I am now faced with reestablishing the Pal Desktop on my PC. I hardly use my Tungsten E, but I rely daily on the Desktop installed on my PC to maintain contacts & calendar. BUT I had relied on Palm’s location for the data files (v4.x) and it was REALLY buried inside of Win 7 (Users\Admin\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\palmOne) – thankfully my PC supplier copied the C: drive contents to another folder when they worked on my machine. Thankfully my extended warranty covered the drives and labor to reinstall WIn 7. It help me to find my Palm data files after suffering a hard drive failure (RAID 1) that corrupted Win 7 Pro 圆4. This site will likely have saved my butt. The same registry hack worked for my problem, so I’m posting them here, in case it helps others in the same situation… and so I can find it easily if I need it again in future!) Author John Posted on Categories Tech tips Both postings were framed around setting up shared access to Palm Pilot calendars. (Credits: I originally stumbled across this registry hack in a post I can no longer find but I will update this blog if I find it, because they saved my neck. Hotsync and verify that changes show up on both your PC and your Palm!.Restart hotsync, palm desktop, and verify that you see your data in the Palm Desktop application.Start Palm Desktop and confirm that it now automatically opens up the data found in D:\John.In my case, I changed the data value to be “D:\John\PalmPilot”. Robotics\Pilot Desktop\Core\Path”, and change the data value of this to be the location of your existing data. In Regedit, search for the key “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\U.S.Start “Regedit” (by doing Start->Run, enter “regedit” and click “OK”).Shutdown the Palm Desktop application, and close the HotSync task icon in the windows taskbar notification area.Hitting “OK” failed out saying the directory “cannot be used to store your data because it is being used by another user”. Once the installation was complete, I started the Desktop application, went to Tools->Options dialog box, to the “General” tab and tried to change the “Data Directory” to point to my existing “D:\John\PalmPilot” directory. I was concerned that the installer would overwrite my preserved data directory, so I told the installer to use the default user-data directory (ie: put user data under “C:\My Documents and Settings”). The only gotcha was while re-installing the Palm Desktop (v4.2). Tedious, but not a worry because all my data was safe on the other D partition, and I had all the original CDs.įor the most part, that worked perfectly. Recently, I had to re-image the C drive on my laptop, and re-install WinXP, which in turn meant reinstalling all the applications. This allows me to easily migrate from one computer to another, do backups, replace disks, all without worrying if I missed any of my files. All data files go under one separate tree (ie: “D:\John”).All applications go under their default install location (ie: “C:\Program Files”).I always organize my applications separately from my data files.
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