ajleo01

Great summary. I'm currently shopping for a third party backup app and this will help. One comment though - you mention that Dell's data backup utility works as of A12, but it doesn't work at all for myself and a few others who have posted here. The problem is it chugs along for a while and then gives a "sd card is removed or is read only" message. Same for CF cards. I haven't been able to find a post that points to a solution to this problem. That's actually why I'm shopping for a third party app.

Menneisyys

UPDATE (09/12/2007):

1. The Sprite folks have just published an Spb vs. Sprite Backup chart, mostly based on mine, updated to cover both WM6 and their last, recently-released Sprite Backup version 6. It also has some new, WM6 screenshots, might be worth giving it a thorough read as, in thenear future, I probably won't have the time to update the Bible to cover Sprite Backup 6.
2. Should you "only" need to backup / restore / transfer your PIM, mail and phone data (everythign except MMS messages), you will seriously want to consider the free (!) PIM Backup, which does all this. See THIS tutorial for a complete tutorial.

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Apothecon

I occasionally do a hard reset to "clean" my Axim of useless,corrupt files etc.Then I sync via Activesync and reinstall all my programs manually.I realize I could just retore a backup, but wouldn't I be restoreing those useless,corrupt files I was trying to get rid of in the first place ? Thanks Alan