Re: Desktop sync trouble

I suspect you are hitting the palm limit of 4 kilobytes size for memos.

Shadowplan uses the palm memo feature to store notes, or an API to the
memo app?

You will need to reduce the size of the affect notes and todos. Maybe
push them into sub todos.

--- In [email protected], "s_fenton8" <bobodod@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> I recently dragged out and dusted off my copy of Shadow Plan with the
> intention of migrating over my Memos and ToDo items.  Well, I've run
> into a couple issues.  I looked around for a bug tracker like
> sourceforge.net/tracker2 or bugs.launchpad.net but couldn't find one.
>  (Maybe bug tracking sites are just for open source software, I don't
> know.)
> 
> So what's going on is that I installed the Windows Desktop version on
> XP SP3 and the handheld version on my Treo 650.  I imported all my
> ToDos and cleaned them up a bit, then imported a couple Memos.  I also
> installed the ShadP-ShadowTips.pdb to take a look at it sometime in
> the future.
> 
> Soon after synchronizing and attempting to edit one of the imported
> Memos, I discovered a problem in the Desktop:  I opened the Memo and
> got an error something to the effect of "line was too long" (sorry I
> didn't write down the error word for word, but it mentioned a
> limitation in the handheld version for item title lengths) at which
> point an item title was truncated.  It didn't tell me what item, so I
> compared the lengthy list with the one in Shadow Plan on the handheld.
>  I found the item on the handheld version to be fully intact which
> said to me that the handheld limitation existed no longer and the
> Desktop software hadn't been updated to reflect that.
> 
> So, I decided to junk using the Desktop until I could get on here or a
> bug tracker and report the issue.  In the meantime, I would use the
> Desktop as a backup.  Well, wouldn't you know, when I went into
> Hotsync | Custom... to configure the Shadow conduit to "Copy handheld
> file over desktop" I forgot to mark "Set as default".  Doh!
> 
> I didn't notice until it was too late, of course, so when I sync'd the
> second time after that, something strange happened that may or may not
> be related to what I've described so far.  The files didn't
> synchronize, as was the default setting.  The Memo I'd imported and
> had these problems with just disappeared from the handheld altogether,
> along with ShadowTips.  Upon opening the Desktop, I found them both
> still there.  I set the conduit to Synchronize & "Keep items from both
> sides" but cannot get my Memo back on the handheld.  It continues to
> be available in the Desktop.
> 
> I did some searching here for someone else with a similar issue, but
> without a better set of keywords to search for than "pdb", "xml",
> "desktop", "handheld", "sync", etc., I got too many results.  Sorry
> for the lengthy post and thanks for listening.
> 
> 
> Sean
>