Ya see, knowing my dad, he's already been trying to put stuff back in it and I know he's already using it, so my deal will be trying to keep the old and the new to update it to current.
--- In [email protected], "Jennifer Shelamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right - once the contacts are safely on the handheld, set the HotSync > conduits to "Synchronize". > > Jennifer > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, john.messeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > In order - yes and yes. > > Each hotsync, the software overwrites the backup with the new old stuff, > > and makes the new stuff the latest stuff. That's why she said rename the > > .dat to .old before naming the bak. to dat -- just in case something > > went awry and you had to revert. > > Now that it's succeeded, you should be all set. > > As for syncing the new 755 -- when you renamed those files, they became > > the working information. When you hotsync'd the virgin 755, hotsync put > > in it the only information it had -- the stuff in the .dat files from > > the desktop. > > > > On 05/12/2008 at 1620 -0400 > > "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Ya'll are GREAT!!! renaming seems to have worked...Will the software > > > create a new/another .bak folder once it nolonger has one or what? > > > The new unit is a 755p he bought new so just "Synchronizing the > > > data" should update both handheld and desktop correct? > > > > -- > > > > /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family > > table." / > > (News commentator Eric Sevareid in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary > > of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
