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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ravenlord:
I have a lot of sms (more than 18000) and when I restore it the backup doesn't go on (this block about at 80%). I must restore first of all the Incoming messages and after the Sent messages for restore all.

For backup I need about 10 minutes, but for restore 2 hours.

When PIM backup work on WM5, its open more faster than on WM6/WM6.1.

I think that it can be optimized for this last, for work better.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] EnsconcE:
Thanks for your reply, but PIM Backup can't backup those settings. I hope this will be integrated in a next version...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
I use Shashimi to backup and restore my registry settings. I also use it to install all of my applications and other settings. I am sure there are other programs that you can use to backup and restore the registry. I also use PHM reg editor, which I think does that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] propagandax:
Duplicate everything with windows mobile center

I really like PIM backup but if i use it and then go sync with windows mobile center I get duplicate appointments, contacts, etc. This is really annoying as I have to go thru and pick out them manually. Does anybody have a solution for this?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] varunb007:
maybe sync with wmc, delete duplicate contacts on computer, clear contacts on phone, sync with wmc, then create new pim backup.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] EnsconcE:
Thanks for the advice, but that is not a problem. I can use different apps to backup the registry, and i used dotfred his taskmanager, but i like certain functions to be in one single app. If PIM backs up, he also needs to backup my registry ;). I have used sashimi but the interface does not speak for itself, in contradiction to PIM...

Besides that, PIM backs up very well except for the registry, and that is why i probably will be using PIM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] propagandax:
I wish wmc was smart enough to see the existing contacts and not duplicate them. This has got to be happening to everybody that used wmc or activesync. Ive got a **** ton of appointments, etc and its a real mess trying to remove duplicates. What do other people do, just not sync with your pc?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
I delete all my contacts, calendar items, and tasks in outlook before the first sync. If I forget to do that, then I run Outlook duplicate items remover, which I recommend you run to get rid of those dups.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
sktools does everything you want, I believe. However, it's not as cost effective as using multiple programs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
What do you mean, can you elaborate a bit please?

Thanks,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
I run the program,

Choose all the things I want to backup, then click on next,

On the next screen, I choose the folder, click on schedule

Choose every day, the time, then click validate

I get the message "backup schedule successfully updated!"

But, no schedule is created, and the backup doesn't happen on the chosen time.

When I go options -> the clear schedule is not enabled, which I guess it means no schedule created anyway.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Have you TaskMgr v2.7 on your p535? If yes, try to create a scheduled backup, not to closed in the time so let's say in a few hours.

Open TaskMgr and select the notification tab, check if you see a notification with the path of PPCPimBackup. If not, there is a problem, if yes then it is something else.

BTW, when the scheduled backup runs, you won't see anything on the screen, it is done in the background. Check if you have a .pib in the backup directory you specified. The p535 has a fast processor and a lot of memory, maybe you didn't notice, the program was launched and did the backup!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Menneisyys:
Wowz! Dotfred, you rule - Task Manager, and, then, this one! Don't forget to register this stuff in the PPCMag Encyclopedia too; I may nominate it for the 2007 Awards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
I have memmaid and I had checked the notifications. no PPCPimBackup. Also, there is no created pib file except for the one I create manually.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Can you show me the parameters you have in the registry under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FdcSoft\PPCPimBackup\Schedule]

and under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MUI] and [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MUI]

Also, can you tell me which time zone you have?

Thanks,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Menneisyys:
(Also frontpaged the new release at PPCMag: http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/in..._version_1_4_of_pim_back&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FdcSoft\PPCPimBackup\Schedule]

"BckpFolder"="\\MiniSD Card\\BackUp"

"BckpItems"=dword:0000003F

"BckpTime"=dword:00005460

"ShouldCompress"=dword:00000001

"StoreAttachments"=dword:00000000

"TurnOff"=dword:00000001

"DelBckp"=dword:00000001

"KpFiles"=dword:00000003

"SchedDays"=dword:0000007F

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MUI]

"CurLang"=dword:00000409

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MUI]

"SysLang"=dword:00000409

"Enable"=dword:00000001

Time zone is +8
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Woaw Werner,

What an article, I'm really honored! But hey, you're going to fast, it is still in full testing phase, have you noticed the number of incidents already reported.

