oscarDelta
10-16-2004, 07:47 AM
Greetings! Thanks for taking your time to read this. Any assistance is very much appreciated.
Upgrading from an E to a C model Tungsten, loading the installation CD, I upgraded my desktop, and used (allowed the system to assign) the same username as before (this may have been the critical error). I did all this way too fast and didn't follow any set of instructions. :eek: When I did a sync, the desktop and the handheld were empty of any records. :( I checked my computer's \Palm\LD directory and all the various .dat and .bak files from my old unit are there. But the desktop doesn't restore or import from these files--only archive files, which are not there. I've read some references that claim the .dat files may be converted to CSV files and restored in that manner, but when I attempted to convert (using Excel) my address.dat file (my most important & the system's most complex file), the data appears not to have any delimiter that I can fix on. Now, I'm feeling very stupid and desparate. Any suggestions as to how this situation may be remedied would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! oscarDelta
Upgrading from an E to a C model Tungsten, loading the installation CD, I upgraded my desktop, and used (allowed the system to assign) the same username as before (this may have been the critical error). I did all this way too fast and didn't follow any set of instructions. :eek: When I did a sync, the desktop and the handheld were empty of any records. :( I checked my computer's \Palm\LD directory and all the various .dat and .bak files from my old unit are there. But the desktop doesn't restore or import from these files--only archive files, which are not there. I've read some references that claim the .dat files may be converted to CSV files and restored in that manner, but when I attempted to convert (using Excel) my address.dat file (my most important & the system's most complex file), the data appears not to have any delimiter that I can fix on. Now, I'm feeling very stupid and desparate. Any suggestions as to how this situation may be remedied would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! oscarDelta