I believe I found the files used in backupbuddy on a mac to do a restore:
mac user name>documents>Palm>Users>[username] >BackUpBuddy>BB2DataStore>[then a long list of all the files on treo] So, I should delete BB2DatateStore on Mac. Do a hard reset on Treo. And then begin manual rebuild? On Jul 5, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Jeff Fort wrote: > is the backup folder within backupbuddy on my mac? > > On Jul 5, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Sam Kamens wrote: > > > > > > > Jeff Fort wrote: > > > Let me reveal my inexperience. I did a hard reset with the > intention > > > of doing a manual rebuild. Then I put an app in the "send to > > > handheld" folder to start the process. Upon hotsync, everything > that > > > was on the treo before was reinstalled so that the treo is exactly > > > the way it was before. I use backupbuddy on my mac. I thought it > > > simply did a backup upon hotsync. Is it doing the restore? Can I > > > tell it not to do so? > > > > > > > When you HotSync, your applications are copied by the HotSync > > process to > > a Backup folder; when you then go to restore from a hard reset, the > > backed-up items are automatically restored. > > > > To do a clean install, you need to find the Backup folder and > move it > > out of the way before HotSyncing. > > > > On Windows, you find the folder as follows: > > > > * Take the last name/first initial of your HotSync name, up to 8 > > characters (so mine is KamensS) > > * Look in c:\Program Files\Palm\KamensS\Backup > > > > Not sure where it is on the Mac. > > > > Hope this Helps, > > > > Sam > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
