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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Afionaki:
Hello to everyone

I am new to this Forum and to the PPC's in general. I just bought my first PDA without having any experience at all as I mention above. My new device is a HTC P3300 and after transferring the contacts etc from my previous mobile phone I was looking for an app like this for backup. Excuse me if my questions have been already answered, but I would really appreciate a user manual with explanations about the options of this program. I made a Backup of my contacts and found out that the program created a backup file not larger than 12KB in the storage folder I assigned. It's difficult for me to believe that 500 busyness cards are stored in a space no more than 12KB. Where are the contacts actually stored? Can I make copies of the (actually)file to keep it save on my computer for any circumstance?

Again sorry if these questions are already made and answered but reading 50 pages of posts is really impossible...

Thank you for your patience and for the answers in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Hi Afionaki, unless you encountered any errors, it is most likely that that file contains all your contacts, the file is actually a zip file, if you rename it to .zip you can access its contents.

Also if you would like to be 100% certain that your contacts are backed up, you can use Microsoft ActiveSync to Backup your contacts to your outlook on your computer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blazeguru:
Questions

Hello,

This is really a great application, but I have a few questions. Would somebody be so kind to help me ? I looked already in this thread but with 50 pages I probably overlooked something.

1. How can I backup custom files?

2. When I make a backup I have some options but three of them I don't understand. I think they belong to restoring a backup but I am not shure.

These options are: Keep selected backup items

Keep selected messages accounts and folders

Keep defined custom items.

3. Why is the options button always greyed out ? I know I can set options via the menu, but what is this option button ?

Greetings
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] badboy876:
That's great

I need this app to backup my PIM data.

thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] msrivastava:
Does it backup status - Free/Busy? and reminder setting?

I have a problem - using ver 2.4 on my Wizard - with NBD roms (7.4, 7.6 and now 8.0)

I have a number of appointments some set to free and others to busy.

when I restore, all appointments are busy and have a reminder set to 15 mins.

I have a number of anniversarys and birthdays set - and I do not want to be reminded at 11:45 in the night that there is an all day event tomorrow - know what I mean? :-)

another quirk I noticed was that all day events have an end date set to one day before - so my PPC tells me that XYZ's birthday is on August 2 and if I look at the start and end dates - its an all day entry starting on Aug 2 and ending on Aug 1. How did that happen?

Anyone else seen this?

I dont use outlook and would like this to be my only tool to backup and restore appointments.

Thanks for the help and a great app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] msrivastava:
just tested on v2.5 (backup + restore)

all "status:free" and "reminder:none" appointments are backed up and come up as "status:busy" and "reminder:remind me 15 mins before".

can this be fixed in the next ver? Or am I missing something here?

The other quirk I mentioned about end dates of all day events coming as before the start date, I was unable to replicate - so maybe its unrelated to this app.

-

Manu
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GsJosh:
I did see the text in the .csm file. It looked like this:

So I see that there's a way to read all the messages. The only problem is: there is no timeline? In what way are the messages ordered and how do I see hat messages are incoming or outgoing? By the way, is there a way to assort this kind of information into a more simple and viewable format?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
PIM Backup 2.5 - Wow

DotFred, nice work so far running great on my PPC 6700, no longer can live without it.

Anyone ever thought of doing a auto install program where you place all the cabs in an executiable and once you have Hard Reset your device you click on that file and it installs all your programs instead of you doing one after another.

Can you tell I do alot of testing? I think such an application with PimBackup 2.5 together would be amazing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] niobos:
Try importing this file in Excel or Openoffice-Calc
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tobias1981:
I have about 2180 contacts in my PDA - only about 200 of them are real contacts, the others are all named "unnamed" - I want to get rid of them.

The idea was to edit the backup file and restore it to the PDA - but that does not work, the file is always detected as non valid.

So how can I cut of a party of the .pib file and restore it anyway?

I tried to edit the file with Excel - even simple saving already makes the file invalid for PIM backup, also a simple notepad did not work.

