[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Missing Sync crashes and Tiger

[W Yu]

Scott Gruby at sgruby at markspace.com wrote on 6/5/05 6:32 AM:

> There have been a number of reports of crashing with Missing Sync for
> Palm OS (4.0.4 and 4.0.5b1) on Tiger. We review every report that is
> sent to us using the crash report form and have found that a number
> of customers are experiencing similar crashes. However, we have been
> unable to reproduce the issues (I personally have spent several hours
> just trying to crash Missing Sync under Tiger and have been
> unsuccessful). If you experience the issue and have not already
> contacted support, please do so in order for us to track it. In
> addition, if you have some time to assist us, I will make myself
> available via iChat with the screenname msengineer0. Please contact
> me immediately after you crash if the crash you see in the crash
> reporter starts with (the numbers may be different)

Not sure if I am seeing the same crash. But I am getting that old
MissingSync crash out problem as before.

It's one where one would initiate a sync through the Palm cradle button,
MissingSync would boot up and then quickly crash out before any real syncing
activities starts. A second attempt with the sync button typically would fix
the problem. Alternatively, MissingSync would never respond to a hotsync
call from the cradle, requiring a manual startup on the Mac side before it
would link up with the hardware request.

In the early 4.0.x cycle, I was bugged by this problem for quite some time
until an update in the late beta cycle (yes, I went through every single
beta update), miraculously the problem went away. With 4.0.5b1, the problem
have miraculously reappeared.  :(
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