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alexpf519
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: everett wa
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experienced pda users...

any experienced ones who can advice me cuz im replacing my edge with a pro do ya think guys it will be no problem for me to just hotsinc it right away with my new pro. do you think it will respond or i need to beam it first from edge to pro cuz i dont wanna loose any data from my edge to the new pro help plsss.how about the cd that comes with the pro do i still need to install it or how pls help meee
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02-12-2002 07:21 PM

septimus
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Registered: Feb 2001
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Since you have both, it should be fairly easy. If you've already put a hotsync name on the Pro, do a hard reset to clear the data.

1) Hotsync your Pro. when it asks you who's PDA this is, choose your hotsync name from the list.
2) Wait. The desktop has recognized that it's installing to a completely empty PDA and will do its honest best to make a clean reinstall.
3) Go through the Pro and make sure that everything you want got transferred. If anything didn't, either beam it or reinstall it.

Voila.

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02-12-2002 07:26 PM

terrysalmi
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Washburn University in Topeka, KS
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Don't forget to Change Hotsync Settings

From what I have read, and what I have experienced from a hard reset, change the conduit setting on the computer to "desktop overwrites handheld"

I have heard horror stories of people forgetting to do this, and losing everything

Of course, a Backup module could symplify this - pop in the module into the edge, and then put it into the pro and voila.

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02-13-2002 01:31 AM

septimus
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Oh, right, I should have thought of that safeguard. I might suggest doing that (desktop overwrites handheld) but also making a copy of your user directory in a safe place (i.e. copy c:\program files\handspring\yourusernamehere to c:\temp\aiee) before you hotsync.

really, though, with a basic setup you should be ok.

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02-13-2002 02:22 AM

Tonewiz2k
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Registered: Dec 2001
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quote:
Of course, a Backup module could symplify this - pop in the module into the edge, and then put it into the pro and voila.

That is the exact way I upgraded from my Deluxe to a Pro. It even changed the hotsync name on my Pro to the name my Deluxe had. I think I did lose a bit of information when I hotsynced with the desktop though. My Deluxe had broken, so the last backup to the backup module was a couple of weeks old. The information on my desktop was newer, but when I hotsynced the Pro it thought that the old information from the backup module was newer than the information on the desktop. I lost 2 weeks of appointments. If you have both units in your hands, however, you should have no problems, and won't even feel like you are hotsyncing a new unit when you upgrade. Just a note though, the backup module will not be much use with the Pro, the normal backup module only has 8 meg, and the second you go over 8meg of ram on your Pro you will not be able to do full backups anymore. I know Handspring sells a 16meg backup module, but I havn't picked it up, and don't plan to.

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