Checking for dublicate contacts with SK Tools also did not work.

The problem is I don't want to delete them manually, it also does not work to synch with outlook and delete the contacts there. Outlook and AS 4.5 detect that there are even more contacts: about 32586...

Any help on finding a solution how to edit the .pib file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peai_peai:
Thank

Very Very Good ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nsk:
Thank you for Your great app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uries62:
Corrupt Task Backup from previous version

Can't import tasks backed up from previous version (2.3). All other entries work fine. Is there anyway to download the old version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] karo:
wm2003 / 2003SE

Hi Fred,

thanks for your tool.

Maybe useful for users of the older Version of WM2003:

I tested backup under windows mobile 2003 - not the SE Version

It seems to work.

- sorry, it seems to me that it does not work pefekt, todos are not restored

as I expected it

Karsten
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] amitavbanerjee:
thx. this works fine. only gives a lot of errors while closing. but does the work ok.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] corinnamda:
Please help I am running WM6 and cannot copy the exe file onto my MDA. I have tried using copy then paste and also just drag and drop but it won't move onto my pc??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ben0s:
Just installed on my HTC Touch and it works great

Many thanks :)

ben0s
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eddddd:
presque parfait sur e650

bravo Frédéric, c'est un excellent soft !

En suspend pour moi:

- le démarrage en mode "caché" et schedule actif

- les options de jours dans "schedule" qui ne sont pas conservées

- les options de comptes de messagerie qui ne sont pas conservées
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tref:
After buying a Panda I struggled for two days with Activesync to get my measley 237 contacts sync'd to my PC from my old Wizard. AS would just put the first 101 of them on my PC, then repeat them, over and over. After pulling out nearly all of my hair I happened upon this topic and 10 minutes later I had all of my contacts and appointments done, including all Categories and Notes. Thank you Fred for a fantastic tool!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcespi2005:
English, please.... perhaps your comments can help someone ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] remsterr:
WM2003SE on Magician

Hi Fred - judging by the fan mail you're getting this looks like a great tool.

I just tried it on my Qtek s100 (WM2003SE / ROM 1.13.00 WWE)

It runs fine, but when I try to read the files there appears to be what look slike encrypted hex data

(i.e. "0x99,0x29,0x2e,0x8f,0x1b,0x2e,0x4d,0x1f") which makes no sense to me

Also the Sent SMS message text does not appear to be captured

(i.e. 0x00,0x00;"";"";;"";"";"";2;"\\%MDF3";"SMS";"IPM.SMStext";0;310;33;268697600;2007,03,27,09,23,40;2007,03,27,09,23,40;1;"851975\;Jingles\;+447887710073\;1\;0\;SMS";0;"") and again with the hex data.

I use Pocket Informant 2005 rather than POutlook, but my understanding is that the POutlook databases are the underlying data store.

My biggest issue is that I've lost the ability to sync with my PC - can't quite figure out why not (getting standard M$ unhelpful proxy errors:mad: ), so I haven't dared test the wipe/restore option just yet.

Hope you get to answer my issues.

Thanks,

Rém
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] The Cupid:
Very good! Thanks all so much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paulash:
I have about 16,000 total text messages (inbox and sent box). And it's taking quite a long time to back up.

It would do the whole process... retreiving MMS, retreive texts.. then itll say 16752 texts have been successfully saved.

Outlook Disconnected.

but the progress bar is still at less than 50%, except it doesn't move. Can someone please tell me what's wrong? Should it take a long time (hours)?? Will it ever finish?

EDIT- Nevermind mind, I think I found the answer
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kolba:
Hi,

Thanks for a great tool. Seems to work like a charm for me on a new upgrade to WM6 from here (0.75), Unfortunately they seem to introduce new directory structure for SMS/MMS, now its all in one section, ratehr then in two separate as it was before. Any sugegstions?

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] goody:
Does this software allow cross restore and cross backup between WM5 and WM6 devices?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LondonDweller:
Speed dials backup does not work with WM6

Great tool .Fred! Thanks very much.

