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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MizGarfield:
Retrieve appointments

I am a longtime user of this program. Very happy with backup and restore (when I remember to send the file to my PC for safekeeping - storage card became corrupt).

Now I am trying to import my appointments into my google calender without using outlook or my sync program. So I backed up, I copied the file to my PC and now I am trying to read it in excel before I convert it to .csv.

Any help will be appreciated.

Edit:

Did some more reading and I understand that in the next version it might be possible to export to csv. So I keep my fingers crossed for this to happen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anya618:
hi, im also a long time user of ppcpimbackup. ive been using this on my atom exec wm5

now i just bought an htc hd2, will ppcpimbackup work on wm6.5?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] onesolo:
Yes it works...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DavidinCT:
Another long time user...great program btw...

Any word on MMS images ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abs_dear:
I copied the pimbackup.exe on my diamond. But i can not launch it. Can anyone pls help me how to install or run the exe file???

Do I need a cab for it??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
I think you need something like

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544181

But it still has bugs. Maybe it works for you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jusu_d:
I've been using PIMBackup (Thanks dotfred!), and added the MMS data directory to backups; I haven't completely figured out the file format, but made a small python script that looks for JPEG signature bytes and extracts the images. If Dotfred is willing to add support, I might as well try to document the whole fileformat?

(I'm not a frequent on this board, but will try to follow this thread regarding previous.)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] neil_swann80:
Hey, mr.dotfred... I love your application. Any chance you can add command line functionality? I pledge a 20 euro donation if you can! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] romualdrichard:
Hi,

Thanks for this application which is very useful.

Few questions:

- Why having [NEW] in this thread with a 2008 application?

- There is some issue with 6.5.3 I think about the restoring interface, it's not easy to toggle options and choose which file you want to restore. It's messing betwwen tick, icons...

- With the new feature of HTC Messaging, VIP, it seems that the order in the Database or an other information is needed. I mean, that if you are restoring from a backup contacts, you loose the VIP list, even if you have saved the registry entry containing this list (list of number)

Cheers,

Rom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] henryfranz2005:
i use this for backing up my contact list :) thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dany16v:
Hi, I've made a backup of my contact list few days ago. Now my phone is died :(

Can I open my backup files in Windows environment (desktop)?

Thanks a lot :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] User_99:
Rename your backup file e.g. backup.xyz to backup.ZIP - it's a zipped file. You can open it on your PC
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dany16v:
Thanks, but when I rename my backup file in to .zip, I've a file with .pbc extensions.

How I can open it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lang_it_ex:
This is an awesome program that I find so useful :). Thanks for who developed this. However, I think I'm having trouble with restoring huge amount of SMSes. My SMS database have about 8000 SMS and after a successful restore, the PPC became painfully slow. I've retried a few dozen of times. Restoring 500 contacts won't create any problem, but the SMS is problem.

I'm running Shifu 4.3 on my TyTn2 - Kaiser.

Thanks for any advice.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi,

This is normal behaviour if the sms threading mechanism is active. In such case, the tmail application will index all your smses in a new database and of course this takes a lot of time to achieve + the ongoing restore of the SMSes.

The way to restore SMSes is the following:

1) disable threaded sms feature in the registry. Create the key and value if they don't exist

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\OEM]

"SMSInboxThreadingDisabled"=0x00000001

2) soft reset

3) kill outlook (tmail.exe) to be sure it is not running during the restore

4) launch pim backup and do the restore

5) enable threaded sms by deleting the preceding registry value mentioned in point 1 or by changing its value to 0

6) soft reset

7) open outlook and let it rebuild the threaded database, this will take a

while having a lot of SMSes, but it works, so be sure your device is plugged in so it won't empty the battery.

