Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:43:17 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 15:39:39, Chris Carson wrote: >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. Thanks Chris. That's what I was afraid of. Luckily, I don't use the iPAQ for contacts and the like (I use my Sony Clie for that). But I have installed numerous apps and customized the iPAQ, plus stored a bunch of chess games (pgn files). I wrongly assumed that the syncing would be backing that sort of thing up like it does on the Palm. I've certainly learned my lesson! Thanks again!
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