rebuilding a palm, slow and nervous

[redbird]

Testing with absolutely nothing but the native software and no installed data strongly suggests that rivka was right and this is a software problem.

So now I slowly put things back. I've made a copy of the Palm's "backup" directory on the desktop, and removed almost everything from the main/original directory (the one the software looks in).

If I have what I think I do, the just-completed hot sync should have only restored my datebook info.

I'm going to be slowly adding to the Palm--if I can get the datebook and address book working, I can cope. Memo pad and shopping list would be useful. So (yes) would Bubblet.

This entry is mostly a note-to-myself on current status.

12:36: Adding the datebook information--not the snazzy Datebook4 program--seems to have worked.
12:47: Restored address book data. So far, so good.
• Added to-do items with no problem. Added memo pad, and got some errors in the hot sync log about it being unable to add everything, but the Palm still works.
• Next, either HandyShop or figuring out what I need to do to get DateBk4 back.
17:00: I have HandyShop back, and the Palm still works.
17:30: Restored DateBk4, which led to a tedious scan through a lot old email to find my registration code for the software. So far, so good. Prudence suggests stopping here, but I want bubblet. I'll get a fresh copy of MetrO, I think, in case it had been corrupted. I can live without ParensLite (a calculator).
11/7: And now the digitization has wandered off again. Time to start over without DateBk4, or install a brand new copy.

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[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope it stays working now. I had a Handspring with an entirely different but still annoying set of problems. It took to crashing completely and erasing its hard drive randomly. I thought it was a corrupted software problem so I cleaned everything off it and loaded only essentials back on and it worked fine, until we went to Italy. I had installed a couple of guidebooks, itineraries, currency converters, and language books on the thing, but when we got of the plane in Paris and I turned it back on, it had crashed again and lost everything. I managed to refrain from jumping up and down on it and then pitching it in the trash, but I haven't trusted it enough to use it since.