I notice a few people have trouble with speed dials. I am on the same boat. They worked fine on my Xda Orbit with WM5; but since I upgraded to WM6, both with o2's original and cooked ones, it does not restore speed dials any more. If I restore an old backup from WM5, it will restore up to 8 and then bomb out. Any backup from WM6 will result in no restore.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LondonDweller:
I used it to move my PIM information, including phone history, SMS messages and (most) speed dials from WM5 to WM6. It's great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zakeen:
Would it work for me to install this on WM5(make backup of contacts) and then install WM6 and then extract my contacts into WM6?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdvsa:
PIM Backup 2.6

Hello,

I am a new user of the most recent PIM tool. I want to be able to export the text msgs from PDA to my computer and then delete them all from PDA. I have around 8K text messages so there are quite a few. The issue I have is that when I start to backup the text messages all is well until it says disconnecting from Outlook. I do not get the 'EXIT' option like I did when I backed up my contacts.

Can the PIM tool handle a large number of text messages? I let the run for awhile thinking that it would finish but it did not.

Let me know.

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LondonDweller:
As per my previous message, that is exactly what I did. It will work fine. The only potential problem you will have (which is not a major one) is that you may loose Speed dials from the phone; if you are bothered at all by them, that is.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ndiqbal:
THANKS

Thanks for the s\w. I will give this a try.

Kind Regards

Nadz
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jetcat33:
Can download, unzip, but not edit.

Hi Fred! THanks for the great application. In your description, you state that:

I can unzip the .pib file and see the .pba, .pbc, .pbl, etc. files. However, when I open them in textpad or Excel (Windows), the file contents are scrambled. I *can* see some text which I could modify, but why are the files still scrambled? I installed your 2.5 WM2003 version.

Sincerely,

jetcat33
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Garcia:
Hi Dotfred,

I am using the tool quite often - flashing too much - and noticed that if you restore emails these cannot be opened.

It's not a big deal as I just leave them out and download again.

Appart from that it's a great tool saving a lot of time.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cremone:
I wasn't able to restore the messages in an upgrade from WM5 italian to WM6 english on an HTC prophet.

Everything else went fine (contacts, tasks, appointments); maybe tis is due to uncorresponding folder tree?

Did anyone else have this problem? If yes, is it possible to fix it manually?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kambasana:
artemis restore problem

hi i have backed up on my artemis with wm5,The backup completed ok, then upgraded to wm6. Now when i try to restore is does not file anything at all, i cannot see a backup on the storage card. I have searched the phone. How can i restore my data
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] msrivastava:
Any inputs on this point from anyone?

Appreciate the help.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] McDoPDA:
for SmartPhone too ?

hello,

I want to save my sms on my HTC S620 (Excalibur) and put them on HTC TyTN. Is it possible ? Does your programm work on the HTC S620 which is a smartphone, not a pdaphone ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [BT]Black V:
I must say I have never used this function but if you select custom then options (the button not the menu item, really should get the renamed to settings or something so people know they are 2 diffrent things) you can then add file and directories you want to backup

You have to select a item from the list of things you are backing up befire the options button becomes avalible (i.e. messages or custom)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] yankeefr78:
Unable to recover Contacts on M600 running WM6

Hello,

I was very happy to find your utility to restore my contacts as ACTIVESYNC is not working.

I have a M600 Orange that I have upgraded to WM6 Phrophet Touch PDAVIET. Evrything is working fine except the synchronization with a Windows XP PC.

When using the PIMBackup (2.5) on my previous phone (Qtek 8310), it generates the .pib backup file. When restoring this file on the M600, evrything is OK till I get the message "Couldn't access contacts collection".

Of course, no contacts have been restored. My contacts DB contains 603 contacts. I have tried in binary and text formats,, using the .PBC file, but nothing seams to work.

Can you please help me ?

