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Syncing palm pilot handheld pda with Nokia N80 / Nokia PC Suite:

Ok, the final process that worked for me was:

1) export the palm calendar to a .dba file

2) import that .dba file into yahoo calendar online

3) *use intellisync (free, from yahoo) to sync my palm w/ Yahoo Calendar. (this step is *optional, I guess, if doing it all at once).

4) export the calendar from yahoo calendar to a .csv file.

5) import the .csv file into microsoft outlook

6) and then set the nokia pc suite to sync w/ outlook.

Now that I’m bald and bloody. But at least it’s done.

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Still battling to get my palm calendar onto the new nokia phone.

Seemed I just had to sync palm w/ outlook, then sync outlook w/ phone and voila.

BUT NOOOOOOOOO.

” To synchronize a Palm Pilot with Outlook, you must have both the Palm desktop software and Chapura PocketMirror software installed.”, and THAT software is FIFTY DOLLARS! F*CK THAT. Thats nice. TO USE IT ONCE?

All I want is to get my palm calendar onto my series 60 Nokia N80. But apparently that’s too much to ask.

And we can put men on the moon…………..

Pulling my hair out.

I have the new Nokia N80 and it’s very advanced, and so for the first time I am considering using the phone as my primary organizer instead of my palm.  I LOVE MY PALM, I have a Sony Clie UX50 which I’ve considered bying extras of because it is the ultimate perfect pda.
But I need to lighten my purse (tech bag, really) cuz I’m having wrist problems. As it is I take two bags to the car, one that stays in the car and has things I use in the car but don’t necessarily need w/ me inside places, such as my “liability camera” (*), my ipod, my umbrella (it rains every day in summer here), etc.

But anyway, the Palm OS will only export the calendar as a .dba file.

The Nokia PC Suite will only sync w/ the calendars of Lotus Organizer and Outlook.

So I don’t want to buy Outlook just to convert one file and never to use it again.

So far I’ve tried Yahoo’s IntelliSync (which created a .csv file) for Yahoo Calendar to sync my palm w/ Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Calendar will THEN export to Outlook, but again, not sure I want to install Outlook.

IntelliSync worked great.

I can log into Yahoo Calendar using the very advanced web browser on the phone, but that’s a million extra steps that I don’t want to do in a hurry.

I tried importing the .csv file into Google Calendar, and Google Calendar said it was formatted wrong.

So I have a .dba file that Nokia won’t use and a .csv file that is broken and I don’t think Nokia would use anyway, and I don’t have (and am not sure I even want to install) Outlook or Lotus.

Therefore, I am going nuts.

(*) I always have at least one camera w/ me and I like to put the DXG 506v on the dashboard when driving in my neighborhood for several reasons: a) kids playing in a dangerous manner in the streets, b) psycho neighbor and his buddies who have been road-raging me since the last neighborhood annua1 meeting.

“I can sew reeeal good, when I was an assistant I would sew nipples on, just
sew them right on, you know I can make a nipple out of this napkin here…”

[[I sent this twice Friday night but it never came thru (a Cingular problem). Pic taken w/ Sony Clie UX50 and sent using it's bluetooth connection to my cell phone's GPRS.]]