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I am currently trying to migrate my data in Palm Desktop 4 (that's right, the one that came with the Pilot m500...) to a new Blackberry using the Desktop Manager's "Device Switch Wizard." Although it seems to be working at first, it completely stops (and becomes "Not Responding") after importing exactly 2971 records from the Calendar - which happens to be the first thing it pulls out. Closing the instance of Palm Desktop that the Wizard opens (both before and after it freezes) and waiting for over 15 minutes both do no good. I'm not sure whether or not it is a RAM issue, as there is a RAM meter on my Vista Sidebar and it stayed almost constant at 38% out of the almost 3GB of RAM I have.
Actually, whenever I deleted old records, the number that were processed pre-freeze increased. I don't recall the exact number anymore, as I currently no longer have access to that laptop. Anyway, most of the data was incredibly old, so there was nothing of value lost. – mmirate – 2011-02-16T21:47:14.720
What that implies is that it wasn't a solid block of corrupt records. So if record 100 and 150 and 200 were corrupt, after deleting them you'd be able to get at least 200 imported. And of course, corrupt meaning that the BB software won't import it. It could be a record with an empty name field, or one with punctuation where it shouldn't be. I forget exactly but somewhen around when version 4 of the handheld code started getting released, RIM started requiring cleaner data when importing from other sources. It really made a difference in reducing synching problems. – mockman – 2011-02-17T02:03:38.617