[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Hotsync Crashes Zodiac

[Scott Gruby]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Aric Pedersen wrote:

> Recentlly I've noticed an odd and annoying problem that only happens 
> on my Mac.
>
> Some quick background:
>
> I have a Mac at home with the Missing Sync (currently using the last 
> publicly released beta). This is my primary machine. However, I also 
> have a PC I use at work, and I sync my Zodiac there using the "off the 
> shelf" Zodiac-enhanced Palm Desktop software.
>
> My Zodiac 2 was recently upgraded with 2 1-GB SD cards (I used to have 
> 2-512 MB cards). Ever since then, my hotsyncs work, but MS puts a 
> warning in the log that it can't find my old cards. This isn't the 
> issue, everything otherwise worked fine for over a month.
>
> The issue:
>
> Recently, whenever I sync to my Mac, the sync completes just fine, but 
> immediately afterwards, my Zodiac crashes and I receive a warning that 
> my Z2 has become unresponsive and I need to soft reset it. After the 
> soft reset, all is fine until the next The sync log on my Mac only 
> notes the standard "I can't find those old SD cards" error.
>
> Syncing to my PC does not cause my Zodiac2 to crash after the hotsync.
>
> Ideas?
>

What conduits are you using? The MAL conduit has a bug in it that will 
causes the handheld to crash after a sync; the author is supposed to be 
fixing it soon. You might try disabling conduits to see which one is 
causing the issue.

Also, which conduit says "I can't find those old SD cards"? If it is 
the install conduit, look in your ~/Users/Palm/username/Files To 
Install/ folder and remove the cards. I suspect that it is documents to 
go causing this error, however.

BTW, a Zodiac 2 with a 256 MB card and sometimes a 512 MB card is my 
primary device that I sync with a bunch of conduits.

--
Scott Gruby
Lead Engineer, Missing Sync for Palm OS
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