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>.
