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  • Converting Palm Pilot PDB Files for Use in Excel?

    From Foriest Jan Smith@21:2/156 to All on Thu Nov 13 01:14:19 2025
    Up until now I've been satisfied that although I am left unable to sync my Palm E2 to my Win 11 PC, I can still access the existing information on the device itself. But, as of late, I've felt the desire to just copy the address book over to my PC so I could have a copy for ease of use on my PC. I've been suggested CloudPilotEMU amongst other things but is there a tool to easily convert these files for use in Excel, or Libre Calc?
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Foriest Jan Smith on Thu Nov 13 07:16:46 2025
    Foriest Jan Smith wrote to All <=-

    Up until now I've been satisfied that although I am left unable to sync my Palm E2 to my Win 11 PC, I can still access the existing information on the device itself. But, as of late, I've felt the desire to just
    copy the address book over to my PC so I could have a copy for ease of use on my PC. I've been suggested CloudPilotEMU amongst other things
    but is there a tool to easily convert these files for use in Excel, or Libre Calc?

    Why do I seem to recall Calibre (the e-book manager) can open pdb
    files? If so, it could convert them to something usable, perhaps.



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  • From Foriest Jan Smith@21:2/156 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Nov 14 00:23:21 2025
    Re: Re: Converting Palm Pilot PDB Files for Use in Excel?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Foriest Jan Smith on Thu Nov 13 2025 07:16 am

    Why do I seem to recall Calibre (the e-book manager) can open pdb files? If so, it could convert them to something usable, perhaps.

    While this is true, unfortunately that seems to not apply to Address DB, atleast. My alternate plan is to wait until I have a laptop to run Linux off of, run jPilot, and be able to sync my data/convert to XLS or something of the like.
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  • From Dr. What@21:1/246 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Nov 16 17:39:22 2025
    Why do I seem to recall Calibre (the e-book manager) can open pdb
    files? If so, it could convert them to something usable, perhaps.

    Possible. But remember "PDB" = Palm Database. So a PDB file can be anything.

    So Calibre would probably be able to convert a PDB that was in a known eBook format. But I doubt it would process a PDB that was a contact list.

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  • From Foriest Jan Smith@21:2/156 to Dr. What on Sun Nov 16 22:29:53 2025
    Re: Re: Converting Palm Pilot PDB Files for Use in Excel?
    By: Dr. What to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Nov 16 2025 05:39 pm

    I think my only real option is wait until I'll have the ability to sync the dang thing once I get a Linux laptop. I just wonder if there's a linux compatible version of Documents to Go or if I'll have to use Wine (which--on an unrelated note--can support my Windows XP/98 era programs).
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