Palm Died

[noahgibbs]

My Palm's battery died, recently and suddenly. It didn't stay dead, but it *did* lose all my data. The regular backups that I did to my old work laptop at my previous job (the one where the company got sold) aren't going to do me any good. I *might* have a much older backup if I can find it, but no promises. I never managed to figure out what contortions are required to back up my old, unsupported Palm on a Mac laptop.

So I appear to have just lost all my phone numbers and addresses for people, all my upcoming and past appointments, and generally everything I keep in my Palm. We have a paper calendar and a lot of my e-mail addresses are in Yahoo mail, but that's it...

If there's something we've promised to show up for, you might want to email us a reminder. The girl tended to use me (and my associated Palm) as a way of keeping track of what we needed to do...

Comments

[tshuma]

Stuff in mail. Hoping to see you next weekend for our BBQ.

[griffjon.livejournal.com]

This begs the question, why is calendaring and contact syncing such a difficult problem? I for a while attempted to keep my palm m100, cell, and an a "master" excel file all synced and it was ridiculously difficult.

[msde.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a way to sell your soul to google and sync with them?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

It's not, if you write your own software (or configure the right weird, archaic stuff) and have a single master location and sync all other stuff to it.

Otherwise it's very hard to tell what modifications are "right" and figure out how to merge them. Merging is a *very* difficult problem because it can require significant intelligence, depending on what is being merged and how.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Maybe? I'm pretty sure that Google won't solve the Palm-to-Mac step, though.