Thanks, John. I see a "Backup" folder for my treo user name. that must be it. i'll more it or change the name when i start this hard reset/manual rebuild effort. too busy today and i don't have any severe problems, but my 700P just seems to be too slow.
On Jul 5, 2007, at 11:09 AM, J Messeder wrote: > 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? > > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family > table." / > (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th > anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
