Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

Finally switching to OSX...any 'gotchas' with syncing?

I've been using OSX for 6 months or so now. I haven't been using my visor a whole lot, though and have just be booting into OS9 once a month to synch.

Well, I'm getting tired of booting into OS9 and I can't seem to sync with classic mode, so I'm finally going to bite the bullet and go with Palm Desktop for OSX.

So...what conduits will no longer work? I know Avantgo is gone...so I'll be switching to IsiloX. The only other major conduit I use is CryptInfo, which just saves my database to the palm directory (it doesn't actually sync with any software). Do I have to worry about any conduits like that, or do I need to double-check that they are OSX friendly first?

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-David Byrne

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

I read somewhere that the OS X desktop cannot read 9's files, so you may have to manually plop some over. It also erases previous versions in the installer, so back the entire thing up first. You also need to delete the update files in the update folder that gets installed if you have a Visor. There is a list of OS X conduits here.

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

So, by looking at that list, it appears that NO conduits from OS9 work in OSX, correct? So I need to start over?

Ugh.

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-David Byrne

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

Yeah, all the conduits need to be replaced, and a lot of companies haven't carbonized their stuff yet, it was a pain re-doing all the conduits, etc, but it didn't take too long to set all of that stuff up.