[rosebud]

Dear Dannzeman,

thank you for replying, I really appreciate that. The only help my other half offered was to state there are many sites online to help. He's always bothered that I know about technology as much, if not more than he does, however back to the problem I am wishing to learn to solve.

On the Treo it comes with Sprite backup, so having made a back up of my xda using the 'xbackup', I believed it would be as simple as opening sprite on the Treo and restoring, however it's not that simple is it? They are two totally different programs.

I then installed a Sprite backup for the XDA and backed up again using this backup, that gave me a file which is a exe. file and put it on the sd card. I then put this card into the Treo and opened the Sprite backup on the Treo, when I went restore, the Treo states looking for all backups and finds nothing. I then used file explorer to access the file directly of the card and so far so good.

It opens the exe file and gives the option to restore from several points. I know obviously I dont want to restore any apps or hard stuff from the 5 year old XDA, just the sms and contacts, so I select the following two choices: mail/messages & personal databases, and nothing else.

I then hit restore and the following comes up on the Treo: The backup file was not made on this device or operating system. Restoring from the file may cause significant problems. I then hit 'yes', it then asks 'do I wish to enable Device Upgrade mode?' Not sure what that refers to, so hit I hit 'no'.

So far so good, it takes me to start restore, I hit start and then get 'An unexpected error has occured. Operation failed'. and then have to 'ok' to soft-reset the device.

So that's where I am, lost. There is a small tiny image of the xda on the back up screen, as in from sd card to phone, does this mean it thinks it should be restoring to an xda and not a Treo? What can I do?

Best and thanks.
Rose.