data backup

hi all,
happy new year

Whenever I want to take a backup of phone data on my pc, I get an error
message at the end of the transfer session, and it says - "Failed to
copy the following data -

contacts-

C:\system\Data\Contacts.cdb ."
Everything else (including images, sound clippings, messages etc were
stored and could be recovered later, when needed) What does this error
message mean? Is there a part of data that hasn't been stored or is
there another transfer error? I had to format my cell a few days back
and when I tried to transfer the data backup from my pc to the phone, I
found that the whole contact list was empty and I had to build my
contacts list from the scratch!!
I've been using Nokia 6681 since 6 months and have been facing this
problem. How can I ensure that everything is copied to and from my cell
phone?
Please help.

Prachi

niki wrote:

> Whenever I want to take a backup of phone data on my pc, I get an error
> message at the end of the transfer session, and it says - "Failed to
> copy the following data -
>
> contacts-
>
> C:\system\Data\Contacts.cdb ."
> Everything else (including images, sound clippings, messages etc were
> stored and could be recovered later, when needed) What does this error
> message mean? Is there a part of data that hasn't been stored or is
> there another transfer error? I had to format my cell a few days back
> and when I tried to transfer the data backup from my pc to the phone, I
> found that the whole contact list was empty and I had to build my
> contacts list from the scratch!!

I would guess the C:\system\Data\Contacts.cdb file is badly corrupted, you
could try to rename the file and retrieve the contacts and see if it works.

File corruption is a common thing on VFAT and NTFS file systems, specially on
the first one.

--

//Aho

On 1 Jan 2007 04:23:31 -0800, "niki" <pkathuria83@gmail.com> wrote this with
the utmost thought:

>hi all,
>happy new year
>
>Whenever I want to take a backup of phone data on my pc, I get an error
>message at the end of the transfer session, and it says - "Failed to
>copy the following data -
>
> contacts-
>
> C:\system\Data\Contacts.cdb ."

I missed this detail first pass. Is the filename shown exactly as you wrote
above and this is on the 'phone? If so then the space after the .cdb . then
the last period is what's screwing things up. If you can rename the file to
erase the " ." at the end then you may be able to copy off the file.

>Everything else (including images, sound clippings, messages etc were
>stored and could be recovered later, when needed) What does this error
>message mean? Is there a part of data that hasn't been stored or is
>there another transfer error? I had to format my cell a few days back
>and when I tried to transfer the data backup from my pc to the phone, I
>found that the whole contact list was empty and I had to build my
>contacts list from the scratch!!
>I've been using Nokia 6681 since 6 months and have been facing this
>problem. How can I ensure that everything is copied to and from my cell
>phone?
>Please help.
>
>Prachi

Hello!

Have you tried Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones (
http://www.opm-2.com/symbian/ )? With our software you can easily read your
phonebook and save its backup on a safe place on your disk.

--
Best regards, Maxim Vyalkov.
Oxygen Software - tools for your mobile phone.
Oxygen Phone Manager II - all you want from your mobile phone.
http://www.opm-2.com/
http://www.oxygensoftware.com/

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> hi all,
> happy new year
>
> Whenever I want to take a backup of phone data on my pc, I get an error
> message at the end of the transfer session, and it says - "Failed to
> copy the following data -
>
> contacts-
>
> C:\system\Data\Contacts.cdb ."
> Everything else (including images, sound clippings, messages etc were
> stored and could be recovered later, when needed) What does this error
> message mean? Is there a part of data that hasn't been stored or is
> there another transfer error? I had to format my cell a few days back
> and when I tried to transfer the data backup from my pc to the phone, I
> found that the whole contact list was empty and I had to build my
> contacts list from the scratch!!
> I've been using Nokia 6681 since 6 months and have been facing this
> problem. How can I ensure that everything is copied to and from my cell
> phone?
> Please help.
>
> Prachi
>
>