Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Noo Yawk
Posts: 13

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.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 1

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.