Palm Sucks: hotsync
So I upgraded to Palm Desktop 6.2 from v4 something. I did this so I could try out Pimlical. The desktop app is fine, but the new hotsync application is crap. It’s slower, it broke my bluetooth hotsync setup, and it has stupid fading effects for it’s windows. And I now get an error message about not being able to backup PmTraceDatabase from the Palm. As I did this upgrade yesterday and it appeared that all the parts of the sync that I cared about were working, I ignored the message.
This afternoon, my friend John both pointed out a knowledge base article from Palm describing this problem. Palm;s solution, is to just ignore the error message. While this an acceptable short term workaround, it is not acceptable as a long term fix. John had the bright idea to use Filez to remove the backup bit from that file on the Palm. Problem solved. Thanks John.
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