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07/27/2010, 01:38 AM
#17
Well, thanks to crazedgamer and flintstone for recovering my palmOS files using their crazy idea. You deserved the reward--that was a lot of hours. Unfortunately, we were all too sleepy this morning at 3 to realize that recovering the files was apparently only the beginning.
I was told by tech support that I could just copy and paste the files into the installer folder of webOS. Noh, don't work. So tonight I'm starting day 4 unable to see/access/utilize/manage the data I need. I tried calling Motion Apps to find out what needs to be done with my pdb files to make them populate the classic app I bought from them. Imagine my surprise when I found they close at 4p and they don't have online tech support.
The deadline for my project came and went. I simply had to make do with what paper documentation I could find, punt and submit. Ugly. I'd like to know what the hell the designers of this thing were thinking to not have a plug and play backup of anything and everything on the device? I'm pretty freaking angry right now.
Over the years I've had devices stolen, run over, lost, and even permanently brick for no apparent reason, and I've never had to stress like this. Before the false security of this cloud thing, I would always plug my devices in to charge and do a mirror backup almost every night, alternating flash card backups at home and in my car. When something happened to my device I'd just buy a new one on the way to work or whatever, slide in one of my two backup cards, and literally within 5 or 6 minutes I'd have a totally working replacement without skipping a beat.
The cloud sounded great until this. Now I'm discovering the illogical, reverse-meanings of the palm world: Universal search that isn't, backup that doesn't, installation folders that don't, an sms and call history that are history if you change devices, a calendar that ain't (try opening and reading from your PRE the notes you wrote into a google calendar entry 4 months ago: not there!), contacts that allow virtually unlimited note taking--as long as you never have to search for any notes you've written (because 'universal search' can't search in notes), uh, need I go on?
I really didn't mean to turn this into a rant, but, I'm angry and could actually lose a job over this. Since most everyone at work has heard about what happened, it makes Palm look really bad because several hundred people now get to brag to each other about how easily their device backs up all their stuff.
Hopefully MA has an answer tomorrow or I may end up checking into some new palmOS emulator that supposedly came out last month for the iPhone.
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