> I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong here but I just can't see it. > > I have a number of pdb files that I want to convert to text. It seems > that the > simplest solution is kpalmdoc (part of kdepim). > > So... > > I crank up kpalmdoc and find two file selection boxes: "Text file:" and > "DOC file:". If I select the palmdoc file in the "DOC file" box and leave > the > "Text file:" box empty, then click on "Convert PalmDOC to Text", I get > this > message: "The text file /home already exists. Overwrite it?" > > Er, no, let's not overwrite that. > > If I select a directory name under "Text file:" it tells me that "The text > file /directory/I/selected already exists. Overwrite it?" > > In order to convert an individual file to a text file I have to create a > dummy > text file first, then select that and tell the program to overwrite it. > > It gets worse if I select "Convert whole folders". Then I get two > selection > boxes, "Text folder:" and "Palmdoc folder". No matter what I selections I > make > in those boxes, I always get the message "No text files were converted > correctly" when I click on "Convert PalmDOC to Text". > > So, what am I doing wrong here? I can do this job by creating a > dummy file for each of the pdb files that I want to convert, then > individually > selecting each file and telling it to overwrite the dummy file but that's > obviously not the right way to do it. > > On a related note, can this conversion be done from the command line > instead of > having to go through the gui? As I recall, pdb files are Palm database files (contacts, memos, etc), not doc files. I could be wrong, but my experience tells me otherwise. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
