visor to sj30 question

[chuck143]

I am upgrading from a visor deluxe(palm OS3.1) to an sj30. My question is this:

When I first hotsync the sj30 it restores from backup (from my visor). Doing this I end up with DateBook+ and others on my clie. My understanding is that this is a visor only software. It seems to work on the clie. Has anyone ran into problems using it on the clie?

One more question: What is the easiest way to get my address book entries from my visor to my wife's SJ20?

Any help with either of these would be appreciated.

chuck.

[buckethead]

not very familiar with visor device, but can't you just like beam all the contacts to the clie?

[Unregistered]

Just don't try looking up the about screen in the Datebook+ App when it's on the Clie. I tried that on my old N760C, and it would crash requiring a soft reset. Other than that little snag, it works just fine.

[MrBook]

I am with Buckethead on this one. I went from a Visor to my SJ30 and the easiest thing I found to do was to beam what I wanted to keep. I didn't allow my SJ30 to restore from the Visor's back up files on my computer. Inside of both the address book and the note pad there is a way to beam an entire category, in this case "all". Any other programs that I wanted to beam I just used "beambox" to get onto the Clie.

[cass_m]

I did a bunch of fiddling when I updated from a Visor to the SJ30 then ended up beaming a bunch of stuff -would have been easier to do just that in the first place. I bought Datebk5 so I would have the datebk+ functions. and more:)

[Convert]

Originally posted by cass_m
I did a bunch of fiddling when I updated from a Visor to the SJ30 then ended up beaming a bunch of stuff -would have been easier to do just that in the first place. I bought Datebk5 so I would have the datebk+ functions. and more:)

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[chuck143]

Thanks guys.

I have to admit that after I got messing around with it a little I figured out that it would let you beam a whole category at once.

As for the Datebk+ question it sounds like it is better to just beam anything over - to avoid any conflicts. So that is probably what I will do.

chuck

[rrayl]

Check out the "Switching to Clie" forum for ways to transfer data over to Clie