yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
You're absolutely right, but it doesn't matter which separator U use, because in a text this character can always appear, some rarely but it could happen anyway, and then you're fu..ed up again! :mad:

In most cases it works, but eh, nothing's perfect. That's why most backup applications use binary solution, it is much easier, faster and reliable...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Well I found the problem, and yes it is a bug, it will be resolved in v2.0

Any folder created at the same level as Inbox, Sent Items,... will not be created unless it has a subfolder. For subfolders of Inbox, Sent Items,... they are restored properly.

So the trick to solve the problem in the meantime is to add a "\" at the end of these folders in the backup file.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cheewee:
Hi Fred,

Thanks again. Looking forward to the new version. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cedlefou:
WM 2003 Smartphone pb

Hi everybody. Thank you dotfred for your work.

Well it seems the wm2003 version of your app doesn't want to function on my phone. It starts , i know it because xbar tells me, but no interface, nothing.

My phone is a Motorola MPX220 with wm2003.

Btw, it doesn't need .net CF to work, does it?

Any advice?

Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcespi2005:
Hi.

Well, i've used IM Backup many times after flash many WM56 & WM6 ROMs.

Finally i use only for backup/restore Call Log and Text Messages, cause the other stuff is in my exchange server :)

Well, today i've notice that the call backup take 300 entries...ok, seems good, but make a couple of calls, and redo the backup, and again 300 etries..

So the question is, the limit for the call log is in my phone (i suppose this), and every time i make a backup, lost the last backup (in the same day).

Can i suggest an incremental backup or/and partial restore (or date to date restore) that allows select dates to restore or samethnig like that?

On the other hand, there is a way to have a long call log?

Thanks for your help...and congratulations (again) for the PIM Backup :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J_Kirk:
Only the first message is imported!

Fred,

Your solution only imports the FIRST message of the custom folders, even with the added \. I've mailed you as well. Can you please take a look at my msgs file again? What needs to be done? I thought of adding extra folders at the end i.e. global replace \CC\ by \CC\1, but then PIM Backup refuses to import, saying the file contains errors. Some parsing problem, I'm sure, but I'm not sure how to fix it!

Thanks

Farhan.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
I had the new inbox configured for GMail and I did a backup.

I did hardreset to my ppc and restored the last backup (without configuring Gmail inbox). But it shows a garbage inbox after the restoration.

Anybody having this problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tigntaz:
help i think

the program seems to work well however when I went to restore the files in the email shows it not copying, ( I assume I just need to create taht email folder again first on my pda) but the texts, sms, and folders for those did not show up in the backup. Did I loose all of my texts taht I had?? thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] joe1402:
Similarly problem to me. But with version 1.5 all messages are shown and successfully restored. ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tigntaz:
doesnt help now

wish I wasnt so quick though I hardbooted my pda and so its all lost.. can I copy form my girlfriends and then repost the texts on my pda?>
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] treamer:
Hi Fred,

thank you for this coool tool :)

I'm using PIMBackup since version 1.2 so ... all goes fine with b&r, this saves many hours of restoring

On my Hermes (WM 6) the v.1.9 runs very well once and scheduled @ 3am :)

... I think there is a bug in using the potion "comress file" @ single run

... this option doesn't work, so the files also compressed without checked the option

Is it posible that also @ scheduled runs the compress option will works ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Andy Phillips:
Thanks dotfred! (additional note for BBC users!)

Thanks Dotfred...lovely app.

Just a quick note to all the Blackberry Connect users...

You MUST make a backup (copy) of the two files found in \Application Data\Rim\Blackberry\

BlackberryDB

BlackberryDB2

before making a backup of your mail..else your mails will come back but with headers only..and if you reset for any reason you lose them all again.

If restoring from a backup;

Restore mail messages then rename the two EXISTING files to BlackberryDBold or similar and then copy your saved files to that location.

Reset and all your BB mail will be back!

Andy.:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] taenadar:
Does it also works when u have like 3400 sms messages in it ? I tried it but it looked like it hang at a certain point.

I don't know if anyone had the same problems but just reporting ;)

this is on WM6 wizard
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
Scheduled Backup

Hi Dotfred,

Kudos to your great PIM backup program.:)

In order to use the scheduled backup, do I need to let the program running in background? I tried the scheduling function but it didn't work so I think the program must be resident to achieve it.

Kindly advise.

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] YoLoLo:
No, no need to run it in the background...

In fact, it adds an entry in the "notification" database with /SchedBackup...

But, i've noticed that when the EXE file is in the storage card, it sometimes fails..

So, i've put the EXE in main memory, AND the file location backup in the storage card... And i keep a copy of the EXE in the storage card, to allow restore of the file after a hard reset...

:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dadalala:
Dear DotFred,

May you tell me how to backup "pim.vol", I am now writing a program to backup "pin.vol", the way I backup "pim.vol" is use CopyFile to backup it. When restore, I rename the origianl "pim.vol" to "pimold.vol" and then copy my backup "pim.vol" to system. Sometimes system will appear data abort after restore. Should I terminate specific processes before backup/restore ?May you kindly to tell me the secret of how to backup/restore "pim.vol"?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
could u please add the option to backup palm threaded sms msgs? the file they are stored in is in \Windows and its PalmVol001 (i think). i use this pimvol backup app and would LOVE this feature as i constantly change roms..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
I see. How if I built the PIM Backup inside the ROM, is this the one causing the problem?

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi,

I've never heard of this file, I need more info on this, if it is just a file to save, then just copy it on your storage card...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
yea its just a file to save.. but thats an extra step! lol. id kill to have this feature in pim backup.. all u apprently do is move it from \windows\ to ur storage card and then back to \windows\ once u re-install the palm app if u have to format the phone
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi,

I will add an extra backup feature in a future version of the soft(maybe next one), because some people are also requesting notes backup.

So I will generalize the idea by adding a possibility to select file types in specified directories and specific files on the device main memory. They will be put in the zip file like the other files.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
great! that is a really good idea! ...maybe even make it possible to backup pictures from the my documents folder.. i sometimes forget to transfer them over b4 i flash or forget to set it to store to the storage card. i love this software it has so much potential!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] raid:
WM6 - slow on appointments

Hi all,

I've just flashed my wizard with the XDA mobile6 rom.

I've found that PIM Backup is so slow on appointments!

Is there any reason? Maybe due to wm6 ? Anyone have experienced that issue ?

Thanks a lot in advance...

Alessio.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jyavenard:
No progress after over 1 hour

Hi

Installed and ran the application for the first time today.

It will make no progress when performing a backup of my contact.

It shows:

"274 contacts to be retrieved." and that's it.

The application/pda isn't hanged, I can press the cancel button still or move in the status list.

How long is this supposed to take? Surely anything over 1 minute doesn't sound right.

Edit: This is running on WM6 / Black 3.5 Dymond

Thanks

Jean-Yves
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Jean-Yves,

Well, I really don't know what's happening. The only thing I can imagine, is that for some reason, the thread that does the backup crashed because of an unknown error, and so, nothing happens. But why the thread crashed, I really don't know. Sorry to say that, but the only thing I can do, is analyzing your pim.vol but then you have to send it to me!

My email is dotfred@dotfred.net, this is the only thing I can do.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jyavenard:
Ok..

This time it has completed the backup. But that took over one hour for 274 contacts !

Will send you the file later ...

JY
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sandrobber:
Feature Request

It would be nice to have an erase all function to erase all PIM such as Calander, Contacts, Tasks, and Messages.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zim2dive:
Perhaps an unexpected use for this...

More gory (and less concise details) in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1310700#post1310700

But essentially I did not properly prepare for my WM5->WM6 upgrade... I have my pim.vol from WM5 and am trying to convert to make happy with WM6.

I can put the old pim.vol on the device and use PIMBackup to read out the Appts and Tasks with success. Once I have done this, I can remove the WM5 pim.vol, put the empty WM6 pim.vol back there, and then "restore" with PIMBackup. This seems to be a good workaround..

PIMBackup does not seem to be able to read out my Contacts from the WM5 pim.vol (running under WM6). PI2007 can read the Contacts, but of course it doesn't seem to have any kind of export/backup abilities :)

Wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or how hard of a feature that would be...

In a nutshell I need to find a way to migrate my PIM info that does not involve adding it on my (work) Outlook DB.

Thanks,

Mike
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pcrisantes:
Need help with installation

Update: I was able to get the app to work and to backup the info onto my storage card, but now, how can i view, extract specific sms messages, etc on my pc? Is there a PIM viewer? also, it seems some other files were created or are there that i was unaware of before, like: _mem_Temp_, mxi_lang, mxip_notify, NUL, pim and i'm unable to access/open them.

---------

Hi, sorry, I'm a little slow at this new stuff...I tried installing both files to my blackjack, but still no-go....How do I know which file i need to download and where do i need to install it....Does it then need to be rebooted (which i tried and still no luck). thanks for your patience....

-paul
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] genesisgfx:
hi all sorry for asking but i have this msg coming up when i try to install the software.