BR
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blazeguru:
I do select things, but the button is never available. When I start PIMBackup all checkboxes are selected, but the options button is not available. Also when I deselect all checkboxes except custom, the options button is not available. I use the WM2003SE version on a WM2003SE device. Is this normal behaviour ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ace-steal:
DotFred, nice work !!

I've been looking a long time for such piece of software !!

But does it backup also sent sms's? I cannot find in the backup file none sent sms's I've sent.

EDIT:

I just found that in export file there are lines with sms's that I sent, but it contains no text:

0x00,0x00;"";"";;"";"";"";2;"\\%MDF3";"SMS";"IPM.SMStext";0;84;41;268697600;2007,02,18,15,29,47;;1;"851981\;Secret Name\;+420xxxxxxxxx\;1\;0\;SMS";0;""

This is sent sms but column with text is'nt stored at all.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dineshh:
PIM Backup 2.5

Dear Sir,

This is an excellent tools and I use it often to backup

SMS

Call Logs

Speed Dials

Appointments

Contacts.

It fails to restore Speed dials in WM6 on my Atom Life.

It transfers anniversary data to Birthday data in Contact details on WM6

WM5 data is not restored on WM6.

SMS restoration is excellent.

Dinesh
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lentest:
Thanks for the software!

It will be very handy:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gambal1:
:)

great work. this tool is such useful and professional. I use spb backup1.61 before, but when i restored i find i couldnt. it made me crazy.

thx again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pooper:
I'm about to backup my data on a WM5 phone, then restore it onto my new MW6 Kaiser - are there any "known issues" with doing this (i've flicked through this thread and didn't see anything, but i just wanted to check!)

EDIT: I can see that merely copying the pim.vol from one SKU to another will cause errors, but can you export/backup from WM5, then import/restore to WM6?!

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] WhoDunnit:
Great!

Thanks for the great work! I have been looking for weeks everywhere for a means to copy my calendar and PIM stuff from my old PPC2003 to my newer WM5 machine. I cannot use activesync since my old PDA's connector is broken. PIMBackup really saved my day! Hooray!:D

asch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polino:
Does this utility work on wm6? I have to install the wm5 version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jamesus:
Works for me on WM6.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polino:
Which version works correctly on WM6?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jamesus:
I use 2.5 or whatever is current
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] manstt:
Program fantastic!!!!!

I was deprived of hope, I had my pocket device that it did not succeed to connect itself with the active sync. It did not make me to install some application and I did not know like saving my data!!

I have found this fantastic one and I more repeat fantastic program that has saved to me all and also on rows. A six myth!

Infinites compliment to the denveloper!

Thanks

manstt

:) :) :) :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] manstt:
the program is PIM Backup - v2.5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polino:
Of course the last release, but I've to install the one for wm5?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jamesus:
That should be the one
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cyber-mate:
Can't restore my messages!

Installed PPC PIM Backup 2.5 and have backed up my SMS messages including SENT items. Now that I am trying to restore, nothing gets restored! Although the number of messages show the correct items!

After when the process is over, it just does not restore anything!

Any help?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] argosafe:
I have a similar issue with restoring speed diuals. PIMbackup says there are 38 records being restored, but all that happens in that the device soft resets, then manages to delete all speed dials exceptvoiucemail. Any ieas? (I'm using the 2003SE version BTW
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] asina12:
Problem restoring SMS

hello,

I made a backup of my outlook e-mail and SMS prior to updating my ROM for Dopod 818pro.When I restored only the outlook e-mails were restored eventhough according to the program,the sms were in the backup eg. there were 359 messages in my inbox.

I don't mind not having my sms on my phone so I tried opening it with excel and what came out was a jumbled up text.Please tell me how I can restore my sms so that I can read it properly.

thx.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] srainess:
Text Format for Message Backup

Thanks for the wonderfull work. Did a full backup, no problem

have not tried restoring yet though. My goal, actually, is to find

a way to either sync, or backup just text messages to a PC for

further reference down the road. Have quite a few messages, which

take up memory with no way to erase all/backup. I backed up my

WM5 pda, and tried to examine the 'msgs_20070916.pbm' file. Is there

a way to import this into readable format ? Notepad has it undelimited.