Do the last 2 steps just before going to bed for instance

.:cool:

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr_mpeg:
csm format

...problem solved ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MaDa_010i:
i'm have backup contacts file with check "Binary backup (faster)" & i'm try restore it but error msg "type invailed" & when open it with WINRAR sayes "unknown format"

how fix it :(

the file in attachment
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] klochok:
quastion

Hi,

I might missed the theme, so i`m sorry for that. My englysh is not so good.

so,

i have that kind of problem

few monce ago i did i reserved copy of my contacts with PIM Bacup 2.8

As a result i`ve got a file nemed PIMBackup_20100529.pib

BUT

few days ago i lost my old phone and bought apple iphone 4

how can i get the contacts from the file and put them to the apple?

ps I unipped the file and got 7 files like: appts_20100813.pba contacts_20100813.pbc clogs_20100813.pbl and so on...

But still I don`t know what to do with all this stuff

HELP HELP HELP

SOS
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pho_shizzle:
I was wondering if you can use the back up file you have created interchangeably with different roms? For instance, if I make a backup file before flashing to a new rom, will I still be able to use that back up to restore my contacts, settings, etc on the new rom?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
I think you make i kind of joke with us. Ask in a iPhone forum. We don't use iPhones here. You have the unzipped files, now you have to ask iPhone users. We use windows mobile phones here in this thread :confused:, i think.

Possible you can copy and paste things out of these files with GVIM. A unix like editor for windows.

BTW:

Better you put away this iiiPhone thing and come back to WM :D;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nbhor:
Failed to load on WM 2003 SE

Hi I am trying to run PPCPimBackup.exe from total commander on MPX220 (WM 2003SE). But each time, I run the app, I encounter screen freeze. I have to go to home page, use resource mgr to kill all the tasks.

Any suggestion (beside not using MPX220 ;) If you can share older version, I will try those as well.

Thanks -nbhor
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] biernes_atrece:
yes. + 1 to this suggestion :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mdpgc:
Got a problem. I created a pib file from the PIM Backup utility. Is there a way I can convert that file to a .csv to place contacts back on a phone that was WM and is now Android.

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bilygiat:
how do i view saved data from calander?

i saved lot of data at calander and had backup into sdcard by Pimbackup.

can i view it at computer? and hope u guys give ideal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] soma900:
If you uncheck "compress backup" and "binary file" then the backup file is actually a RAR. You can extract the content and view it as an .csc file in Excel. You know what to do then.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saragde:
I have all my contacts saved in pib file. But I had installed android in my htc hd2 and connot add my contacts. How to convert it? Maybe some1 has any ideas how to bring those contacts to my android, because now I'm withou any contacts.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rshabou:
any idea when mms backup and restore will be allowed?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drakkahn:
I'm pretty sure development ceased on this quite awhile ago.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cosmin_f:
Hi gusy!

It is possibile to import pim backup files from htc hd2 WM 6.5 to an android phone( htc desire hd)??

Can you give me some instructions how to do it?

You are the best!

Manny thx!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] QuentinX5:
SMS Backup Fail?

I understand the backup SMS function is rarely new, but I have been having some... issues with it, regarding restoring the files.

I have made two attempts at restoring my old sms files from my phone, only to never successfully get past the screen that says "Retrieving accounts and folders". I don't know if it is my phone or if I am doing something wrong, but every time I have tried to restore it, I have given it a time period of about two days. After those two days, the program just closes, and I cannot get back to where it was loading. I understand some of the problem might be the amount of text messages I had on file, but I figured that it still should not take two days to restore...

I have tried some previous steps provided on page 148 by dotfred:

To no avail. The above solution does not change any of the problem, and just leaves me questioning if I will ever be able to restore my text messages. The phone is a HTC Tilt 2 running Simplicity OS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gera229:
Great tool.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gio300zx:
PIM Backup 2.8 .exe freezes HD and fails to install

Hallo. I have used PIM Backup with other ROMs on the same Touch HD.

