Re: Help recover from crash

That was the key.  As I said, it has been so long since I've had a real crash (which is why I haven't given the darn Treo up) -- I went into a panic.  
For some reason, BBuddy did NOT restore the preferences on the next sync after the hard reset, so I had to manually restore them and I had forgotten the basic fact that "saved preferences" and "unsaved preferences" are DATABASES - I was trying to restore them as APPLICATIONS, which BBuddy didn't object to, but it wasn't really restoring what I needed. Hit "restore database" and poof! The icons and other settings are back, though my Saved View is not...but I can recreate it.

Yes between them, BackupBuddy (since 1998 or so), PrefDoctor and now Reset Doctor had saved me frequently - I just forgot how.

Whew -- back to normal operations here.

--- In [email protected], "karposh81" <krale-marko-81@...> wrote:
>
> Did you restore the files "saved preferences" and "unsaved preferences"?
> When my Treo crashes and some settings in the OS are lost, i mostly
> restore only these two. Maybe some DateBK6 information is also stored
> there.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "lskohn" <lskohn@> wrote:
> >
> > The good news it has been years since I have had my Treo 650 melt
> down.  The bad news is that it did yesterday, and I had to do a hard
> reset, and simply resyncing did not work...I had to add things manually,
> and in DB6, I've lost my icons, my font/color customizations for
> categories, along with others.
> >
> > It has been stable so long I have forgotten all the old tricks to
> recover DB6, and this forum is now so big that I can't find CESD's
> oft-repeated recovery directions.
> >
> > I have a good backup courtesy of BackupBuddy, and I thought that I had
> restored DateBk6.prc, Datebk6-Resources, Datebk6DB, Icons-DATEBK5,
> DateBk6HelpDB(but I get the instruction to run dbsetup to access
> help)...but the Saved View that had all my preferred settings isn't
> showing up, etc., etc.
> >
> > I had been using ResetDoctor (formerly PrefDoctor) to save other
> preferences, so that file's probably worth retrieving, if I knew what it
> was.
> >
> > So please could someone direct me to a thread with the instructions
> for disaster recovery, or cut and paste 'em here.
> >
> > Thanks. I know I'll have to give up the Treo one day (all those travel
> apps for iPhone and Bberry are like a siren song), but not yet!
> >
>




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