Ann, if it would help, you can borrow my old Palm m105 and its cradle to make the transfer. Email me off-list if you like.
(I know it won't solve the greater mystery, but it might at least let you go on to more interesting projects. ;-) ) Alex Whitman alylex at mac.com On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Do you have any troubles with other kinds of documents that you email > to your Mac from your pc? > If so your pc's email program may be mangling the attachment so that > OS 9.1 cannot read it correctly. Try some of the other methods for > attachments (bin-hex, binary, etc.) > > I seem to recall that in OS 9.1, Apple did not have very much of the > MacLinkPlus file type translators built in to the OS like they do in > the later systems. > What happens when you export only one vcard and send it? > Also do you have MacLinkPlus? If so, have you tried to use it to > translate the file? > > Jerry > > > On Apr 19, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Ann Richmond wrote: > >> Well I am completely stumped----again. >> >> After your several excellent advice about how to get my palm >> addresses etc from my work pc (Windows 2000) into my husband's >> Titanium powerbook, I decided to try moving it from the pc to my 9600 >> Mac running OS9.1. >> My pda is dead and I didn't want to spend the money to get another >> one just to move this stuff with. >> >> So... >> I downloaded Palm 4 for Mac to the 9600 and it seems to be very happy. >> I downloaded Palm 4 for the pc and it seems to work fine and did not >> lose any of my data. (Whew!) >> Thinking that success couldn't be far away I located the >> import/export instructions, which seem simple enough for a baby to >> follow. >> I have done what they instruct on both Mac and pc ends several times >> and nothing happens. >> >> vcard method >> on pc. >> Select all in the address window. >> choose export as vcard. save to desktop on pc. >> email file to self at 9600. >> email received. vcard saved to desktop on 9600. (All is well so far >> but here is the problem) >> The Mac instructions for importing vcards say to "drag the vcard file >> onto the address book". I have done this every way I can think of and >> it just slides back where it was on the desktop. >> I have also tried the import command from the file menu. The error >> box says that vcard is not a readable file. >> >> Then I tried dragging the vcard icon on the desktop over the Palm >> icon on the desktop. Palm opened and the error box says "the file is >> an unreadable format." >> >> Can anyone point out what I might be screwing up? >> >> Thanks as always, >> Ann >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
