[missing-sync-palmos-talk] attempt to insert nil value

[Blaine Wilson]

Thank you for the update!

Blaine


On Aug 16, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Paul List Hess wrote:

> Status update --- the short story is everything seems better for  
> the moment (fingers crossed)
>
> I set out to follow Peter's procedure.
>
> In step 3 my Reset Sync History was greyed out.  Thanks to everyone  
> for advice, rebooting and then waiting plenty of time for all  
> background syncing to complete solved that problem.
>
> Then before step 4 I was interrupted by phone calls and business  
> etc and it started syncing again, blowing my "reset sync history".
>
> So I decided to resync the PDA and make backups again to go back to  
> step 1.  It took forever.  Then there were hundreds of conflicts it  
> wanted me to resolve.  I cycled through resyncing with the PDA,  
> resolving conflicts (always in favor or the Address Book), etc  
> until it reached a stable state.
>
> I'm now in that stable state.  My address book has about 1800  
> contacts instead of the 900 or so form before.  But they're not  
> doubled.  They are just apparently all the ones that I came within  
> inches of losing that were only existing for a while on my PDA.   
> Best of all I am no longer getting the nil value error message/
>
> I'll back everything up and just start using it and hope that the  
> crisis is resolved.  The size of my backup file is 6MB instead of  
> 1.1MB.  I'm wondering if another shoe will drop and massive  
> duplication will start to occur.  If so, I can probably handle that  
> on the Treo side using UnDupe and then sync back to the laptop.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed advice and support!
>
> At 9:35 PM -0500 8/15/06, Peter Zavaletta wrote: