Praise Be!

[andrewducker]

Last night i went to use my Palm T2 and discovered it had reset itself.

Not "reset to the login screen" but "reset to no data on there and just the original applications".

This was a semi-tragedy, but not the end of the world - i had backups of all the dates and to-do's from it, as well as the documents on it.  The only problem was going to be reinstalling 10 different apps and setting them up the way i liked them again.

So io grabbed the latest version of Datebk5 and Life Balance and set them to install.  Lo and behold, up came the words "reinstalling databases from backups" and 5 minutes later all of my apps were back on there - I couldn't even tell they'd been off.

When computers work, they rock!

Comments

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

I recon this with most technology at the moment, they can do lots of cool, stuff, but the linking of it all together is missing..

sounds like you wee reset shows that the coming together bit is starting to happen too..

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

My feeling is anything that needs to be plugged in to recharge should backup itself at that point into the re-charger. Users wouldn't even have to think about the process then, until things went wrong. (Just an interim measure until everything's backed-up wirelessly in real-time...)

[andrewducker]

In this case, the recharger is the USB cable that's also the synchronisation device...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

It synchronised to empty, or was the way you got things back together again so easily?

[andrewducker]

It went to empty while sitting about, unused and unconnected.

It synchronised back to full the next time I plugged it in and pressed the synch button.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Ah - very nice.

[douglasbryant.livejournal.com]

I had the same trouble with mine when the batteries were dead. Also a palm t.