! Cannot execute "C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rar$EX00.626\PPCPimBackup.exe"

can you help me please
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fireball2k:
Just copy it on your device and execute it there. It's not an executeable for windows.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lemon115:
Soft Reset after backup

I have a WM2003 SE Dell Axim X30. I noticed that each time I try to backup my contacts and appointments (I uncheck the other backup options such as mail etc - I don't need them backed up and don't have SMS messages, obviously), my Axim does a soft reset. :confused:

Is this normal?

Should I be worried about the 'auto' soft reset affecting programs/wiping out PIM information?

I am using the WM2003 version of PIM Backup and the only program running (besides the OS) is Magic Button v1.8 and TodayAgenda V0.9.50. I don't think Magic Button should cause any problems as it only closes programs (doesn't manipulate contacts etc). Would TodayAgenda conflict with PIM Backup to result in a soft reset?

I tried searching the thread but didn't see any other posts addressing this, but I may not have noticed it buried in all the comments.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pcrisantes:
view backup

can u view the file backup on your pc? How do you do it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] guro:
hi everybody,

i'm very new to this all so this is my first question.

until now i had a german WM5 version on my Pda and i did a complete backup of all importent things with your great software.

then i updatet to WM6 but an english version. i managed to get most thinks back with the help of this software, but my SMS and MMS-folders are named the english way and so your backup could not restore them, because they are german-named ;)

any sugestions to solve this problem? i think just rename the folders in the backup from german to the english equivalent would work fine, but how to?

thanks so far and sorry for my terrible english

greets

guro
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Just rename pim.vol and do a soft reset, it is much faster!

And concerning the messages, I prefer to avoid that, because when you have several thousand of messages, well you can sit for a long time, the device is almost unusable, anyway it is the case on my ppc.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I'm using the POOM interfaces to access data from pim.vol, I don't use direct db access, so it is normal that it doesn't work because your pim.vol is not correct for that OS.

Download the Windows Mobile 2005 device emulator, put your pim.vol and Pim backup there and create the backup.

Cheers,

Fred

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Pim backup application is just an executable that you can put wherever you want on your pocket pc. It creates a pib file which is simply a zip file.

Copy this file on your pc, rename the extension by zip. Open the file, you will see "cs..." files which are comma separated values files. You can open them simply with notepad, but also with excel

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi forget about the MMS stuff, it still doesn't work!

Concerning the folders, well this will change in next release, but for now, yes, you just have to rename them.

This has already been explained several times here in the posts, but anyway I will update the first one.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] YoLoLo:
Great !

Version's number updated at http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php !

:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
does 2.0 allow PalmMSGV001 backup?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] baralong:
.Fred, you are fantastic!

On tuesday this week I moved from my k-jam to a dopod C730 (awesome device, smartphone though) but the language was different. This morning (perth time) there's a fix for the language folder name problem and I'm a happy man :)

The only thing on my wish list now is for it to fit a qvga landscape smartphone screen. I could try to post some screen shots to show you what I mean, if you think you have time.

Cheers,

Baralong

ps anythoughts to make this donation ware? Got a paypal account or an amazon wish list or something?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
Congrats to the new version.

What is binary backups btw, I thought the backup file .pib is in binary format?

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcute:
Congrats to the new version too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CWKJ:
@DotFred

Tried the remove Zero Bytes files in \Windows\Messaging\ , its working fine on v1.9.

Downloading v2.0 now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] killabee44:
worked great...

For those moving from a WM5 PPC to a WM6 PPC...

Since it wasnt clear to me at first, you have to install this app to your WM5 device AND on your WM6 device (i thought it would work with the pim.vol file directly).

First open it on your WM5 device and do a backup.

You then take that backup off your device via activesync (file browse) and put it on your WM6 device.

Then open PIM backup on your WM6 device and do a restore using the backup you moved over from your WM5 device.

Simple but kind of confused me at first. I hope this helps someone else...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
Hi,

the scheduled backup is working, however, I find that it backups everything.

In manual backup, I can choose to backup only sms and nothing else. Can it be done for scheduled backups?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
The .pib file is indeed binary but it is just a zip file. No, binary backups means that there is no conversion in text mode for non text fields. So binary and numeric values remain as they are. The advantage is that the backup/restore process is much faster because there is no parsing and conversion to do. Cheers, Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
You have to do it as if you had to do it manually. So after selecting messages on the backup window, the options button becomes available, there you select what kind of messages and folders you want to backup, then you go to the schedule dialog and you create your scheduled task. Cheers, Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
That's what I did, choose all the options, then validate the schedule. But all things are backed up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MikeWalsh:
PIM Backup 2.0 on Smartphone 2003se

I tried PPCPimBackupV2.0_wm2003se on my Smartphone 2003 SE but sadly I can't get it to work correctly. Actually I can't get it to start properly. I can execute the process but I can never switch to it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thedesp:
Hi

Thanks for such a useful program !!

