Converting a .DAT database - Palmtop
This is a discussion on Converting a .DAT database - Palmtop ; I need to upgrade my addressbook, but my current program doesnt have a
way to export the data, and it was a shareware company that never
upgraded. So i need a way to convert the data file to a .csv ...
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Converting a .DAT database
I need to upgrade my addressbook, but my current program doesnt have a
way to export the data, and it was a shareware company that never
upgraded. So i need a way to convert the data file to a .csv file or
something so i can import in another program. im sure theres other ways
to do this, so maybe someone has an idea?
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Re: Converting a .DAT database
What is your current address book program?
One brute force way would be:
- add a new printer to your system, using the option for generic text
printer
- specify that you want to write to a file
- go into the application and print your data to that printer
- reformat the text file: manually, or by writing a small program, or
by importing into something like a spreadsheet program, reformat
manually or with macros, and save as a CSV file.
Dan
azrussdogg11@gmail.com wrote:
> I need to upgrade my addressbook, but my current program doesnt have a
> way to export the data, and it was a shareware company that never
> upgraded. So i need a way to convert the data file to a .csv file or
> something so i can import in another program. im sure theres other ways
> to do this, so maybe someone has an idea?