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my palm crashed at some point a few months back (the oddball crash that happens when you insert a card). only this time, the recovery was incomplete. but to make matters worse, when i synced up again to try to get the rest of the files back on, not everything showed up.
i kinda stopped using it for fear that what was missing was permanently gone.
i did nothing for months.
finally, i decided to look at the laptop where i synced up.
tipsheet, that tip calculator i wrote and was so proud of? gone.
everything connected with my "dev" category was wiped from the backups when i synced up the second time. i've lost tipsheet (my tip calculator), source codes binaries, the whole damn thing. hell, the whole C IDE and editor are gone (but those are recoverable by downloading). and cyd doesn't have a copy either for some oddball reason, so it really is gone. i'm going to have to rewrite the whole damn thing from scratch and try to remember how the hell i did it -- i was using it as a cut-n-paste source for other programs at least for library code, and they're all gone too -- not a single piece of my dev environment survived. not even something as insipidly stupid as my average calculator i wrote during the day, oktoberfest saturday, to use at the scotch tasting that night survived. nothing. even the icon is gone.
i've even ran an undelete scan on the backup and archive directories of the laptop and they're not there either.
well, there is now nothing holding me to this particular palm. its on warrenty so i'm going to exchange it for the 72. much as i prefer the 71, i can't use this one anymore both for the bad feelings and 'cause due to some glich i can't sync it up through the cradle anymore; i've had to sync via infrared for over a year now.
and there's nothing holding me to this old win98 laptop i've had for 7 years. its a slow toshiba, only 32 meg memory and 4 gig disk. not really much use for anything. can't even put modern linuxes on it 'cause they need more memory that that. scratch that -- there is something i've been using this laptop for and i suppose i can just dedicate it to that purpose. i've had nTrack studio on here for years, and its what i've used to capture the audio-tracks of video and dvd concerts to upload to the linux box, eventually to burn cds and rip mp3s.
i still need to figure out how to get it to recognize my home network so i can copy the whole damn disk over to the new XP box and sort through the data later.
i kinda stopped using it for fear that what was missing was permanently gone.
i did nothing for months.
finally, i decided to look at the laptop where i synced up.
tipsheet, that tip calculator i wrote and was so proud of? gone.
everything connected with my "dev" category was wiped from the backups when i synced up the second time. i've lost tipsheet (my tip calculator), source codes binaries, the whole damn thing. hell, the whole C IDE and editor are gone (but those are recoverable by downloading). and cyd doesn't have a copy either for some oddball reason, so it really is gone. i'm going to have to rewrite the whole damn thing from scratch and try to remember how the hell i did it -- i was using it as a cut-n-paste source for other programs at least for library code, and they're all gone too -- not a single piece of my dev environment survived. not even something as insipidly stupid as my average calculator i wrote during the day, oktoberfest saturday, to use at the scotch tasting that night survived. nothing. even the icon is gone.
i've even ran an undelete scan on the backup and archive directories of the laptop and they're not there either.
well, there is now nothing holding me to this particular palm. its on warrenty so i'm going to exchange it for the 72. much as i prefer the 71, i can't use this one anymore both for the bad feelings and 'cause due to some glich i can't sync it up through the cradle anymore; i've had to sync via infrared for over a year now.
and there's nothing holding me to this old win98 laptop i've had for 7 years. its a slow toshiba, only 32 meg memory and 4 gig disk. not really much use for anything. can't even put modern linuxes on it 'cause they need more memory that that. scratch that -- there is something i've been using this laptop for and i suppose i can just dedicate it to that purpose. i've had nTrack studio on here for years, and its what i've used to capture the audio-tracks of video and dvd concerts to upload to the linux box, eventually to burn cds and rip mp3s.
i still need to figure out how to get it to recognize my home network so i can copy the whole damn disk over to the new XP box and sort through the data later.
