# Transferring from Old Palm to New Palm - any issues? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412 "2003-05-30T00:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/1 "2003-05-30T00:41:41Z")
With tomorrow’s paycheck, I’m planning to offer a comfortable retirement to my still-beautiful, but aging and increasingly arthritic, Palm Vx. Her replacement will be a Palm Zire, so I’m staying within the same OS - just a later version. Any “Issues” that I need to know about before installing the new one? ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/2 "2003-05-30T02:00:08Z")
I’ve done it a couple of times. No problems, except once I had a hack program on my old one that turned out to crash the newer model – until I deleted it. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/3 "2003-05-30T02:16:30Z")
My only advice is to back up your data before you do anything. It’s usually under C:\Program\_Files\Palm<username\> or something like that, make sure you get all the subdirectories too. If worst comes to worst, you can copy the backup back to the original directory and start over. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/4 "2003-05-30T05:09:29Z")
I’ll assume you got a Zire71? (Slick little bugger…I love mine!) If so, head [here](http://www.palm.com/support/zire71/) and run through their “Upgrading?” instructional wizard. For me, the process was flawless and painless. Do pay attention to the concept of not dumping in all your existing old programs. I had one cause problems - in a month of use, the only crash I’ve had was from trying to use one of the old programs. Solution at least is easy - just delete the trouble-makers. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/5 "2003-05-30T13:45:37Z")
Thanks everyone - and yes, I’m getting the 71. Should arrive in about a week or ten days, courtesy [buy.com](http://buy.com). [happy happy happy] ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/6 "2003-05-30T17:39:10Z")
Don’t forget to check out the trade-in offer at [palm.com](http://palm.com) - your Vx should be worth something like $50. Not sure if you have to buy it directly from Palm or not. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-from-old-palm-to-new-palm-any-issues/178412/7 "2003-05-30T19:26:17Z")
I thought about that, but I decided against it because (a) I think rebates are a scam and pay no attention to them, and (b) it still works well enough that it might make a good backup if something happens to the new one.