Ok, it's useful to know that about the install tool, thanks. But it's not
the file extension, it must be something in the database that makes the
install tool think it's non-standard. The databases in question are
initially created on the device by my app, then backed up to the PC
(actually a Mac in my case) via the standard HotSync backup conduit.
So here's more detail on what I know: Databases created on a IIIc, backed up
using the standard HotSync backup conduit (using the Mac HotSync that came
with the IIIc; sorry, don't have it with me and don't remember the version).
When I try to install these databases onto the m505 using the Mac HotSync
that came with the m505, it refuses to install them onto the handheld.
If I run my app (exact same version) on the m505, let it create the DBs, do
a HotSync to get them backed up, then try to install them, it works just
fine.
So this leads me to think that maybe the older backup conduit is setting (or
not setting?) something that makes the newer install conduit think the DBs
are non-standard? Except that I have DBs from other applications that went
through the exact same sequence and they install just fine on the m505. So
I'm back to thinking that it must be something I'm doing (or not doing) when
I create the DBs. Except that then why does it work ok when the DBs are
created (by the exact same code) on the m505 in the first place??
This is very frustrating.
--Jim Preston
"David Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:48886@palm-dev-forum...
>
> >I just got an m505 with a 16MB expansion card. While copying my apps and
> >data onto it, I hit something really odd. I'm using the HotSync install
> >tool, and when I selected the databases for a particular app, the
> >destination came up as the expansion card. I tried using the "change
> >destination" dialog, but was definitively told by it that these databases
> >cannot be installed onto the handheld.
>
> Do you have a nonstandard extension, or some other reason that the install
> tool would think it wasn't a PRC or PDB?
>
> If the install tool doesn't think it is a resource or record database, it
> isn't going to try to install it internally, but it'll allow any random
> file to be installed onto a card.
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
>
>
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