 pages, but it would be neat if this could backup some basic settings like start menu and home screen layouts, HTC Home Configurator options, key bindings. Maybe this is all doable from the "custom" stuff , but I'd think a few of these things (maybe not the HHC) would be universal enough that people would enjoy a specific check box for them.

Once I have this figured out, and figure out how to cabify registry adjustments, I'll be able to do upgrades in well under half an hour, and then I can try new ROMs anytime I want.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] banesi:
Hey Fred, thanx for this nice app ;)

Is there a way to implement favorites backup also? I know it is possible to do it via ActiveSync but I wish it could have been done with PIM Backup.

Cheers mate!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BennTech:
Backup Favorites

Custom -> Options -> Add Folders -> \Windows\Favorites
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ausi:
First of all thank you for this excellent program.

Could anyone tell me if there is a way to write a text Message (SMS) on the PC and then tranfer it to the PPC and then send it??

Could someone please explain the "7" different options:

1. Set as default bacckup folder

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7. Keep defined custom items
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BennTech:
To write SMS on PC and send via phone requires a third-party app like Jeyo Mobile Companion.

For the options, I'm not sure about all these...maybe DotFred can voice in here because I'd like some definitive answers, too: :)

Set as default backup folder: Sets the folder you selected above as the default for future backups so you don't have to re-select it every time

Create temp files in memory: I think this lets you store PIMBackup's work files in memory rather than directly in your backup folder. Requires more free memory, but is faster when backing up to a storage card (and doesn't wear out your memory card writing a bunch of temporary files to it).

Compress backup: PIMBackup backup files are just a Zip file with the extension renamed. Not all Zip methods compress files, so this option adds compression to save space but takes slightly longer to complete.

Binary backup (faster): Store the files inside the Zip in a binary format or a more human-friendly text format.

Keep selected backup items: I think this lets you keep appointment, tasks, etc. once the backup is complete; otherwise it deletes them from your phone once they're backed up. Think of it like "moving" the items to your backup, similar to Outlook's AutoArchive. If you don't check this, keep your backup file safe because the original is deleted!

Keep selected messages accounts and folders: Same as #5 except for e-mail, MMS, and SMS.

Keep defined custom items: Same as #5 except for the custom files/folders you select.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ausi:
Thank you Benn, this gives me a good insight, i hope DotFred can confirm
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Well, not quite correct but here is a very quick user guide

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ausi:
Thanks for your User Guide, i suggest you put the Link in your first post together with the program.

A**lso could you tell me if there is a way to write a text Message (SMS) on the PC and then tranfer it to the PPC and then send it using your program??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johniemi:
PIMBackup restored my old HTC Wizard data to my new HTC Kaiser just fine. All the calendar entries, contacts, tasks etc. restored to my new Kaiser.

BUT! Now I activesynced the new Kaiser and everything is lost again. I do have the PIMBackup backup file still in memory so that's good, but:

How do I tell activesync/Kaiser NOT TO REMOVE the calendar entries, contacts, tasks etc. that I just restored with PIMBackup?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ravenlord:
When I restore my sms, choosing to update with option "Add only new messages to the Database",with other sms already present, this duplicates the messages. It's a very long operation: for check/add my 2400 messages (in upcoming) his work for 8 hours, and after I have another 2400 messages in sent mail and it must work for another 8 hours for inserting these.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Ravenlord,

The option "add only new messages to the DB" worked only for text backups, not binary ones, this has been fixed in v2.8

Anyway, restoring so many messages indeed takes time, but whatever the tool you use I don't think you will find something better. I already improved the procedure, maybe I can still do better...we'll see.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ravenlord:
Thank you a lot dotfred! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kelvino9:
Thanks for the new version. 2.8 works great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wanwarlock:
thanks for the update! backing up well, hopefully never have to hard reset
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] widigol:
no bug in this version? I am still running v2.6
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toblo:
For that, you'd have to wait and see, or find one by yourself. :D

Good release, Fred.