I am now using [ROM][WWE][02.12.10]blackSTONEhenge™ (WM6.5.3.28244/Manila 2.1) v6.3 and can't install PIM Backup 2.8

I downloaded the .zip file from dotfred OK and unzipped it to PPCPimBackup.exe, copied it to My Documents folder on the Touch HD, tapped it to start it running and then the Touch HD just froze. File Explorer stayed there but no button worked. Had to do soft reset to get it working again. This happens everytime.

Your suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mijanareia:
I can't restore using a backup file that was made a few hours ago with Pim Backup v2.8. I used it once but I had to reinstall the new ROM and now it doesn't work. After choosing the backup file and pressing next e opens a window saying "PBM File Error - Invalid messages file"

I really need the backup file to work.... I had all my contacts there. Any way to fix this?:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gaurav1115:
thanks

thanks ...grt tool...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] simone929:
Thank you very much!!!! Now it works!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] florisz1:
Invalid file format. nothing done

I have the exact same problem.

I did a backup of everything.(not compressed and not binary) Then deleted all appointments(via options).

Then I restored all appointments, but after finisched no appointment is shown.

Then I tried the same thing again(restore of only appointments) which resulted in 'Invalid file format. nothing done'.

What can I do to get my appointments back? (I only have a backup at myphone.microsoft.com, but this does not have the extra info(notes) of the appointments)

thanx in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] VictorC666:
Hello,

thanks for great tool,

would it be possible to ad function to backup/restore custom ringtone settings, whitch is stored only in pim.vol with every contact and is impossible to do it other way than manualy now? I dont want to use other ways to define custom ringtones like mortring etc. I prefer to use internal ringtone setting in every contact detail and this setting is stored directly in pim.vol but is not synced to outlook so its impossible to back it up and restore after ie HR :[

I think it would be piece of cake for you ;]

VicC
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tdzr:
I should've read this post before I flashed my Touch2 last night :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mac_es:
Search for VipRingTone (in this forum), you can create an xml for automatted restore...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nairafortune:
Can Dotfred or anyone out there come to my rescue

I had to perform a hard reset on my HTC HD2 earlier today and ofcourse I did backup all data with the PPCPimBackup software. My headache right now is that restoration is impossible. The response says

PIM restore error

The format of the file "\Storage Card\PIM Backup_20110509.pib" is invalid

Please someone help me out. I need to have my contacts back. Someone referred me here saying Dotfred or one of the bright guys here will be able to help me out.

Hope someone sends some help sometime soon. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nairafortune:
I need help

I had to perform a hard reset on my HTC HD2 earlier today and ofcourse I did backup all data with the PPCPimBackup software. My headache right now is that restoration is impossible. The response says

PIM restore error

The format of the file "\Storage Card\PIM Backup_20110509.pib" is invalid

I guess the backup was done in the binary format. Please someone help me out. I need to have my contacts back. Someone referred me here saying Dotfred or one of the bright guys here will be able to help me out.

Hope someone sends some help sometime soon. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Panikos:
extract contacts to excel

Found a lot of people asking this and no solution so here is mine

To do this when the files are in binary format (compressed option in PIMbackup) I used the Windows Mobile SDK. I run an emulator for WM6.5 and set a shared directory via the emulator options.

On the pc side I put my PIMbackup and the PIMbackup WM executable. I then went to the storage card and run PIM to restore all contacts (an error came up but I clicked it away and action completed successfully).

I then did a backup with PIM and made sure to untick all options (mainly the compress one). When the backup finishes you can close down the emulator.

Then on the pc side find the new file, rename to .zip and extract. Inside there is a .csc file. Open excel and try to open this file. Excel will bring up a wizard for importing data. Choose semicolon as a delimeter and import.

The contacts should all be there. Select columns containining numbers and format them to be of type number with 0 decimal places.

