> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> I thought I finally understood about preferences, saved and
> unsaved, and why
> you'd want to use one and not the other. But then, I found a
> file in my
> Backup directory on my PC called Unsaved_Preferences.PRC.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> 1. Why is the file a .PRC and not a .PDB? I thought these
> were preference
> DATABASES....
I think that -resource- databases are stored by the default
conduit as .PRC and -other- databases are stored as .PDB.
Apps are resources databases, but are not the -only- resource
databases.
> 2. Why does this file exist? I thought the whole point of UNSAVED
> preferences was that they do NOT get backed up to your PC?
It exists because somebody set the backup bit at some time.
This could have been done manually w/ a utility like BackupBuddy
or Z'Catalog or it could have been done by some misguided app.
Oh, it could also have been done by Palm if you upgraded to
OS 3.3 -- part of the process is to back up EVERY database
on the Palm. I presume this would be included.
--
-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
