@ 14:36:25 -0600 [ Wed, 2 Jan 2002], Joe Finocchiaro [JF] wrote these words of wisdom: ... JF> Marck, may I ask you to elaborate on that a little? I'm about to JF> get my desktop back from the shop, so I'm going to try to JF> "synchronize" it with my new notebook.
You don't have to synchronise in the situation you're describing. You merely need to do a backup and restore operation....... which is what you pretty much described below. JF> Is this how I would start? JF> 1. Install another copy of TB! on my desktop computer. JF> 2. Backup the system on my notebook computer. JF> 3. Copy the backup file to removable storage, e.g., a JF> Zip disk. JF> 4. Using the "restore" function on the desktop, update the desktop to JF> match the notebook. Yes. You would have had to create an account when you did the initial TB! installation on the desktop. You can delete this account afterwards and you're done. JF> Is that it? Yup. JF> Okay, after that, does it matter which system becomes the "master"? No. JF> E.g., say I will normally use the notebook as my "everyday" computer. JF> Then, say, for reasons of convenience, I use the desktop to download JF> some e-mail (and maybe add a new folder) without first "synchronizing" JF> it with the notebook. It doesn't matter. You only have to synchronise once. The synchronisation process doesn't delete mail. It merely adds mail, folders and settings from the source system that aren't present in the target system. JF> How would I get the two systems "synchronized" again? If both installations have mail that the other doesn't have and you really wish for one to be a replica of the other then you'd have to synchronise twice, in both directions. JF> Or would I be out of luck in that case? JF> Does it work in the same manner as the "synchronization" process that JF> goes on between my Palm Pilot and my computer? I.e., I press the JF> "Sync" button on the cradle and the program figures out which JF> information belongs on each device to bring them both up-to-date with JF> each other? JF> How about a step-by-step tutorial? Alright. Say you've been using the laptop for a while and wish to switch to using the desktop. You wish to update the desktops TB! installation so that the templates and mail folders will be like the laptops. You'd do the following: a) On the desktop, start the synchronisation panel and run step 1. What this does is create a snapshot of the settings and mail folder structure/content, present in the desktop installation. Copy the file generated during this process to a zip disk. b) On the laptop installation, open the synchronisation panel and select step 2. In this step the laptop installation is compared with that of the desktop using the file on the zip disk. You'll therefore be prompted for this file. It will generate another file. This one will contain all the restoration data to update the desktop installation to be like the laptop installation. You'll be asked to enter a file name of your choice for this restoration file etc. When you're finished, save this new file to a zip disk and go back to the desktop. c) On the desktop, run step 3 in the synchronisation panel. It will ask you for the restoration file that you generated on the laptop in step 2. It will now use the data in that file to update the desktop installation. You're done!! Clear as mud?? :-) -- �Allie C Martin -- List Moderator and fellow end-user PGPKey - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=PGPPubKey1 [MUA: TB! v1.54 Beta/20 (*) OS: WinXP Home] �� -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
