[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Conduits Installation CONFUSING???!!!

[Arkady]

I saw this at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12968

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you must disable conduits based on your handheld type   Paul_Christensen  
Version: 4.2.1, 4/29/2004 08:59AM PST
sjonke - in regards to your problems with multiple conduits installed,
starting with the Tungsten T3 and Tungsten E, PalmOne released completely
new organizer apps. These apps have a different database version, and new
capabilities, but they require different conduits. The latest PalmOne
devices (Zire72 and Zire31) also include these new organizer apps.

Palm Desktop installs both sets of conduits, because it has no way of
knowing whether you have a newer device or a classic device. It is up to you
to disable the corresponding conduits (go to HotSync manager, change conduit
properties to "do nothing" and make that the default).

I agree that Palm should have provided some sort of wizard to disable /
enable the conduits based on your handheld type. But to be fair, they have
the same problem on the Windows version of HotSync as well.

And... I applaud PalmOne for its support of Mac OS X by including native
conduits for their new organizer apps
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Boy, sounds like a recipe for a lot of headaches... OBVIOUSLY one MUST BACK
UP USERS FOLDER (Documents/Palm/Users) UNDER A SEPARATE NAME, ON DESKTOP, SO
THAT IT DOESN'T GET OVERWRITTEN!

PalmOne SHOULD offer a detailed information on this PD Upgrade vs. Tungsten
T1-2-3 and other PDA's, otherwise they are going to create more phone calls
to their Tech Support. Or maybe, they WANT those Tech Support calls, so that
they can hit the caller with a $25+ per incident charge, unless one bought a
$49 2 year protection Plan (not sure of the details)?

Till they CLARIFY ALL THIS, we have bits and pieces of 2nd hand information
from 

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12968

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=6772

• Arkady 
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Powerbook 17 1.33 MHz, Mac OS 10.3.3, Tungsten T3, Palm Desktop 4.1