Changing from my old Qtek S100 to a HTC TyTN, I am in need of finding
out exactly where my contact lists are stored to make a back-up. Does
anybody know the filename or folder name containing my contacts?

After many crashes with data loss I do not trust the regular back-up
features and wish to do this manually instead.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

All best


/Mat

At 11 Jan 2008 11:05:16 -0800 Amzg wrote:
> Changing from my old Qtek S100 to a HTC TyTN, I am in need of finding
> out exactly where my contact lists are stored to make a back-up. Does
> anybody know the filename or folder name containing my contacts?

It's stored in pim.vol in the device's root, butbacking up that file and
restoring it doesn't work- apparently there are unknown index files
elsewhere that the device uses to "decode" pim.vol.


> After many crashes with data loss I do not trust the regular back-up
> features and wish to do this manually instead.

Google for PIMbackup. It works very well and it's free. It backs up just
the PIM data- not the entire device.

I've published a very thorough tutorial on PIM Backup at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

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"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
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> At 11 Jan 2008 11:05:16 -0800 Amzg wrote:
>> Changing from my old Qtek S100 to a HTC TyTN, I am in need of finding
>> out exactly where my contact lists are stored to make a back-up. Does
>> anybody know the filename or folder name containing my contacts?
>
> It's stored in pim.vol in the device's root, butbacking up that file and
> restoring it doesn't work- apparently there are unknown index files
> elsewhere that the device uses to "decode" pim.vol.
>
>
>> After many crashes with data loss I do not trust the regular back-up
>> features and wish to do this manually instead.
>
> Google for PIMbackup. It works very well and it's free. It backs up just
> the PIM data- not the entire device.
>
>