Should an M505 synch with older (Handspring) software?

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In article <uli_nospam-DFDD4E.09460422102004@news.stanford.edu>,
Uli Wienands <uli_nospam@remove.slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> My Visor DeLuxe broke and I am trying to migrate to an M500, which my
> son bought but is not using. I replaced the Handspring cradle with the
> M500 cradle and set all conduits to "Mac overwrites Handheld" (my usual
> procedure for a restore). However, the Hotsynch would not start.
> Occasionally it crashed the Palm Desktop app. I changed the port
> settings (from Handspring to Palm... whatever), to no avail.
>
> I am using Palm Desktop 2.6.1 (or so) and Mac OS 8.6. The M500 hans been
> synchinng fine for my son (Mac as well, probably OS 9.1). On my Mac,
> synching with the Handspring also usually went well (except when I had
> contact problems).
>
> I tried to hard reset the M500 (keeping the reset held down for a
> minute) but am not sure I actually managed that. Any special trick to
> hard reset these things?
>
> I know my s/w is old, but it has always worked so far so I am not keen
> changing it. The Handspring was Palm Os 3.1.3, the M500 is 4.0. Is that
> an issue?
>
> Help!
>
> Uli

Never mind, turns out that I needed to upgrade to 2.6.3 for the M500.
Everything works now.

Uli