I've been thinking about the data transfer, and there's a wrinkle I haven't seen discussed.

Suppose you export your contacts and calendar to Google before launch (I have already, and it seems a lot of other folks either have or are about to). On launch day, you bring your Pre home, set up your profile and gmail account. Things Happen(tm) and your contacts and appointments all appear on your Pre via the magic of Synergy.

Now, you want to get your memos and tasks off your Treo onto the Pre. So you run the 1-time data transfer utility. Which transfers your memos...and your contacts and calendar appointments. So now you have duplicates of all your contact data and calendar entries. Seems messy, even if Synergy links the duplicates together. And if Google is your primary contacts source, the duplicates will try to sync back up there.

So anyway, given that my canonical contact and calendar data is already in the cloud, I'm thinking of removing my contacts.pdb and calendar.pdb from my Palm directory before doing the data transfer. Does that make sense to anyone else, or am I being overly cautious?

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