{"id":129,"date":"2010-05-12T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2022-08-31T05:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:36:46","slug":"daynotez-desktop-file-locator-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"DayNotez Desktop File Locator available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given the \u201cend of life\u201d to Palm OS devices, I\u2019ve been getting a fair number of users requesting a way to continue using DayNotez Desktop data files on newer computer systems that they no longer have access to (or want to install) the Palm Desktop and HotSync. In the past I had given instructions on how to manually move your existing data files to the new system and modify the registry with Regedit in order to \u201ctrick\u201d DayNotez Desktop into thinking it has a valid installed user. Over the past couple of days however, I put together a simple tool that helps in this process until the time comes that we maybe have a DayNotez Desktop standalone application.<\/p>\n

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So, how does this work?<\/p>\n

1) If you don\u2019t already have DayNotez Desktop installed on your system (or can\u2019t due to the installation requirements that either HotSync\/Palm or ActiveSync\/PPC being installed on your system), then download the latest 1.7 beta files<\/a> from our site and unzip them into a folder such as \u201cC:Program FilesNataraDayNotez\u201d or \u201cC:Program Files (x86)NataraDayNotez\u201d on a 64 bit system.<\/p>\n

2) Copy your existing 2 DayNotez Desktop data files (both the .dnz and .mdw files) to a folder on your new system. You could create a DayNotez folder in your \u201cDocuments\u201d directory and place them there if you like. If you need help finding those files please refer the documentation section on \u201cHow Do I\u2026 Backup my data files<\/a>\u201d. Remember where you place them since you\u2019ll need to locate them with the tool.<\/p>\n

3) Download the \u201cDayNotez Data File Locator<\/a>\u201d zip file and unzip the \u201cDDFL.exe\u201d file. Run that file. Now just use the \u201cBrowse\u201d button to locate the data file pair. Once the tool verifies the data files you can select the \u201cCREATE\u201d button and it will create the necessary registry entries in order to DayNotez Desktop to work.<\/p>\n

A couple of quick notes:<\/p>\n

1) This tool will NOT create new data files. It is intended to be used by existing DayNotez Desktop customers who have already used the product with a handheld device and hence already have a set of data files. Data files are currently ONLY created at the time of a sync with a handheld device.<\/p>\n

2) You can run this tool on an existing system in order to add outside existing data files. Keep in mind if you should only add uniquely named data files (the part of the name before the \u201cDayNotez.dnz\u201d part). Adding a set of data files that has the same name as an existing user will overwrite the location of the existing users data files. It will not, however, overwrite one set of data files with another. It simply redirects where the data files are opened from.<\/p>\n

3) In regards to #2 above, the DayNotez \u201cuser\u201d that is created or modified is based off the prefix or the data file set you point to. So, a set of data files named \u201cMr Fox DayNotez.XXX\u201d will use the data files and setup or use an existing \u201cMr Fox\u201d user. The \u201cDayNotez.XXX\u201d part of the file name is a requirement, so don\u2019t try to do without it. Most users won\u2019t have to worry about that anyway.<\/p>\n

4) The tool works with either Palm or Windows Mobile data file types.<\/p>\n

5) ALWAYS KEEP BACKUP COPIES OF ANY DATA! YOU CAN\u2019T RESTORE WHAT YOU HAVEN\u2019T BACKED UP.<\/p>\n

Hope this tool is of some use to some of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the \u201cend of life\u201d to Palm OS devices, I\u2019ve been getting a fair number of users requesting a way to continue using DayNotez Desktop data files on newer computer systems that they no longer have access to (or want to install) the Palm Desktop and HotSync. In the past I had given instructions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,5,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.natara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}