Restoring Backup Data question?

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Robert Davidson - 28 Jul 2006 23:19 GMT

I need to be able to restore my pim data from my dell axim x51 that is on a
cf card. I want to restore it outside of the Axim then be able to pull
calander information from the restore and put it back to the Axim. The
reason I can't restore the PIM directly on my Axim is that something is
corrupt in the data which causes the Axim and Active Sync not to work which
in turn causes me to have to reset my PDA. Can PIM data be restore outside
of the PDA via some type of card reader?

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 28 Jul 2006 23:33 GMT

I don't think that calendar information is going to be possible without
writing code. If you backup with Spb Backup, they have a desktop program
that will extract the contents of the backup, but the PIM data is in a
database of sorts, not separate files for each calendar item. I think that
you'd have to parse that database and decide what to add to the local store
on the device.

Paul T.

>I need to be able to restore my pim data from my dell axim x51 that is on a
> cf card. I want to restore it outside of the Axim then be able to pull
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> in turn causes me to have to reset my PDA. Can PIM data be restore outside
> of the PDA via some type of card reader?

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Robert Davidson - 31 Jul 2006 16:33 GMT

Let me provide a little bit more information here. Around the first of this
year I did a full backup of the Axim to the cf card. Something in that
backup was corrupt as any restore would cause AS to fail. After that I did
only pim backups of subsequent data to the card as recommended by Dell tech
support. I have information in the original full backup that I now need.
Should I go ahead and do a restore of that original backup, even with it's
corrupt files, then re-backup just the pim data from that and hard-reset the
device? I have information from the original backup that I need but I'm
afraid it's corruption will render my new AS4.2 useless once again. Any
sugesstions?

>I don't think that calendar information is going to be possible without
>writing code. If you backup with Spb Backup, they have a desktop program
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>> outside
>> of the PDA via some type of card reader?

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 31 Jul 2006 18:37 GMT

That would be my best guess, yes. Not sure why a restore should cause AS
problems (you did use a soft reset after restore, right?), but that seems
like as good a plan as you're going to get.

Paul T.

> Let me provide a little bit more information here. Around the first of
> this year I did a full backup of the Axim to the cf card. Something in
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>>> outside
>>> of the PDA via some type of card reader?

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