Re: Lost Date Book
Brian A. Fliege (eaig169@ea.oac.uci.edu)
Tue, 08 Aug 1995 02:17:04 -0700
>Yesterday, I was moving all my documents from my B: drive (Zoomer) to my
>PCMCIA card in the path c:\geoworks\document so I could install Graffiti.
> When I next tried to start up Date Book, it gave some kind of error
>message (I don't remember what). I tried again and it didn't find my
>appointments. I tried again and everything was there. I noticed that the
>Zoomer had written a Date Book file to my b:drive. Everything worked
>normally until today when I copied that Date Book file from my b:drive to my
>PCMCIA card, then deleted the Date Book file from my b:drive. THEN I did my
>backup routine to my PC using Palm Connect. When I tried Date Book, it was
>blank. Where did it go??? Why did it write a new file to my b:drive???
> All my other applications seem to work well with my the documents on
>c:drive. Is Date Book a special case, or am I flirting with disaster by
>putting all my documents on c:drive?
Let me get your order of events correct in my head first, okay? As
I see it, things went like this:
1. Moved B:\geoworks\document into C:\geoworks\document
2. Zoomer was confused about the location/existance of the Date Book
data file, so at some point in time created a new one in B:\geoworks\document
3. Copied B:\geoworks\document\Date Book to
c:\geoworks\document\Date Book
4. Backed up
It looks like the problem is in steps 2 and 3. The Zoomer had intermittent
problems finding your Date Book file, so created a new one. Were you
possibly pulling out and replacing the PCMCIA card a lot? This could
confuse the Zoomer (it takes many seconds for the Zoomer to recognize the
card is there and be able to access the parallel directory structure). It
might not see your "real" Date Book file, or it might access it, then not be
able to save it properly after the card is pulled out. I do not know the
exact source of the problem, though, without more detail.
Just an interesting aside: Myself and others have run into problems
with the Zoomer completely losing a file during step #1, above.
Copying/moving a file into its "shadowed" directory on the C: drive
sometimes makes the Zoomer completely wipe out the file being copied. The
best (only) way I have seen around this is to copy into an intermediate
directory first (e.g. copy from the B: document directory to the C: root
directory, then there to the C: document directory). It is a bit of a pain,
but one I can endure, if I do not want to risk zapping my address and note
books.
Brian