Author: Chris Carson
Date: 12:39:39 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 15:01:14, Roy Eassa wrote: > >My iPAQ would not power on today (even though it had a full charge) so I did a >soft reset. All the data and programs that I had on the unit were gone. No >problem, I thought, I'll just do a "sync" and, like the Palm, that will restore >everything (after all, I sync the thing every day). > >Wait, you mean doing a backup is a SEPARATE task from doing the normal daily >sync? OOPS! I guess I was so accustomed to the automatic backup (and restore) >feature of the Palm that I forgot that with the iPAQ you must manually do a >backup to the PC. (Or am I mistaken about this?) > >Anyway, the backup.stg file on my PC is from October, so I'm guessing that's >when I last did a backup. My mistake! > >Now, is there any way for me to restore the iPAQ to its status from my last sync >(i.e., yesterday)? > >(Also, what have my daily syncs been doing for me? Something seems to be >happening each time I add an app to the iPAQ, so there must be some sort of >backup, right?) If you have been sync with Outlook, then your contacts, appointments, tasks, e-mail should all be on outlook. Use the "options" and have the PC override the IPAQ. If you have been using word, excel, access, powerpoint, then these files can also be sync back from the PC to the IPAQ. Everything must be on the PC and then sync'ed back. Your backup must be done on a regular basis, so it sounds like the october backup is the latest. Sorry about that. Your programs will need to be re-installed on the IPAQ. Hope this helps.
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