I experienced schedule problem in version 1.9.

This version fixed that but there is another problem with file size.

The output from scheduled backup is a lot bigger than the output from manual backup.

(500k vs 30k , everything selected, manual backup without compression is about 170k)

It happens on both text and binary backup.

Am I the only one experiencing this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
Thanks Fred, got it now:)

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] maevro:
Cool, looks like it is working on my phone, thanks a lot for the great work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jwzg:
Registry Settings for file association

dotfred, do you have a registry file available for file assoc. settings? That way we can just click on the files themselves without having to open the program. Great for one stop restorations. Another future option would be a fill association check tab like you have in task manager for reg. files.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi jwzg,

The associations are made at startup of the program. So you have to launch it at least once to make the associations available.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thedesp:
any comment, please...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jwzg:
Thanks Fred. You don't overlook much, do you?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Iam geting a softreset, on my QTEK 9090 when closing after the "about" and when backing up.It doesn't finish the backup.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
No you're right, it will be fixed in v2.1, coming soon...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bciiO3:
it's a great software, and it is *FREE*, i can't wait 2 use it:)

Thx a lot~
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thedesp:
:D Heh Thanks. I didn't know it was a bug.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NIC0LAS:
Edit contacts

Hello,

Thanks for you program.

Is there a way I can edit my contacts in an editor and then upload them to my wm5 ?

Thanks,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
Dear DF,

Task backup in binary has some issues. Actually backup has no issue but I cannot restore it if the task backup has taken in binary mode.

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Ranju,

you're right, I forgot to change the ID of backup file type. So if you open the .pbt file in an hex editor, change PBA by PBT (first 3 bytes of the file) and it will work. It will be fixed in next release.

Sorry about that.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
Thank you, it works now.

But I just discovered another problem right now:

I did the backup with v2 and restored everything after the hard-reset.

-My call logs are not there. :eek:

-All the appointments showing in the same day...one by one. :eek:

Regards,

Ranju
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
It works fine on mine ?!?!?!

Except the problems of the tasks binary file, the rest is working properly. I have a Wizard running WM6 and the binary backup/restore works ok.

For call logs, maybe the table doesn't exist yet, just a guess, can you begin a phone call so you have an entry in the call logs table, and then do the restore, to see if it works...

Honestly I didn't change anything special in the process, except the way the info is stored in the files, the rest remains the same... So I don't know what could have happened. I can have a look if you want, just send the file here dotfred@dotfred.net

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MikeWalsh:
dotfred, any idea if it should work on Smartphone 2003se? If not, do you think you could make a port to the platform?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
Hi DF,

I found it...this problem occurred only if I unchecked binary mode during backup.

Hope it will help you to investigate.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
How can you uncheck binary mode during a backup?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
oppppsss...

there are four check-box in the backup mode (on second screen) and one of them is "binary backup (faster)".

problem is generating by unchecking this check-box.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markquinton:
I've been using v2 but for some reason, the backup files have leapt up from 30kb to 300kb. The files are only this size when run from the schedule. If I initiate a backup myself then the files are 30kb in size again. Any reason for this error?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vp3G:
Known issue with 2.0. See posts #348, 353, 356.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BardiaN:
Thanks A Lot!

Thats the best Backup Program i've ever seen,

but I have a magician and your Program Version2 does'nt work,and just Version 1.9 Worked Correctly.

good luck
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markquinton:
Ahh right, sorry should have really read back though the posts but I have to admit to being slightly lazy!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J_Kirk:
Quick help needed.. want to convert binary to text..

Hi Fred,

You helped me out before as well.. my tasks weren't restoring due to some parsing errors. You replaced some double quotes and it worked. Same problem again.. I backed up my pim data using v2.0, this time in binary. Surprise.. it won't restore again! But now I can't even edit the tasks file! What to do??

Thanks for any help.. which is needed badly here..

I think for future, all backups should be in text and not binary, cause parsing errors could always be there..

Farhan.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
comment please!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Farhan,

It should be something else, because, there is no parsing needed in binary mode.

Please send your task file to dotfred@dotfred.net, I will check where the problem can be...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I really don't know, could you please try again with new version, and also explain in more details...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blazeguru:
Soft reset after backup

After making a backup, a soft reset occurs. As far as I can see the backup

is complete, but it's not nice te perform a soft reset. I have a Qtek S100. I am shure I used

the WM2003 edition (although is says in de about screen that it's a "WM2005

and above" version).

Greetings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
finally! custom file backup! omg i love you dotfred! it works with the threaded sms palmmsgv001 file perfectly!