Re: Best way to migrate to a new device.

[Mark Healey <marklist healeyonline com>]

Dagmar d'Surreal wrote:
> On 7/8/05, Mark Healey <marklist healeyonline com> wrote:
>
> > I just bought a Palm Zire 72s to replace my Kyocera 7135.
> > What is the best way to transfer the data.  Should I just
> > give the Zire the same name as the 7135 and sync or should I
> > laboriously beam everything?
>
>
> With very little poking around you should be able to find the
> directory that your sync software keeps copies of all the pdb files
> and so on that it retrieved from the device.  (Generally I back up
> this directory onto a floppy disk every so often.)  You can usually
> just drop the files you know aren't device-specific configuration
> libraries right into the installation app and then sync to install
> them.  Just be forewarned that some things might not work so well if
> you're migrating between PalmOS apps made for different CPU types.
>
> I wouldn't bother with trying to install-migrate things like phone
> numbers and so on, tho.  Your new device should get all those the
> moment you sync it anyway, and if it didn't you will still have a copy
> of everything from your backup directory (hint hint).

OK now I'm more confused.  There is one directory called 
"/home/mark/MyPilot" which had everything except for memos 
which are separate files in "/home/mark/memos"

If I should decide to have several pilots wouldn't this 
confuse things?

Another thing.  I like to keep data files a directory or two 
deep from my user directories (this is a second physical 
hard drive).  It just makes upgrading easier.  For some 
reason when I tied to do this with Gnome Pilot it didn't 
work.  Why?

Still another thing.  Some of the apps I want to use are 
wrapped up in a windows installer.  How do I get them out?

I'm thinking I'll just start with it clean reinstall all the 
apps I use (many of them probably have been upgraded since) 
and beam the data from the 7135.



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Mark Healey
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