RE: Two PDA's on one computer

This question was syncing two palms on
one computer.
How about syncing one palm on multiple
computers?
Ever since I obtained by T5 Tungsten, I
have had problems syncing on my home
desktop, office desktop, and my travel
laptop.
My Palm is the one constant that keeps
my schedule and contacts together on the
various computers.

Tim
J. Timothy Deppe, M.D., F.C.C.P.
Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
Johnson Memorial Hospital
Franklin, IN 46131
[email protected]

 
Beware of the young doctor and the old
barber. 
Benjamin Franklin

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Gareth Gammon
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 5:24
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tungsten_T] Two PDA's on
one computer

Yes it is, but it is tricky and you have
to keep your
wits about you when you do it.

The secret lies in changing the name of
the user
folder each time you hotsync with a
different device.
For example, I currently have a Sony
Clie TJ37 and a
Palm M515 both synched to the same
username. 

You can start one pda by adding the
files and software
you want and hotsync it with the
username of your
choice. 

Go the the Palm folder and find the
folder marked with
your username. For example, my username
is Gareth
Gammon. Palm created a folder called
Gammong. This
folder contains all the data from the
one pda I
hotsynched. RENAME THIS FOLDER. As I
have a Sony Clie
TJ37 I name this folder GammongClie37. 

Do a hard reset on the second handheld
so it has no
username and hotsync. The Palm Desktop
will detect
that the new pda has no username and
will ask you to
pick one. Choose the same username and
hotsync.
Because you have renamed the first
folder something
else, The desktop will think the data
has been lost
and will set up a new folder with a new
set of data
eg. Address book, calender, to do etc
but of course
they will be empty. Now you can add the
software you
want, using the same username to
activate it. Each
time you hotsync the backup folder will
be filled with
the new programs and files.

Moving address book and calendar data
from the first
handheld to the second is also possible.

If you want to go back to hosync changes
to the first
hand held, you MUST go back to the Palm
folder, change
the current username folder to something
else, in my
case I call it GammongM15, rename the
first folder
folder back to what it was originally,
eg GammonClie37
back to Gammong, and then hotsync.

This renaming of folders each time you
change devices
is extremely important and you must be
careful that
you don't mix up the two folders. This
is because, in
my case, there are files that work only
on the Clie
and if they were to get onto the M515 by
accident
could cause all kinds of problems. Also
my Clie uses
OS5.2 and the M515 is OS4.1. This is not
always a
problem, but best to keep the pda OS's
separate. The
Clie uses it's own hi-res format and the
M515 is low
res. Software settings for one device
may not work
properly on the other and some of my
software is for
OS5 ONLY and vice versa.

It is a lot of work and a little risky
just to use the
same username, but it is possible if you
are careful.

If you mess up, just do a hard reset and
re-build the
pda from scratch. Not a bad idea to do
this every once
in a while anyway as there are always
bits and pieces
of files left over that are no longer
needed that just
use up your RAM without doing anything. 

Unless you are comfortable getting in
the file
structures in the Palm folders you might
want to give
this a miss!

Hope this is helps some.

Gareth

--- Mark Haydock
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Changing the direction of this topic
slightly.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience of
syncing two palms
> to one username, is it
> possible to keep two palms
synchronised like this?
> 
> Cheers
> Mark
> 
> 
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