My situation – I wanted to import my Palm Desktop data to Outlook.

There is an offering by chapura that does this but it costs some $.

I found out this free alternative which will do it.

The experience I had with exporting Palm data to comma delimited files or tab delimited files were not satisfactory.

A better way is for Palm to export vcs for calendar events and vcf for the contacts information that Outlook can import. But there are also no ready scripts in python to export Palm data to vcs, vcf files.

Fortunately, Palm ships with software to synchronize the handheld data to either Palm Desktop or Outlook.

Therefore I could import Palm Desktop data by first transferring my Desktop data to Palm handheld and then synchronize the handheld with Outlook.

Here are the steps:

Step 1 – Transfer Palm Desktop to handheld

Configure Hotsync Custom:

Use either Synchronize files or Desktop overwrites handheld

Step 2 – Configure Hotsync to sync handheld to Outlook

Essentially you are setting up the Palm handheld to synchronize to Outlook instead of Palm Desktop

Step 3 – Transfer handheld date to Outlook

Configure Hotsync Custom:

Use either Synchronize files or Handheld overwrites Desktop