On Tue, 06 May 2008 05:48:58 +0200, Oskar von dem Hagen wrote:

> Hi,
> apologies if I bother you with a question that has been around for more
> than a decade...
>
> I have to synchronize the Palm databases on two PCs directly without the
> handheld! Reason: both PCs run palmone desktop 4.1.4 (as recommended by
> palm for my palm pilot). My palm pilot, however, is too old to install the
> corresponding version. It runs on some older version but communication
> with the PCs is ok.
>
> Now, the desktop 4.1.4 has more data fields (e.g. in Adressbook) than the
> handheld. I can't therefore, use the handheld anymore to synchronize these
> additional fields.
>
> Is there some way to synchronize two PCs directly via network?
>
> Oskar von dem Hagen

Export/import address book as CSV ?

On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:46:18 -0400, Meat Plow
wrote:

>On Tue, 06 May 2008 05:48:58 +0200, Oskar von dem Hagen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> apologies if I bother you with a question that has been around for more
>> than a decade...
>>
>> I have to synchronize the Palm databases on two PCs directly without the
>> handheld! Reason: both PCs run palmone desktop 4.1.4 (as recommended by
>> palm for my palm pilot). My palm pilot, however, is too old to install the
>> corresponding version. It runs on some older version but communication
>> with the PCs is ok.
>>
>> Now, the desktop 4.1.4 has more data fields (e.g. in Adressbook) than the
>> handheld. I can't therefore, use the handheld anymore to synchronize these
>> additional fields.
>>
>> Is there some way to synchronize two PCs directly via network?
>>
>> Oskar von dem Hagen
>
>Export/import address book as CSV ?
>

Heck, I just synchronize the directories between my desktop and
laptop. Copy the files right over. Works fine.

> Heck, I just synchronize the directories between my desktop and
> laptop. Copy the files right over. Works fine.
That's what I do, too. However, nw and then I am not careful enough and
both PCs have different changes that should be synchronized.
Oskar

On 07 May 2008 in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot, Oskar von dem Hagen wrote:

>> Heck, I just synchronize the directories between my desktop and
>> laptop. Copy the files right over. Works fine.
> That's what I do, too. However, nw and then I am not careful enough
> and both PCs have different changes that should be synchronized.

Are the two computers on the same network? If so, put the data files in
a folder on one of them that you can share, and point the data location
in both versions of Palm desktop to the shared folder. Tools>Options,
first tab in my ver 4.2 desktop.

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