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>.
