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  • Re: Converting Palm Pilot PDB Files for Use in Excel?

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Foriest Jan Smith on Thursday, November 13, 2025 07:16:46
    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 Dr. What@21:1/246 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, November 16, 2025 17:39:22
    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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