Re: Need help understanding desktop/handheld relationship

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Mark Einersen wrote:

# 1. Am I correct that files on my memory card have NO ASSOCIATION
# whatsoever with what is backed up on and/or synced with the desktop?

	More-or-less correct; there was a time when I had planned to have 
the desktop do some really tricky things so you could edit files on the 
card after hotsync, but in the end.. devices started to get a lot of RAM, 
Palm made the tricky stuff really buggy to pull off, and I added Open Raw 
which would let you edit the card-side files directly (via a USB flash 
reader say, or mounting the files via the Palm evice as a card reader, 
etc.)

	So to sync it is easiest to keep files in RAM.

# 3. On the DT my visual list of outlines shows 8 outlines, including a
# new one I created a couple weeks ago that appears to have been synced
# properly onto my HH. Yet when I choose "Open..." I see a list of 10
# outlines (8 are the same as what I see on the DT UI, plus two others
# that I have previously used). Why?

	Could check the Exprt -> Console option and read through (its 
cryptic) to see where it is looking.. essentially, the left-side index 
shows from one directory the files it could find; the Open could be 
looking in another place (it tries to remember the last palced you've 
opened a file, and you could have opened somewhere else).

	The DT can open files anyplace on your computer, the trick is what 
it is showing in the index and File -> Open.

# 4. I have also created a "test" outline on the HH and upon sync it is
# not visible in EITHER of the aforementioned list of files. However, 
# when I click on the last outline listed on the DT UI, it opens the
# "test" list--although it is an old outline with a totally different
# name!! What the heck?

	Simialr to (3). Theres probably a mixup of where it is seeing. 
(Which could also be complicated by some of Vista's odd behaviours, if 
you're using that OS.)

# 5. When on choose "Open raw..." all I see are 3 files, all three of
# which are presently in internal memory on the HH (other files with
# corresponding names on the DT are presently on my HH memory card).
# When/why would I want to open/modify on the DT a "raw" file (PDB) vs.
# a "normal" file (XML)?

	Open Raw is provided for those who need it, but it is generally 
not needed much for Windows users. (It is mostly used by Mac and Linux 
users, or Windows folks who need to recover based on a pdb file, or who 
want to edit on an SD card, or other crazy tricks :) Generally the XML 
file is the way to go, but as always.. I like to provide tools so people 
can work how they see fit.

		jeff

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