I'm still using a Palm Vx. I gave up on Desktop/Hotsync support a long time ago; I just use a MemSafe for backup (it's a little flash-memory based device that plugs into the connector on the Vx). I have a new Vx I bought off eBay, and I'd like torestore the contents of my MemSafe to it. But it doesn't have the app. So I need to do a one-time HotSync that installs the app (it puts it into flash memory on the Vx).
Any thoughts about how to do this ? I have the install CD for Palm Desktop. I guess I just need to get ahold of a Windows machine that's equally ancient (I believe it has to be 32-bit machine running nothing newer than Windows Vista or XP. If I couldfind one, it'd probably be cheap :-)
Any other suggestions (besides joining the 21st Century and using my smartphone for this stuff) ?
Is your old Palm Vx still working? And is the MemSafe program
installed on the old Palm Vx? If the answer is yes for both questions,
then you could try to beam the MemSafe program by IR from one Palm Vx
to the other.
"All" apps. If I try to re-beam it though. it says MemFlashDB.ipro is already there (asks do I want to replace it ?) So evidently something got beamed onto the new Vx, but I'm not able to access it at all.Is your old Palm Vx still working? And is the MemSafe program
installed on the old Palm Vx? If the answer is yes for both questions,
then you could try to beam the MemSafe program by IR from one Palm Vx
to the other.
Arggh ... well I tried this. It beamed M'Safe app to the new Vx, and it seemed to accept it, and appeared to put it into the "Unfiled" category of app, since it went to that screen (in the app menu). But there's nothing listed there, or when I select
If I look at the old Vx (that already has M'Safe), I see there are actually two versions of M'Safe. I believe one is the "regular" app, and one is one they came out with later than gets installed onto the flash memory in the Palm (so that if you haveto do a hard reset, there's still a version of M'Safe there that you can use to restore from a MemSafe device). I'm not sure which is which. But the other one is "locked", and it won't allow me to beam it at all.
So I'm kinda stuck. I need to figure out some way to be able to access the one I was able to beam over, or how to beam over the locked one. I do also have access to the M'Safe apps (on my computer and the disk that came with the device), so maybe Ihave to go the route of the cellphone with IR capability. Might be easier to find an old PC though.
I don't know if you have any other ideas, but thanks for the suggestion anyhow, Heinz.
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