[NEW] PIM Backup v2.8 [NEW]

Re@Lity · Nov 26, 2008

thank you a lot i think i really need this one!

hammermedia · Dec 7, 2008

Export?

smotrs said:
I have a HTC Touch Pro and decided to do a hard reset and then re-store all the contacts, SMS msgs, tasks, etc.. One of the things the TP does is keep SMS messages grouped by contact and display them in a threaded form. I'm sure other phones do a similar thing.

Anyway, after doing the reset followed by the re-store of the data, I noticed all my SMS messages, were now out of order. All my messages (Sent items) were grouped together and all the senders messages (Inbox items) were grouped before mine. In other words, when scrolling through older messages, I had to scroll through all the Sent items before I could see the Inbox items for a particular contact. The SMS msg's where nolonger threaded.

Upon further investigation by looking inside the PIB file and opening the msgs.csm file, I saw that all the data was grouped as described above, all Inbox items were at the top and all Sent items were at the bottom of the file. So I decided to open the file with Excel, re-sort based on delivery date and then do a restore of just the msgs.csm file to the phone. This resulted in all the messages being entered into the database in the order they were received and sent, thus showing them in a threaded order for the various communications.

Hope that makes sense?

I understand what it's doing, the software parses the various mail folders in order, adding the contents to the file before saving it.

What I'm wondering though is if there is anyway to have the software maintain the threaded relationship of the messages or to reorder the contents of the msgs.csm based on the delivery date (column 17) of the message rather then store them based on folder location? This way on re-store, phones that allow you to see a threaded version of the conversation, will maintain that threaded look.

I did the non-binary backup, extracted the csm on my pc, imported to excel, modified the records.

How did you export the data from Excel so it could be restored by PIM backup? Also, did multiline messages import correctly?

THANKS!

smotrs · Dec 7, 2008

hammermedia said:
I did the non-binary backup, extracted the csm on my pc, imported to excel, modified the records.

How did you export the data from Excel so it could be restored by PIM backup? Also, did multiline messages import correctly?

THANKS!

I just did a CTRL+A (select all) in Excel, and pasted it into the extracted messages.csm file replacing it's current content. Leaving the one in the zip file alone in case I needed to start over. Be sure to replace all TAB characters with a semi-colon. Be careful, on the first line with all the headings, it will add 5 trailing semi-colons at the end of the line which have to be deleted. Also, any time you sent a message to multiple people, you'll get multiple semi-colons on messages that followed it. These also need to be deleted as there should be no trailing semi-colons on any of the lines. Pretty much do a search for 5 (;;;;; ) semi-colons and any row that it finds, delete all trailing semi-colons.

Then I uploaded both the ZIP file and the single CSM file back to my phone after the HR. When I did the restore, I restored the ZIP file first and unselected the messages option. After it finished I did a second restore and browsed to the CSM file which restored only messages at that point.

Not sure about the multi-line messages as I had to modify the CSM file Subject column as I'll explain below. So prior to importing into Excel, I went through the CSM file and corrected the multi-line messages back to individual lines, in other words, each row was a complete message with all it's fields.

My problem was, whenever a message actually contained semi-colons (; ) because of smilies or something, it would break that message into multiple cells due to import into Excel being parsed by semi-colons. This resulted in more then 21 columns in that particular row because of the extra semi-colon character existing. I wrote a VB routine which I imported into the Excel VB editor which allowed me to select the entire Subject column, look for all the rows which had this extra character and recombine them correctly into the single cell resulting into a 21 column row again.

NOTE: When importing the original CSM file into Excel, make sure you use Delimited with a delimiter of ; and a Text Qualifier of {none}. Otherwise it will remove all the quotes (") as well and your file may not be valid when you do a restore.

PG101 · Dec 11, 2008

Will this work on the Xperia??? I have an HTC Diamond and want to switzh over the Xperia... can i use the backed up file on Diamond to restore on the Xperia?

Lonely Soul · Dec 11, 2008

There's no way to select any folders on the memory card for custom backup.

ivanmara · Dec 12, 2008

Why i cannot select folder on miniSD card (only memory filesystem) to making custom folder backup? ... and doesnt save custom files and folders setting (((

cbasualdo · Dec 12, 2008

cbasualdo said:
First of all I like to thanks Fred for his work and for sharing his work with our comunity.
It also surprise me that he is always open to listen to the discovered bugs and takes time to solve them. So I hope this reflects that I apreciate this very much.

Now with the program.

I want a program to backup my speed dials and hope PimBackup can make it. But as for the comments it doesn't. I have read EVERY of the 100 pages before writing to make sure of this problem. Strange is that every post that mentions this is not answered. Most strange is that Fred is always open to correct the bugs.

I'm running the oficial version of HTC WM 6.1 and I was running also the oficial version of HTC WM 6.0 wich came with my cruise.

