Recover contacts from Palm?

Question

Alright. I had all my contacts on my palm desktop, but my computer crashed. I have all the contacts on my palm and i need to restore them back to the computer. However, last time i tried to do this the empty database on my computer synced to my palm and i lost all my information. Is there anyway to ensure palm desktop does not automatically sync or is there a way to recover my contacts from my palm without having to use the Palm Desktop software?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Open Palm Desktop.  Make sure you have a user that is the same as the one on your palm.  Select that user.  Go to HotSync and click custom.  Click on contacts and hit change.  Select Handheld overwrites Desktop and check Set as a default to make sure that it does this when you hotsync.  Then hotsync, you should have all your contacts.  Don't forget to change the setting back to sync.