The backup folder has nothing to do with Backupbuddy, as you'll have one 
whether you use Backupbuddy or not.  See if this thread: 
http://mytreo.net/forum/index.php/topic,4462.0.html on mtdn helps.

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

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