m105 problems after HotSync

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After doing a Hot Sync, the basic "four-banger" calculator on my Palm
m105 no longer works.

When I tap on the calculator icon, I get the following error message:

Launch error
The application cannot be launced because it is missing localization
information

When I click on the "OK" button on the error screen, I'm taken to the
"General" screen of the "Preferences" program. Everything *seems*
normal there. (The only thing that seems applicable is the "Numbers"
format specifier - I'm using "1,000.00".

In addition, I've discovered that selecting the "Buttons" screen of
the "Preferences" program causes a "Fatal Alert - Fatal Exception". I
have to do a soft reset to clear this.

Finally, the HotSync log says:
System synchronization failed
Protocol Error: Handheld file could not be opened. (4004)

If I do a hard reset, the basic calculator and "Buttons" screen work,
but as soon as I do a HotSync, the problems reappear.

I'm guessing that the "System synchronization failed" error is the
key, but I don't know what to do about it.

Any ideas?

Bob Pownall

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Stan Gosnell wrote:
> Go into your backup folder and delete the saved preferences file. Then
> hotsync, and everything should work. Any registration info for programs
> you've registered will likely be lost, so make sure you have that information
> somewhere before you do this.

Thanks for the help here, and on my other problem as well!

I do weekly backups to an external hard drive, so if this doesn't work,
I'll probably just restore the entire Backup folder from last week's
backup, and try again.

Bob Pownall

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Bob Pownall <repownall@netscape.net> wrote in
news:40f75262$0$203$75868355@news.frii.net:

>
> Any further ideas? Or is it time to go get last week's backup?

That's probably the easiest. Something else in the backup is messing things
up, and it may not be worth the time required to find it. You would have to
keep doing hotsyncs after deleting one file.

Then get a backup program and back up to your SD card every day, religiously.
I use BackupMan, and have it do a backup every morning while I'm asleep. I
keep 4 previous backups, just in case. You can set that for any number
between 0 and the number that will fit on your card. You can also keep as
many manual backups as you have space for. There are also other backup
programs available. Get whichever works best for you, but you're grossly
negligent if you don't get something. The backup to a separate hard drive is
also good insurance, and I keep a backup of the SD card on my PC, and about
once a week I back it up to a rewritable CDR. No matter how many backups you
have, it will eventually be one too few. ;-)

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Regards,

Stan

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Stan Gosnell wrote:
<Summary: Yep, he feels it's time to go get last week's backup, and that
I should backup to a SD card every day>

As another poster pointed out, the m105 has only the serial port, so no
SD cards.

I went and got the Calculator.PRC,Calculator_enUS.PRC and
Saved_Preferences.PRC files from last week's backup (made before I
started having problems), added them to the Quick Install list, and did
a HotSync.

I still have the same problems.

Do I need to get different files? (All the above, plus ???, Not the
above, instead get ???)

I need to try restoring one file at a time, until I hit the right one?

Help!

Bob Pownall

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Bob Pownall <repownall@netscape.net> wrote in news:40fc4a67$0$202$75868355
@news.frii.net:

> Stan Gosnell wrote:
><Summary: Yep, he feels it's time to go get last week's backup, and that
> I should backup to a SD card every day>
>
> As another poster pointed out, the m105 has only the serial port, so no
> SD cards.

Yes, I forgot we were talking about an M105.

> I went and got the Calculator.PRC,Calculator_enUS.PRC and
> Saved_Preferences.PRC files from last week's backup (made before I
> started having problems), added them to the Quick Install list, and did
> a HotSync.
>
> I still have the same problems.

I would do a hard reset and try restoring that entire backup. Just because
it stalls while displaying one app doesn't mean that's the bad app. It
very well could be the app just before that one that caused the problem.
Try restoring, completely, the last backup you have when you know the Palm
was working correctly. You may have a physical problem with the device,
not just a bad file, but that's difficult if not impossible to diagnose
from a newsgroup.

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Regards,

Stan