- PsiWin and Vista

- Ref: PsiWin and Vista

- Data and Contacts to Mac ontacts

- Restoring to a new Revo

Date: 18 Apr 2007 19:07:18 +0100
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: PsiWin and Vista

To Gordon Thompson

I think I already posted on the matter.
I have got Vista on my PC. I didn't try Sync yet. In my opinion PsiWin works better with Vista than with XP. Especially Windows Explorer. (Though it crashes in some cases.)

I use IRda to connect PC and 5mx (just install IRcomm2k before Psiwin).

Jean Guillonneau

Date: 18 Apr 2007 22:13:42 +0100
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: Ref: PsiWin and Vista

*  This may already have been posted and missed by me. *  I have PsiWin v.2.3.3. This works reasonably fine with Windows XP. *  I am considering a new computer loaded with Windows Vista. Has anyone *  used 2.3.3 with Vista?

Hello Gordon,

See issue 1062
http://www.psioneering.co.uk/digest/01062.html#T6

--

Regards,

Kees.

Date: 19 Apr 2007 04:00:52 +0100
From: Vlad A <address truncated>
Subject: Data and Contacts to Mac ontacts

I'm proud to say I succeeded to move my contacts and Data files to a Mac contacts format. I'm a also a bit embarrassed, as it took several days... although it is actually rather simple:
1- Have enough place on C (I used a spare 5MX for this, with just Datacontact on it, so I had about 16MB free)
2- Export your contacts as .vcf.
3- Get a copy of NowContact. It's two years old, and not a very OX-like application. It was very innovative ten years ago, not anymore, but it is the only application I found which easily imports those vcf-s
4- Copy the Contacts vcf to the Mac and
5- drag it to the Now list view.
6- The result won't be complete. Look for the last imported contact. Look whether you find
"END:VCARD"
in Now: if you do, this is where it stops importing the vcf file.
7- Open the vcf file in TextEdit (no other text editor worked for me) and look what happens at the end of the last imported contact (the one you found "END:VCARD" in in Now).
You'll see an empty line too many, or nothing.
7b- If you see a line too many,
- from a neighbouring contact, copy a line with "END:VCARD", starting with the last letter (whatever it is) of the preceding line
- paste it instead of the faulty "END:VCARD", then
- close and save your vcf file,
- delete everything in Now,
- drag the vcf again to the list window
7c- If you see nothing, just search for the word "VCARD" in Now. It has nothing to do there, it's where it stops importing (can anyone explain
why?!).
- Open the vcf file in Textedit again and you will see some irregularity: VCARD appearing twice, or with another prefix - just compare lines with the neighbour-clusters and copy-paste a line which looks right.
7d- Check the result. Start over deleting and re-importing until all contacts are there.
Important: do not delete any other glyph, even if it looks like a space or like nothing at all!
8- If you have a Data file you use as contacts-databank, use Pascal Nicolas' Datacontact.
- Back up your old Contacts file, then empty it before you use Datacontact!! - Map the fields carefully, 1/1, and import it to Contacts
- export as vcf and start over in a new Now document.

NB:
- You can check the contact number in Contacts: the total number appears at the right if the search-field!

I have only lost two contacts, I don't know why. I do not know if anything else got lost, and I am sleepy to look now. I do not know whether the order of fields is correct, but Now seems to be flexible, unlike _any_ other phone-databank I tried, including Apple's Address Book. I also suppose you can then import the Now Databanks in Address Book. It should also be able to export an Address Book format, maybe the older one; Now was last updated a few years ago...

And most important: please do not blame me if you mess up your contacts or if you waste a lot of time...

Finally: I would like to hear what your experience is.

Another tip:
http://www.turingart.com/
offer a program called "AB Transfer" which "converts text or database sources into records of the OS X address book" and should also enable you to work directly with delimited text, but the demo is _very_ crippled and the complete version costs too much for a test.

Hope this helps smeone, do not heistate to look again..-

best,

vlad a

Date: 20 Apr 2007 02:07:04 +0100
From: Melvin Woody <address truncated>
Subject: Restoring to a new Revo

I ran my Diamond Mako through the washing machine in a coat last week - and am now trying to transfer the files I had backed up from it to a new Psion Revo.  I got the screen for registering the new machine and checked the appropriate box: "Use previous machine settings"  But I think it installed on a "previous machine" other than the last one I used.  At any rate. when I try to restore from the machine that I WAS using before and specify the file on my PC that has those backed up files, it says: "No files have been backed up to this directory".  I've a notion why this happens.  When I go right click on "My Epoc Machine" and Click "Backup" - it displays the old directory path - but adds the name of the new machine to the path - and nothing has been backed up to that.  But when I try to change directories using Restore, it still tells me that "No files have been backed up to this directory".  Can anyone advise me about how to proceed?   Could I change the machine number under the name of the actual previous machine?  Or what else?

Melvin Woody