Thats it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fr0stbyte:
worst program ever developed

thanks for nothing.

how can anyone design a program that will backup to a folder on a storage card when there is no storage card in the device.

now while you exit the application and restard it again it will see the folder on the restore part of the the program on top of the screen and when pressing restore it will do so but since there is no storeage card it will f$%ck up all contacts.

as of now i have lost all contacts from this device.

jeese never heared of building in warnings or failsafes or even better a way to let you see what you backed up before restoring it.

arghhhhhhh
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Panikos:
are you sure you are talking about the same program? because this one has an option asking where to backup from where to restore, what to restore etc
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tantan911:
Hi;

I have an issue and hope you all can help me out , i have HTC HD2 Windows mobile , and took a backup from my contacts and everything .. my contacts exported as .pbc ... now i did install android system on my mobile and want to retrieve that data , i tried to convert it to .csv and it's opened but outlook does not accept importing the file ... i need to import that .pbc into outlook so i can sync my contacts to my mobile

Any ideas ?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Panikos:
http://www.google.co.jp/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=48a6d27fbe780684&hl=en

third link when doing a google search for "import contacts into android from excel"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] backb0ne:
PIM Backup Error

I am not able to run PIM Backup file, always gives me the same error on the computer "It is not a valid win32 application"

Any solution?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gary_Star:
I'm using this program for about 2 years now on 4 or 5 different HTC devices. Always the backup and the restore process was perfect. I never had problems with corruption of data or anything else. The only "downside" is that I need now a version of this program for Android :))) But for Windows Mobile this program is the best for backup the personal data (contacts, SMS, tasks, appointments).

P.S. Maybe the creator of the program will see this comment and start to make a version for Android too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gary_Star:
If you switch from Windows Mobile to Android and want to synchronize all your contacts, calendar appointments and emails between Win-Mo and Android you can use Microsoft Exchange Active Sync from your Win-Mo device configured with the Google as Exchange Server. The configuration is very simple and you can follow steps indicated in the first page resulted from Google search for "Setting Up Your Windows Mobile Phone for Google Sync "

Attention !

The tasks synchronization is not yet supported and you MUST not check it or you will get error and nothing will be synchronized.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stifa:
Hi...

Is it possible to view backed-up SMS messages on the PC? .... I want to get another phone but cant because I need SMS messages from certain individual as evidence for getting a visa...its complicated...

ALL I NEED is to send SMSes from the phone to my email or to the PC (and view them and print on the PC)

Doing backup with this software gives me .bin file I cant use.

HELP PLEASE...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dnova1:
Problems after hard reset for me, been using this program for some time know with no problems. It does an auto backup every night and saves a file in my storage card looks like this, "\storagecard\pimbackup_20110912.pib. When I go to restore it tells me its invalid.

Can this be recovered? Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] evolvtyon:
Just to confirm, this does not support WP7, correct ?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reachalex:
Can I restore the backed up file on to a computer. If "Yes", How? I am sorry, I have not read through the entire post.

Please Help. My PPC TP2 is now officially half dead. No display for more than 2 weeks now. I want to restore the contacts onto my computer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mister B:
new update V2.8.5

Version 2.8.5:

- fix issue with list view using custom states

- warning popup message in case encryption mechanism is active on sdcard

- error popup message in case the backup failed

- fix issue of exceptions in appointments
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TD2IN:
Good to see a new update from this superb application :)

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] powerofthink:
always use this.. perfectt..

Version 2.8.5:

- fix issue with list view using custom states

- warning popup message in case encryption mechanism is active on sdcard

- error popup message in case the backup failed

- fix issue of exceptions in appointments[/QUOTE]

thanks.. i always use this, except contacts. Contacts must be sync with outlook..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] themagoos:
I already use the PIM Backup v2.8.5 for WM 6.1 and it runs well, and really loves this app.

but I want to ask, why the check box on the message option disappear? I still can check or uncheck it but I can't see the box and the sign, so I never know what I check or what I uncheck. please fix this or tell me how to manage it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aYuki:
Move appointments from Windows Mobile to Android

After years with various Windows Mobile phones I'm now very happy with my new Android smartphone (Samsung Galaxy Note).

