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-- Mac User - sync weirdness & 1st Hard Reset I guess (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/showthread.php?threadid=2738)

So having gone to bed flush with the success of a successful - or so i thought -- sync up, and a burgeoning address book, and a spiffy calendar blooming onthe desktop. I woke up to
a fatal error, the next morning.

Could it have been because I had more than 15 categories "somewhere" and that one of those categories had a name with more than 15 letters? as the sync log revealed? Who knows?

Tried the soft reset, but the machine just kept on blinking "Palm Computing Platform" for a long time. Patience did not have any rewards here.

Went into a meeting and by the time I was out, the thing was just flashing lines down the screen. Another soft reset attempt left it dead to the world. And I guess the batteries went from 50% to 0% in that time.

Back home I plugged a few new batteries in and found a revived but, however, completely amnesiac Vdx. good thing we have a backup of the data on the desktop, eh?

last nite's sync-up had reinitiated the serial port monitor conflict/freeze/crash syndrome. This time I unchecked the "local setup" box in "Hotsync manager". (leaving only the "USB setup" option checked). THe sync worked and we seem to be back in business.

Make sure that you double your memory on Hot Sync Manager and Conduit Manager. That solved a lot of problems for me including random loss of data.