Thanks Re: [missing-sync-palmos-talk] Missing Sync creates a new user folder

[Gene Wixson]

Thank you. This solved my problem. You cannot believe how frustrating 
this was to me and I never even considered the "/" as the root of my 
problem. You guys are great!

At 2:02 PM -0800 2/14/06, you wrote:


>On Feb 14, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Gene Wixson wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I have been trying for a week to get Documents to Go (DTG) to work 
>>with Missing Sync. I have tried hard resets, reinstalls of 
>>everything, etc. I even upgraded to Beta of 5.1. But it seems like 
>>this is the heart of the problem. When I do anything in Missing 
>>Sync, it creates a new user folder that DTG doesn't know how to 
>>reference. My handheld and user folder name is <Wixson's T/X>. 
>>However, when I click on the Handhelds menu in Missing Sync and 
>>select this name (the only handheld I have setup), a new folder is 
>>created in ~Documents/Palm/Users by the name of <Wixson's T\2FX>. 
>>In DTG I have selected my user name <Wixson's T/X> but it will not 
>>synchronize. I suspect this is because of the mystery User file 
>>that Missing Sync is creating. Can anyone offer me insight on why 
>>this is? or a possible solution? Thanks.
>>
>
>Try renaming your handheld and don't use a "/". Since the / is 
>reserved in the Mac OS world, we encode it. Documents To Go should 
>ask Missing Sync for the folder name where we'd return the encoded 
>folder name, but may not.
>
>--
>Scott Gruby
>Lead Engineer
>Mark/Space, Inc.
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