And about the mms, it still doesn't work, I still haven't found how to get the "attachments" which are not considered as such in outlook! :mad:

I don't know when the nominations will start, but it is maybe a little bit too soon for Pim Backup...

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Menneisyys:
Well, you have plenty of time to fix it :) (Nominations are closed in mid-July.)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Ok ebliss,

You found another bug!:(

The problem is related to the time zone. I changed the time zone on my pda and tried to create a scheduled backup, exactly at the same time at 06:00:00 every day and no notification created!

I will investigate...

Edited:

Well it is worse than that, it seems it is nothing to do with the time zone, because it doesn't work anymore after that!:confused:

I'm really confused now!?!?!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
ok thanks! awaiting new version. ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Exel07:
Hi, its me again.

I sent you my back up file that caused ERROR_CSV_BAD_RECORD error.

This error appears only if i making back up of contacts that contain photos.

Error occures in 1.3 version too.

And 1 more thing. Somebody already wrote here about error in birthday fields restoring. I got it too. After restoring all birthdays contain same date - 30.12.99

If you need any additional info just let me know which one.

Thx for support!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Both devices are set to the same time zone.

The text messages are from all over the world (Not sure if text message stores time zone? Don't think they do just providing as much info as I can)

All the messages have the same date on the device, todays date (time that the backup was done)... Probably because the date is missing.

Header

Msg Id;Sender Name;Sender Address;Sender AddressType;Prefix;Subject;Body;BodyType;Folder;Account;Msg Class;Content Length;Msg Size;Msg Flags;Msg Status;Modify Time;Delivery Time;Recipient Nbr;Recipients;Attachment Nbr;Attachments

These are a few full messages (replaced: message, contact name and contact number)

;;;;;;Message;2;\Drafts;SMS;;;;;;;;1;"786448;Contact Name ;+xx123456789;1;0;SMS";0;

;"Contact, Name";""Contact, Name" <+xx123456789>";;;Message;;0;\Inbox;SMS;;;;;;;;0;;0;

;Contact Name;""Contact Name" <+xx123456789>";;;Message;;0;\Inbox;SMS;;;;;;;;0;;0;

;Contact Name;""Contact Name" <+xx123456789>";;;Message;;0;\Inbox;SMS;;;;;;;;0;;0;

;;;;;;"Message";2;\Sent Items;SMS;;;;;;;;1;"786448;Contact Name;+xx123456789;1;0;SMS";0;

Just let me know if you need any more info...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Carolos, I don't see the time in those messages, which is very strange, not if it was in the drafts directory, but in the inbox, you should have the delivery and modif times. Where I put TTTTTT, is where you should have time values.

If you see the dates in outlook, then they should be backed up!?!?!

I don't understand, there is something strange! Do you still have the original cemail.vol?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Exel07:
Btw, carolos maybe you are using SMSDRFix util? (it replaces phone numbers with names from contacts) It has some problems with sms sorting based on date, i think it corrupts the sms date sometimes.

dotfred, did you receive my backup file?

And sorry for my english, its not so easy for me :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
On the Wm2003SE device itself I see all the Dates and Times...

Format it shows it to me on the device is

Sent: 12/10/05 10:01:15 PM

Is there supposed to be a cemail.vol in WM2003SE? (Checked in / its not there and i have never seen it before on my WM2003SE device)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Exel,

No big deal, I understand everything you said, so don't worry for the language. And yes, I received your backup, it is in the pipeline, so I have a lot of bugs to solve! :D

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Your English is alright to me :)

I have never herd of / used SMSDRFix... Doesn't sound like its something an I-Mate PDA2k (BlueAngel) would have installed standard (guessing... how do i check?)... Device is using second WWE Image release from I-Mate... And on the actual device the times are all correct...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Found another problem...

In the sent folder in the Windows Mobile 5 device:

It says [no sender] for all the messages

And the message body is blank...

Sometimes on random messages the message body is there...

EDIT:

I think it is because most of the sent messages have " " in the message body...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] EnsconcE:
I have used sktools in the past and i was doubting to buy it. I had not tried the backup because i was satisfied with PIM. I am going to try the backup now i know it can do what i need. Thanks for the advice :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pietje_1985:
Nice app!!!:D:D:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mebwabsm:
Thank you very much.

Awaiting for new upgrades!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ginga2008:
It is working nice to restore data into pocket PC, but when I extract the files on a pc using Excel I have no useful data. Do you have a way to convert the data to the original information?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eazy2001x:
does anyone know if i can use this to backup/restore from my mogul to my diamond?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] studentjunk:
What program are you trying to import it into? It of course syncs with outlook, but you should be able to import it into whatever contact program you want. I believe they are semicolon separated values, but I am not sure.

yes, it will work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eazy2001x:
nice to know.. it woul dbe nice if this thing did backups for IE fav's and sprint nav address locations that are saved.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] onlinespending:
SMS / Text Messages not fully loading in Windows 6.1

I have over 1000 text messages that I have backed up with PIMBackup. The restore goes smoothly, albeit slowly.

But once I go into my text messages in WM6.1, threaded viewing mode, the messages slowly start to populate. However, it seems like they never completely finish, with most of the messages being the ones I sent. I find that I have to restore my text messages with PIMBackup a second time and overwrite them in order for them to finish loading.

For some reason if I disable threading view, I do see that all text messages are indeed there. This seems to happen every time I flash my ROM and do a restore. I'm sure others are experiencing this. Any solutions? Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djb_xda:
CSV from Outlook to PIB?

Hello

On the search to sync my private PPC with my MS-Outlook at work (where I cannot install software nor connect it via activesync) I stumbled across this nice freeware.

I exported my Outlook calendar as .csv, renamed it as .csa and zipped into a .pib, but cannot restore it with PIM Backup. It says "invalid file format".

(I was succesfull with my contacts as .csc though.)

I set up a test appointment on my PPC and backed it up. Comparing two entries I found out that it looks totally different from the Outlook csv - begin, end, reminder, participants, etc. cannot be read (c.f. below).

Am I doing something wrong? Is this possible at all?

If not, any suggestion to easily import Outlook calendar into the PPC (other then importing Outlook csv into Google calendar and then sync PPC with OggSync via GSM)?

Thanks a lot!

PIB:

Test;"0x00,0x00";"0x76,0x00,0x6f,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x20,0x00,0x68,0x00,0x61,0x00,0x6e,0x00,0x64,0x00,0x79,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x0d,0x00,0x0a,0x00";"0xfe,0xff,0x76,0x00,0x6f,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x20,0x00,0x68,0x00,0x61,0x00,0x6e,0x00,0x64,0x00,0x79,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x0d,0x00,0x0a,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00";"";"0x3c,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x55,0x55,0x55,0x55,0x51,0x64,0xe3,0x40";"0x00,0x00";"";"0x03,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x00,0x00";"";"0x02,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x50,0x64,0xe3,0x40";"0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00";"0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x3c,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x56,0x55,0x55,0x55,0x55,0x55,0xe1,0x3f,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xff,0xff,0x00,0x00,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xdc,0xfd,0x2c,0x41,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x40,0x64,0xe3,0x40,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xe0,0x3f,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00";

Outlook:

Tag des Sieges,"8.5.2009","00:00:00","9.5.2009","00:00:00","Ein","Aus","7.5.2009","23:30:00",,,,,,,"Feiertag","Frankreich","Normal","Aus",,"Normal","3"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hello,

No it is not possible to import external csv format for calendar items for the moment. It is only possible for contacts. In the next version it will be possible with ical format and also with csv like contacts using mapping fields. Also bear in mind that there is problem with the calendar csv format, recurring appointments are lost after a restore...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djb_xda:
Thanks a lot Fred!