Thanks for the hard work...

-Steve
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kgovan:
I successfully backed up and restored my call log and contacts, and I also backed up my messages, but when I go to restore my messages, it says 0 records are found, although, the file is 1.58 megs, and I opened it on my PC with Notepad and there are messages in there. How do I restore my texts??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] myownregister:
hi DotFred,

i have used your app to backup but never had the chance to really try restoring. this time i did. all areas a restoring fine except the contacts. it doesn's restore any even though it said it did successfully. i have an ipaq hx2495 (plain pda) running WM5. :( i was wondering if i missed any specific setting to assure a successful backup and restore of contacts. would you happen to have any tips?

i was however very successfull in using you older PPCcontactsBackup utility and it did really restore all my contacts successfully. (i use both your apps to backup to havea fail-safe plan) :) thank you veeeeeeery much for sharing your apps!

regards,

myownregister
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] esselite:
Anybody Reads This?

Hey, the users are reporting that the restoring doesn`t work. You got some support for them or not?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mullisj:
WM6 Encryption Keys Backup!

WM6 Encryption Key Backup!

This would be an awesome addition to the app.

There is only ONE application that I could find that does this.

Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks

-J
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] epimazzo:
Hi Dotfred!

I've been using a lot version 2.5 and always got a weird issue related to text messages while restoring messages from the past 30 or more days. I actually do not know if it's a real WM6 problem or it can be an internal issue of PimBkp. You probably knows the answers better than me!:rolleyes:

It happens all the time. I just got the whole text message from the last week or two which doesn't happen with messages later than that.

Any particular ideia around it?

thanks in advance...

Rgs:cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turbodebeselis:
very need *.cab !!! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jamesus:
I made a simple cab for this and would post if ok with DotFred...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] The Dutchman:
Is it possible to bacup it to a .ctt file so that I can add my lost messenger contacts to msn again? In some way I lost all my contacts (except one ''jippie'') but they are still in my phone's contacts list. anyone ideas? thnx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] odigon:
Hello...i tryed usind older versions of PIM om my tytn with wm6 and everything worked fine...try it too...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] louislsh:
may i know how to report a bug? i found that v2.5 will mix up anniversary day with birthday when i restore it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Diesis:
Firstly, I would tell you that I appreciate very much your software. I'm an Opensource lover, so my suggestion is to release it as Opensource ;)

I have a little suggestion for you: manage the email accounts too. I have 2 imap accounts configured on the Trinity, so when I hard reset, it is sufficient for me to reconfigure the accounts to download messages again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr_Gee:
Great program, but for some reason it doesn't alway do what it is supposed to..

I'm trying to only restore my appointments, and when I run the program it just exits without any notification...

I tried it again with "verbose" checked and i see that it does does do something but after the 4th appointment it also exits..

as mentioned before is there a way to read the appointment file?

i tried in excel and notepad but that didn't look good, as long as I can read the description and date i'm fine

Thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jahrami:
very useful tool - just been tested on hTC p3300
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DSF:
indeed , very useful.. i've managed to backup / restore on Wm5 and WM6 smartphones (spv c500, spv c600).

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nrm:
Great program- I can transfer my calendar from my HTC X7500/WM6 to my Ipaq 2755/WM2003 with no problem!

ActiveSync seems to have problems doing the transfer.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] c_shekhar:
Prob with wm6

Hi fred,

I have noticed one problem with the ver 2.5 of this marvelous software. It is about speeddial backup.

When I backup the call log, messages(only SMS) and speeddial and restore them after the hard reset, the speeddial dont get restored. There are 1+7 speed dials on my device. it only restores 1 and not the remaining 7.

Whereas the same speeddials can be restored if I backup only the speeddials. I can send you the bckup files if you need them for analysis..regards...c_shekhar