converting Palm calendar to 957

[mabman]

Hi, I've done some searching and can't find a definitive answer, so here goes:

The company I'm working for has deployed Blackberry 957 units to a number of people. Some of those people have used Palm units until now, with address books and calendars. The address book should be OK, it can be exported from the Palm Desktop software in a text file, then the fields can be manipulated to match up with the appropriate Blackberry fields, then imported via the "Configure PIM" settings.

However, the Palm software does not seem to export the calendar into anything other than .dba format (or possibly a .pba - I'm not looking at it right now - assuming a Palm database archive??). I haven't taken a serious look at the file format yet - some Google searches seem to indicate either the original file or the archive should be human-readable - possibly XML??

Before I take a crack at this, just wondering if a converter already exists (pointless duplication of effort is a pet peeve of mine).

Also a good description of the Palm calendar file format and the Blackberry importable calendar file format (as a text file) would be useful.

All suggestions appreciated.

[nomad7674]

Palm Desktop 4.1 will also output to .vcf format (vCard format) which is fairly universal. Chances are you can find an importer from there to your RIM (http://www.smartphonetalk.com/cgi-bin/smarttalk/ikonboard.cgi?;act=SC;c=15) devices.

[mabman]

Originally posted by nomad7674
Palm Desktop 4.1 will also output to .vcf format (vCard format) which is fairly universal. Chances are you can find an importer from there to your RIM (http://www.smartphonetalk.com/cgi-bin/smarttalk/ikonboard.cgi?;act=SC;c=15) devices.

PD 4.1 only exports addresses to vcf format - as I mentioned, addresses CAN be exported from PD into a text-file format the Blackberry can read (with some manipulation). The PD calendar, however, is another matter entirely. Fortunately someone already did some leg-work and has written a Perl script to read PD calendar files.

Thus, I am now working on another Perl script that reads the PD calendar and dumps it into a text file format the BB can import.

We'll see how long that takes me ;)