Looking forward to the new version.

Hope that with this kind of sync Outlook will be able to handle the recurring appointments. Or is this a general csv problem and not PIB specific?

I see on my PPC the restored recurring appointments as occuring once repeatedly - oh, already in the csv from outlook there seems to be no field for recurrence. So better not import csv into Outlook I guess...

Kind regards to Brussels,

David
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gthing:
Hey I was wondering if there is a way to backup notes from the default note backup program. Is it possible?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DaveShaw:
Add a file filter for the *.pwi files IIRC

Ta

Dave
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cbasualdo:
First of all I like to thanks Fred for his work and for sharing his work with our comunity.

It also surprise me that he is always open to listen to the discovered bugs and takes time to solve them. So I hope this reflects that I apreciate this very much.

Now with the program.

I want a program to backup my speed dials and hope PimBackup can make it. But as for the comments it doesn't. I have read EVERY of the 100 pages before writing to make sure of this problem. Strange is that every post that mentions this is not answered. Most strange is that Fred is always open to correct the bugs.

I'm running the oficial version of HTC WM 6.1 and I was running also the oficial version of HTC WM 6.0 wich came with my cruise.

My setting were with binary backup (faster) enabled. I tried it and turned the verbose mode to analize the result and I can see the following:

...

...

...

Starting speed dials backup ...

Connecting to the speed dials database ...

Connected to the database.

Retrieving speed dials infos ...

1 speed dial to be retrieved.

1. number '#0' saved.

1 speed dial successfully saved.

Disconnecting from the speed dials database...

Disconnected.

Adding speed dials to backup file ...

Starting tasks backup ...

...

...

...

Hope this can help.

So Fred, can you tell us if you are aware of this and you are able to correct it? I can be your beta tester if you need, so I can test and send you the results.

Thanks in advance for al you work !!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Orbitter2:
Hello DotFred, do you have a solution for this?

On the other hand, it would be nice to know how you developed you own app. As I understand, it is possible to read the pim data inside the PPC and then store them in files. Not needed to understand the fileformat of the vol.pim, right? Which development environment (progs) did you used?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Comp1demon:
Thanks very much for this program.. does exactly what I want it to do.

Few questions,,,

Will there or when will there be the ability to backup MMS?

IS there another program like this one does the same thing, Backup contacts, calendar, events, tasks, mail, messages... ect... but already has working MMS backup? Even if it is a program that is not free - pointing me in the right direction would be apprciated....

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smotrs:
Restore causes messages to nolonger be threaded

I have a HTC Touch Pro and decided to do a hard reset and then re-store all the contacts, SMS msgs, tasks, etc.. One of the things the TP does is keep SMS messages grouped by contact and display them in a threaded form. I'm sure other phones do a similar thing.

Anyway, after doing the reset followed by the re-store of the data, I noticed all my SMS messages, were now out of order. All my messages (Sent items) were grouped together and all the senders messages (Inbox items) were grouped before mine. In other words, when scrolling through older messages, I had to scroll through all the Sent items before I could see the Inbox items for a particular contact. The SMS msg's where nolonger threaded.

Upon further investigation by looking inside the PIB file and opening the msgs.csm file, I saw that all the data was grouped as described above, all Inbox items were at the top and all Sent items were at the bottom of the file. So I decided to open the file with Excel, re-sort based on delivery date and then do a restore of just the msgs.csm file to the phone. This resulted in all the messages being entered into the database in the order they were received and sent, thus showing them in a threaded order for the various communications.

Hope that makes sense?

I understand what it's doing, the software parses the various mail folders in order, adding the contents to the file before saving it.

