[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Rogue Applications Synched

[Paul Berkowitz]

OK, I did my first sync to my Treo 650, using the same User from Entourage
as I had used previously with my Clié, of course, and as instructed by the
Treo manual. The sync of data went fine. (I did an Entourage Overwrites
Handheld, to be safe.)

But I now discover a few oddities on the Treo: there are now a Clié Demo and
Graffiti applications which, naturally, error if I click on them. I'd like
to get rid of them.

A search of my hard drive, searching everywhere I can think of in all the
disparate places inherited by MS from Palm Desktop's peculiar organization
of files, finds, so far, only one place where these might have come from:

    ~/Documents/Palm/Users/Me/Backup/

This folder now has mostly .pdb files, including what is obviously new Treo
stuff, a few Missing Sync-created .pdb files, maybe some older stuff too,
plus a few .prc files. Aside from Missing Sync.prc, there are a few other
"Handheld program files" with icons that are different from the Treo .pdb's,
namely:

    ClieDemo.prc
    Graffiti Shortcuts.prc
    Graffiti.prc
    S01.prc
    Saved Preferences.prc

I don't know about the last two (does anyone know if those were also from
the Clié or are needed also by the Treo?), but the first three are the
obvious culprits.

Is it good enough to just remove them from the Backup folder and sync, or do
I also need to somehow delete them from the Treo (how?). I haven't found
anything yet in the big Treo manual about getting rid of inherited files
from previous handhelds, nor how to avoid it in the first place. Although
it's not your doing, I'm also wondering if maybe Missing Sync might provide
a way of doing this, like disabling unneeded conduits?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.
-- 
Paul Berkowitz