[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Safest way to upgrade from Clie to Tungsten?

[Pascal Lessard]

Hi Steven !

     Le 2005-04-09 à 08:20, Folberg Steven a écrit :

> I’ll be receiving shortly a new Tungsten C, to replace my dying  
> Clie. What
> I’m wondering is, what’s the safest way to do the first hotsync of  
> the new
> PDA? If I just sync to Missing Sync, it’ll restore everything that  
> was on
> the Clie, including stuff that’s redundant (such as Jot) or perhaps  
> even
> incompatible (like Clie Paint or the Clie version of Zap 2016, or some
> obscure system prefs file that will crash the Tungsten). How do I  
> do this?

     This page pretty much explains this all :

http://kb.palmone.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE? 
New,Kb=PalmSupportKB,ts=Palm_External2001,Case=obj(12926)

     But before you do, I would recommend you make sure you have the  
absolute latest backup of your Clie's content :
1- Erase the folder ~/Documents/Palm/Users/(your user name)/Backups
2- Perform a last sync using your Clie. This will recreate the  
deleted backup folder and backup the last version of everything that  
is on your Clie (at least everything that can be backed up).
3- Compress this folder to have a permanent backup you can return to  
anytime.

     My understanding is that this Tungsten C is going to be second  
hand. I would also recommend that you do a hard reset to make sure no  
stray data has remained from the previous user : http:// 
www.tankerbob.com/palm/resets.htm

> Also, I sync to 2 machines, my Mac at home and the PC at work. I  
> have Backup
> Buddy installed at work. Am I better off somehow doing the first  
> hotsync
> there?

     I'll leave that to someone more knowledgeable !

     Yours,

                 Pascal Lessard