On a PC, it would be a subfolder of your personal Palm folder. For
instance, on my machine it's
C:\Program Files\Handspring\MessedJ\Backup
where MessedJ is created by the Palm installation from my user name,
John Messeder
So on your Mac, start at the top of your hard drive and look for
Handspring or Palm (Or something similar), open it and look for FortJ
(or something like that), then open that and look for Backup
To move Backup out of the way, all you really need to do it rename
it; e.g. Old.Backup
It's good to save that folder's and its contents, at least until you
are certain you've solved the rest of your problems, because sometimes
there is something in there you find out you didn't want to lose.
Backup is updated every time you hotsync. You can look at its
contents and see what's there. But, as previously mentioned, when you do
a hard reset on the handheld, that's also where all the stuff comes from
to restore -- so if it backed up something bad, it's gonna put back the
something bad.
This backup has nothing to do with any other backup program you may
be using; e.g. BackupBuddy, RescoBackup, etc. The only similarity is you
can do yourself from, for instance, Backup Buddy the same thing Hotsync
will do from its backup folder.
Considering your problem, you DO NOT want to restore any backups
right now. Install everything from scratch and see if your problem comes
back.
Jeff Fort wrote:
> is the backup folder within backupbuddy on my mac?
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> On Jul 5, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Sam Kamens wrote:
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>> Jeff Fort wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> To do a clean install, you need to find the Backup folder and move it
>> out of the way before HotSyncing.
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>> On Windows, you find the folder as follows:
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>> * 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
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>> Not sure where it is on the Mac.
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>> Hope this Helps,
>>
>> Sam
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