[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Categories lost after restore from backup

[Matthew Wyneken]

I purchased MS 5 shortly after it was released and had a bunch of  
problems. I lost a LOT of time recovering lost data. For a while I  
kept up with the bug fixes and updates but at one point I decided  
just to wait until the product seems to be bug-free before I lose any  
more time recovering data. Since that time I have not been using MS 5  
to sync but just to backup my Palm.

Judging by the discussion on this list, MS 5 seems to be mostly  
bugless so the time seems to have come for me to download the latest  
version and risk trying to sync again.

Before I do that, though, there is one question I hope to find an  
answer to. One reason I lost so much time when I had to recover lost  
data was that restoring from backup always left me with all the items  
in my task list, calendar and address book in the "Unfiled" category.  
That means I had to painstakingly re-assign my categories to every  
item. That can take a lot of time, let me tell you!

I was wondering if anyone knows why all the category assignments get  
lost? Does this happen to anyone else? I can't imagine that's a bug  
with MS. Is that a feature of PalmOS 5 (I'm using a Zire 72)? It  
never happened to me on my old M515 under PalmOS 4.

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Matthew Wyneken