Accessing Old Palm III Data

I stopped synching to the handheld about 1 year ago and just continued to use the desktop to enter data. I recently moved into a new Visa desktop PC and installed the Palm OS that supported my old setup. I don't remember the exact way I had my user name entered (only know it used to store in an "EJ" folder) .. can't figure out how to load the old data. I figure it was intentionally made difficult to prevent hackers and theives - but I've grown attached to my old data (just not my old PC or the old device). Time to upgrade - but if I can't even access the data ... what incentives do I have? If I have to start over I'll just create an Access database form.
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Do you still have the data in Palm desktop on the old PC? If you do, you can export the data from each category, save to a flash drive, cd-rw or hard drive then import the data into Palm desktop on the new PC. You can find out the username that the handheld is using by going into hotsync on the handheld and looking in the upper right corner for the name.
If you are copying the userfolder to the new PC, paste it into the Palm folder on the PC. See if that may work. You can only do this if you are using the same version of Palm desktop.
If you don't sync the handheld to the PC, if you lose data there is no backup file you can rename to recover the data. When you sync with the handheld, Palm desktop creates 2 files, for example; datebook.dat and datebook.bak. If you lose data in Palm desktop you can rename the .bak file to recover the data provided you have only sync'ed once.
Here is a procedure for backing up your data, especially if you do not sync.
The best way to preserve your data is to export the data in each category in Palm Desktop to a seperate folder on your PC.
Create a new folder on your PC somewhere that is convenient. Name it something like Palm Desktop Data. Click on the link below and follow the instructions on that page for the export procedure.
http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=28734
Make sure you select all for the range in the export window.
With the data saved in the folder you created, make a copy of that folder and save to a flash drive, cd-rw or external hard drive.
Anytime you make a change in Palm Desktop, export the data that was changed to that folder and save again to the external media.
With this process you can always import the data back into Palm Desktop anytime you have a problem with the data in Palm Desktop or if your computer/hard drive/device crashes.
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