Thanks, Nelson for your input into this. I am saving your suggestions . Panther was just installed on my machine and I have to reinstall the Palm saoftware, since it is not taken over in the process. After that I shall take the necessary steps to get both handhelds to work in iSync via hot-sync. There is nothing better to learn about a systems's possibilities and shortcomings than to have trouble. One learns so much during the frustration. I've come a long way in my random clicking abilities and my checking the innards of this machine. P.S. It is not the hot-sync per se that gives me trouble. i have a pure hot-sync capability on my PB. without it being integrated with iSync. It is the hot-sync-iSync integration that throws things of on my iMac. Marta On Feb 7, 2004, at 1:11, Nelson Helm wrote:
> I'm running OS 9.2.2, not OS X, and > I'm using Palm HotSync software, not iSync, > but consider: > > 1. create two user names. > For each name, the HotSync software will create a [username] folder in > the Users folder. > > In each [username] folder it will create files named "User Data" and > "User Data Archive". > > Note that the [username] folders names vary, but the names they > contain are identical. > > 2. HotSync one pilot. > > 3. Copy the "Users" folder and save the copy where HotSyncing will not > react with it. > I recommend "stuffing" it to guarantee that the HotSync program does > change it. > > 4. Put the "User Data" and "User Data Archive" copies from the > recently HotSynct [username] folder into the other, unHotSynct > [username] folder, replacing the incumbent files (which you have > saved, right?!). > > 5. HotSync the 2nd pilot. > > 6. Loop to step 3, but with the [username] folders reverst. > > Nelson > > > > >> Thanks, Harry, for your input. I had thought the same thing, that's >> why I used the same user name and thought i could sync into the two >> devices without trouble, in fact, i had been advised by palm to do >> just that last year when my husband had the plain Zire. It worked >> there, except that I had to disable the photo conduit. >> >> Not so here. For reasons unknown, the machine must somehow know it's >> not the same piece of equipment. - ( there must be an issue here, >> because even David Pogue warned in his Missing Manual for Panther , >> not to put more than one device on one computer) .At the moment I let >> the issue rest until I get my settings on the palm right after having >> entered the great world of Panther. >> >> -I shall send Palm an e-mail about the matter. Their e-mail answers >> are better than their telephone assistance which has been outsourced >> to the Phillippines. They can't even put you on hold without cutting >> you off. - I shall report when I find out. I suppose only a person >> like me would have two identical devices and would want to put them >> under the same user name ! >> Marta >> On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:16, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >> >>> Marta, >>> >>> Sorry to be late with this. >>> >>> I have a handspring visor which I sync with palm desktop on my >>> ibook. I >>> don't have two handhelds but it seems to me if you give both of them >>> the >>> same name and the name is the same as the name on the desktop >>> software, >>> that palm desktop wouldn't know the difference. >>> >>> Of course, before you sync the second unit to the desktop make sure >>> it is >>> a clean slate. >>> >>> I have not tried this, but it seems to me it should work. >>> >>> Harry >>> >>> >>> P.S. Be sure to duplicate the palm data files before you sync. That >>> way >>> if there is a goof up you can restore everything easily. >>> >>> Harry >>> Monday, January 26, 20042:30 PMMarta Ediemledie at insightbb.com >>> >>>> I appeal to the palm users among the group.( Palm support was a >>>> disaster.-) >>>> I have two Palm Zires 71. Identical. I also have two computers with >>>> airport and a .mac account. The synchronizing with my old zire goes >>>> just fine. Now until recently I (my husband) also had a regular >>>> zire ( >>>> without the camera) and the synching with that went fine, too. All I >>>> had to do was to disable the photo conduit while synching. I had >>>> both >>>> of them under one user name. >>>> Now comes in the new Zire 71.( Trying to be more efficient and >>>> eliminate the photo conduit switching). I made the account the same, >>>> since my husband and I want the same data on both machines. ( Palm >>>> support said this was ok) However, it is not , I gained double and >>>> triple addresses, then lost all of them .... etc. a nightmare!. >>>> Now the last Missing Manual about Panther by D. Pogue warns that you >>>> should only put one palm to one machine. - Now : Should I put the >>>> new >>>> one on my laptop and give it a new user name? Or should I put it on >>>> my >>>> iMac with a new ( his) user name? Since all those computers >>>> ultimately >>>> synchronize I don't know about the differences of doing one or the >>>> other. I have been helping myself by simply beaming the new entries >>>> from one Zire to the other.But that ultimately is unsatisfactory >>>> -Any >>>> insight and suggestion would be greatly appreciated. >>>> Marta >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> Marta >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > -- > Nelson Helm > Every child a wanted child. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