What I'm wondering though is if there is anyway to have the software maintain the threaded relationship of the messages or to reorder the contents of the msgs.csm based on the delivery date (column 17) of the message rather then store them based on folder location? This way on re-store, phones that allow you to see a threaded version of the conversation, will maintain that threaded look.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mischief4l:
Is there a way to have PIM backup run in association with another program (maybe sashimi) so that it automatically starts a backup when the memory card is inserted?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bubbleflubber:
Problem with Contacts - HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro

Hi,

I really appreciate this program, and all of the work that has gone into it. My issue is the following.

I recently purchased a Touch Diamond and used Pim Backup 2.8 to backup my data. I had some trouble with the phone and did a hard reset. Upon trying to restore my contacts, the program "sees" that there are many contacts in the contact ".csc" file, as well as the overall ".pib" file.

However, when it tries to restore them, the progress bar starts away, as I assume is normal, but after inputting only 40 or so, stops immediately (I was viewing in "verbose mode"). I tried yet again to restore the contacts, only this time I only added new contacts to the existing phone list. When I checked the phone again, more were added, but still not all.

Anyhoo, this morning I traded my Diamond for the Touch Pro, and tried again tried to restore the contacts. It does the exact same thing. Is there any hope for me? I certainly appreciate any help.

I use both Mac and Windows, and would like to be able to import the raw list and sync it that way.... or is there another version of the Pim Backup program that might address my issue?

Again, I really appreciate your help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Makoru:
Using PIM software with Dash

Hi, could you resolve the problem with that software? I have a Dash to and I really need to restore my pim.vol file to my phone. Do you find another soft or what?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Re@Lity:
thank you a lot i think i really need this one!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hammermedia:
Export?

I did the non-binary backup, extracted the csm on my pc, imported to excel, modified the records.

How did you export the data from Excel so it could be restored by PIM backup? Also, did multiline messages import correctly?

THANKS!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smotrs:
I just did a CTRL+A (select all) in Excel, and pasted it into the extracted messages.csm file replacing it's current content. Leaving the one in the zip file alone in case I needed to start over. Be sure to replace all TAB characters with a semi-colon. Be careful, on the first line with all the headings, it will add 5 trailing semi-colons at the end of the line which have to be deleted. Also, any time you sent a message to multiple people, you'll get multiple semi-colons on messages that followed it. These also need to be deleted as there should be no trailing semi-colons on any of the lines. Pretty much do a search for 5 (;;;;; ) semi-colons and any row that it finds, delete all trailing semi-colons.

Then I uploaded both the ZIP file and the single CSM file back to my phone after the HR. When I did the restore, I restored the ZIP file first and unselected the messages option. After it finished I did a second restore and browsed to the CSM file which restored only messages at that point.

Not sure about the multi-line messages as I had to modify the CSM file Subject column as I'll explain below. So prior to importing into Excel, I went through the CSM file and corrected the multi-line messages back to individual lines, in other words, each row was a complete message with all it's fields.

My problem was, whenever a message actually contained semi-colons (; ) because of smilies or something, it would break that message into multiple cells due to import into Excel being parsed by semi-colons. This resulted in more then 21 columns in that particular row because of the extra semi-colon character existing. I wrote a VB routine which I imported into the Excel VB editor which allowed me to select the entire Subject column, look for all the rows which had this extra character and recombine them correctly into the single cell resulting into a 21 column row again.

NOTE: When importing the original CSM file into Excel, make sure you use Delimited with a delimiter of ; and a Text Qualifier of {none}. Otherwise it will remove all the quotes (") as well and your file may not be valid when you do a restore.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PG101:
Will this work on the Xperia??? I have an HTC Diamond and want to switzh over the Xperia... can i use the backed up file on Diamond to restore on the Xperia?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lonely Soul:
There's no way to select any folders on the memory card for custom backup. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ivanmara:
Why i cannot select folder on miniSD card (only memory filesystem) to making custom folder backup? ... and doesnt save custom files and folders setting (((