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indigo_rose99I hate change. I have to wonder how long term Palm users like me do this when they don't have DAYS to spend on this. Seriously, I am doing NOTHING ELSE this week. Ugh. I must love my husband.
To do list -- Have not managed to bring it over.
Memos -- Brought them over to Note Everything. Kept the categories.
Address book -- Searched forever to find a solution that did not involve syncing, downgrading to Palm desktop 6, putting my addresses in gmail or money. Ended up with a pdb converter. It took my pdb address book file, which I got directly from the Palm using Filez, and translated it to a form that the Droid can read. I put those files onto the droid's sd card, and pulled the information directly into the droid contacts list. I'd call the transition about as good as it possibly could get given that Palm's entry slots were a lot more flexible than the Droid's are. The information came over and I only had to do limited editing to make those entries usable.
Calendar -- Still working on it. The challenges:
(1) My solution cannot involve syncing. There is a reason for this, but it involves lots of cursing and an XP emulator on Windows 7.
(2) I don't want to lose my categories of data.
(3) I have a LOT of data in my calendar. A mind-boggling amount.
(4) I didn't want to pay for the solution.
(5) I didn't want to put my data in yahoo calender or outlook calendar to get it there.
You would not BELIEVE some of the transition solutions out there. Seriously, you put your data in YAHOO CALENDAR to get it into Google calendar?! *shake head in disgust* Still, the pdb converter came to my rescue. LOVE these guys (Oh, and if you are following in my path READ THE WIKI). They had directions specific to the calendar transition.
The final hurdle came that my biggest calendar category was Too Big to pull into Google Calendar. And what is "too big" is not documented any place I can find. But the file would not go. So today I went back to the pdb converter, remembering that it allowed me to specify dates. So, I specified one year chunks. And am now about halfway through the transition. *sigh*
I hate change. This change, specifically. I have been working on this transition of my data for three ENTIRE days now. And it is looking like I will NEVER again have the capability and flexibility I had on my Palm Treo 680. My reason for change is two words: True Love. The technology itself is not worth it. I am losing a lot, and have yet to gain anything I consider rating more than "that's nice, but I could live without it if I could have my flexible calendar back."
To do list -- Have not managed to bring it over.
Memos -- Brought them over to Note Everything. Kept the categories.
Address book -- Searched forever to find a solution that did not involve syncing, downgrading to Palm desktop 6, putting my addresses in gmail or money. Ended up with a pdb converter. It took my pdb address book file, which I got directly from the Palm using Filez, and translated it to a form that the Droid can read. I put those files onto the droid's sd card, and pulled the information directly into the droid contacts list. I'd call the transition about as good as it possibly could get given that Palm's entry slots were a lot more flexible than the Droid's are. The information came over and I only had to do limited editing to make those entries usable.
Calendar -- Still working on it. The challenges:
(1) My solution cannot involve syncing. There is a reason for this, but it involves lots of cursing and an XP emulator on Windows 7.
(2) I don't want to lose my categories of data.
(3) I have a LOT of data in my calendar. A mind-boggling amount.
(4) I didn't want to pay for the solution.
(5) I didn't want to put my data in yahoo calender or outlook calendar to get it there.
You would not BELIEVE some of the transition solutions out there. Seriously, you put your data in YAHOO CALENDAR to get it into Google calendar?! *shake head in disgust* Still, the pdb converter came to my rescue. LOVE these guys (Oh, and if you are following in my path READ THE WIKI). They had directions specific to the calendar transition.
The final hurdle came that my biggest calendar category was Too Big to pull into Google Calendar. And what is "too big" is not documented any place I can find. But the file would not go. So today I went back to the pdb converter, remembering that it allowed me to specify dates. So, I specified one year chunks. And am now about halfway through the transition. *sigh*
I hate change. This change, specifically. I have been working on this transition of my data for three ENTIRE days now. And it is looking like I will NEVER again have the capability and flexibility I had on my Palm Treo 680. My reason for change is two words: True Love. The technology itself is not worth it. I am losing a lot, and have yet to gain anything I consider rating more than "that's nice, but I could live without it if I could have my flexible calendar back."
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