how do I retrieve palm desktop file? program not supported

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how do I retrieve palm desktop file? program not supported

I upgraded tonight to Lion, without checking if it supported my old palm desktop application (that came with my old Tungsten). I don't care if I can run the program, I just need access to a few files I created with it's note pad function. specifically they are documented journals, like a blog, about my kids that I did in notes on the palm desktop. I'm a bit frantic now, thinking I've lost access to those files.

I do have several TM backups from Snow, the last one just being a few days ago. I know in the past restore has been simple to do, but after reading discussions here - it doesn't look so easy this time.

Ideally I'd like to uninstall Lion, open the app, copy the file information and install Lion again. I like Lion, but didn't realize I wouldn't be able to open my palm app. My fault, yes. How do I fix it??

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7), palm desktop

Posted on Jul 30, 2011 8:04 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 30, 2011 8:23 PM in response to kimsmacbook

Try this: Use the Finder to navigate to <yourhomefolder>/Documents/Palm/Users/<yourPalmuser>. Point to the file "User Data", control-click (or right-click), in the resulting "contextual" menu roll to "Open With", then to "Other". In the resulting list select TextEdit, then click on "Open". A window will open displaying your Palm user data. The formatting will be horrible, but if you scroll down far enough you may be able to locate the Palm note text that you want. If so, select it, copy it, open a new text window, and paste in the text.

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Jul 30, 2011 10:54 PM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

Thank you soooo much! That worked. I can't tell you enough how relieved I am to have found those notes on the kids. Just little things they did as babies that I jotted down. Will definitely move them to a safer location/program document. Thank you!!

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quillson

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Aug 23, 2011 10:05 AM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

A big thank you from me as well!

I had a similar issue, needing some old notes from my Palm Desktop. This solution worked perfectly!!

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Jan 27, 2012 7:42 PM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

Thank you!!! I have years of data and notes on my palm device. Anyway to make the text data more usable? If not I will have to tough it out.

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Jan 27, 2012 7:58 PM in response to reneefrommi

reneefrommi wrote:

Anyway to make the text data more usable?

The method I described is the only approach I know of. I'd just scroll down the data, copying the usable text as you go and pasting it into another document.

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Jun 9, 2012 12:17 PM in response to kimsmacbook

Tahnk... this help me too!

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Sep 29, 2012 10:10 PM in response to kimsmacbook

That was helpful, thanks. But for me, the text was too currupted in certain memos, so here is what I did to retrieve all my notes.

Of course, I have an iMac that is still running on snow leopard which my kids use, so I downloaded the treo 680 software from HP website and installed it (I could not find the Palm installation CD to down the software from it):

http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/na/treo/680/unlocked/solutions/article/33219 _en.html

Then, I coppied the Palm archive folder which is found in the documents folder on my laptop with the following path in finder:

users/_/documents/palm/users/your_hotsync_id/user_data

I put it on the desktop of my iMac

Then by double clicking on the user data opens the Palm Desktop Manager app and I was able to find all my memos. I copied and pasted the memos I want to iCloud.com Notes.

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