I always used PIM Backup on WiMo and managed to import all my contacts out of the backup file into my Android contact app. But I couldn't find any solution to import my appointments (gathered since 2003!). The PIM Backup output file "appts_2011xxxx.csa" seems not to be a readable format (strings like "0xe6,0xd2,0x9a,0x2a, ..." etc.).

I neither own Outlook nor want entrust Google with one single character of my personal data, so I'm desperately searching for a solution to keep my appointments. If I only could make any readable text out of this backup file...

May I dare to hope for a solution? Please help me. :confused:

Thanks

Edit [SOLVED]: :) :) :)

After rereading and reareading the PIM Backup user guide I stumbled upon one phrase which gave me a flash of inspiration:

"The backup is totally independent of the version of Windows Mobile"

I remembered my old Pocket PC 2003 (somewhere in the depths of my drawers) and my (at that time) compatible old version of Outlook 97 with the corresponding Active Sync version. So I reactivated this PPC, restored the actual PIM Backup from the WiMo 6.5 Phone on it, and ... - ... I couldn't believe it - managed to sync it to the aged Outlook and from there into a readable *.csv format which I can edit and then import in the Android calender "Jorte".

Thank you DotFred, your PIM Backup saved my a...!!! ;)

(I just made a small donation via PayPal)

Karin
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tsalta:
I need HELP

Hello i have need from someone who want to make me a favor and help me.

Im ex Blackstone user and i move to Android.

I did some updates etc and i lost all my contacts from the SIM card and everything.

THe good news is that i still have on my PC a PIMbackup.pib file but its made like binary one..

There is a chance to get my contacts back!!!

WHat i need is someone with WinMo device can do it for one minute.

Just to run Pimbackup on his own Device and to restore the Contacts from the .PIB file i will provide

After this is done just re Backup them again BUT in normal mode without binary etc

in this case the final .pib file will be able to transfer it to a zip .csv file and Put all the contacts back in my SIM card via Gmail

So if somene want to help me will be really thankfull for that its emergency.

The other variant if someone do not want to use HIS device is to do the same procedure with a Windows Mobile Emulator but i don`t know how to work with this and make it to work on my desktop PC i already try several hours to set up everything but just not working

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aYuki:
Hi tsalta,

I could help you and re-backup your contacts. I just sent you a PM.

Edit:

Somehow it seems, that's not possible to send you PM's.

Although I sent the message twice, it's not shown in my PM outbox.

Give me a hint how I can contact you, because I don't want to post my eMail address in public.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mister B:
emulator is way to go, used it a lot for manipulating PIM formats ect, send me file or download link in PM & I will do it on emulator or my spare WM device.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pupakota:
....pib is JUST rar.

after unpacking, ALL YOU NEED is...total commander + its lister + unicode VIEW.

then you have some copy-paste work, thats ALL.

notice then, that ppcpimbackup would be ULTIMATE tool if only it had rar encryption built-in to protect our DATA.

thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mano75:
Again, the same old issues...

Hi everybody.

I recently flashed my HD2 with a new ROM (WM 6.5.X), hence, I previously backed up all my info with Pim Backup 2.8

Then it came the moment I wanted to restore my messages (SMS), just the messages because I'm also using Outlook 2007 and I have all my agenda and contacts there.

Ok, I restore them and I have all my messages back to my device. Everybody who sent me an SMS is properly tagged (John Doe, David, Claire, etc) but If I go to my contacts profile, there's no SMS from anybody, somehow they're not associated. :confused:

Has anybody had the same or similar issues?

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cheque:
BUG in 2.8.5

Dear Dotfred,

I encountered a major layout bug in the new version.

2.8.5 : on restore-mode, there are no checkboxes nor radiobuttons, like shown in my screenshots.

2.8.0: I tried to restore the same backup-file with the previous version, checkboxes are there.

my device: Htc HD mini (HVGA), WinMo 6.5.3 , custom ROM

Did anyone else experience this?