My setting were with binary backup (faster) enabled. I tried it and turned the verbose mode to analize the result and I can see the following:

...
...
...
Starting speed dials backup ...
Connecting to the speed dials database ...
Connected to the database.
Retrieving speed dials infos ...
1 speed dial to be retrieved.
1. number '#0' saved.
1 speed dial successfully saved.
Disconnecting from the speed dials database...
Disconnected.
Adding speed dials to backup file ...
Starting tasks backup ...
...
...
...

Hope this can help.

So Fred, can you tell us if you are aware of this and you are able to correct it? I can be your beta tester if you need, so I can test and send you the results.

Thanks in advance for al you work !!!!!

Hi again Fred. Any advance with the speed dial issue?

Best regards.

polppol · Dec 16, 2008

i try on my Touch HD but Scheduled backup don't work
i just do nothing when the time thai i set arrive
how should i do?

reesu · Dec 18, 2008

Commande line?

Is there any way to restore silently a backup by command line
is there any command line possible action ?

(thanks GREAT APP)

Trag · Dec 27, 2008

thanks! now if I hard reset then what?

smotrs · Dec 27, 2008

Trag said:
thanks! now if I hard reset then what?

Before you Hard Reset

Store the PIMBackup program/executable on your SD card
Run PIMBackup and backup your phones information
Change the Backup Folder to \Storage Card
Click Next to proceed with Backup

Follow onscreen prompts/instructions, when done, verify that the file PIMBackup_XXXXXXXX (X's being the date) was saved to the Storage Card

After you do your Hard Reset

Launch the phones File Explorer
Locate and launch PIMBackup (if you stored it on the SD card, look there)
Change Action to Restore
Click the Browse button and locate the PIMBackup_XXXXXXXX file created above
Click Next to proceed with Restore

Follow on screen prompts/instructions

JediFonger · Dec 30, 2008

this is the best application EVER. just wanted to let u know!!! =D

Eggert · Dec 31, 2008

I have backupped my SMS from WM5 on my Himalaya. I've just upgraded the device to WM6.1.

I try to restore the SMS but it seems that there are only the sent items in the conversation lists but I checked to save and restore all items.

Is there any hint why this doesn't work?

Thanks,
Eggert

smotrs · Dec 31, 2008

Eggert, read post #998, I suspect that's what your seeing.

If that is the problem, look for some of my other posts which explains how I fixed it.

metal450 · Jan 4, 2009

smotrs said:
I have a HTC Touch Pro and decided to do a hard reset and then re-store all the contacts, SMS msgs, tasks, etc.. One of the things the TP does is keep SMS messages grouped by contact and display them in a threaded form. I'm sure other phones do a similar thing.

Anyway, after doing the reset followed by the re-store of the data, I noticed all my SMS messages, were now out of order. All my messages (Sent items) were grouped together and all the senders messages (Inbox items) were grouped before mine. In other words, when scrolling through older messages, I had to scroll through all the Sent items before I could see the Inbox items for a particular contact. The SMS msg's where nolonger threaded.

Upon further investigation by looking inside the PIB file and opening the msgs.csm file, I saw that all the data was grouped as described above, all Inbox items were at the top and all Sent items were at the bottom of the file. So I decided to open the file with Excel, re-sort based on delivery date and then do a restore of just the msgs.csm file to the phone. This resulted in all the messages being entered into the database in the order they were received and sent, thus showing them in a threaded order for the various communications.

Hope that makes sense?

I understand what it's doing, the software parses the various mail folders in order, adding the contents to the file before saving it.

What I'm wondering though is if there is anyway to have the software maintain the threaded relationship of the messages or to reorder the contents of the msgs.csm based on the delivery date (column 17) of the message rather then store them based on folder location? This way on re-store, phones that allow you to see a threaded version of the conversation, will maintain that threaded look.

Ditto. I'd REALLY love to see this

trjons · Jan 6, 2009

There are 102 pages so forgive me if this has been asked before but is there a way that I can import into Outlook on a PC my appointments from my *.PIB file?

I've created a backup of just the appointments.

DaveShaw · Jan 6, 2009

trjons said:
There are 102 pages so forgive me if this has been asked before but is there a way that I can import into Outlook on a PC my appointments from my *.PIB file?

I've created a backup of just the appointments.

No, you need to use active sync for that.

Ta
Dave

lastnikita · Jan 7, 2009

not sure if fred is still monitoring this, but an option to save PIMBackup settings within the backups it creates would be nice.
I'm getting tired of configuring the 'custom' files to backup, after each hard reset

mccune · Jan 7, 2009

Just configure the backup like the way you want it. After this export the registry keys. Next time you just import the registry settings and you're done

lastnikita · Jan 7, 2009

mccune said:
Just configure the backup like the way you want it. After this export the registry keys. Next time you just import the registry settings and you're done

yep I should have done that, but yet my suggestion would be a better solution

where are its settings located in reg please ? Instead I will just add them to the .cab

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