PalmHotsync

1 Palm Hotsync

1.1 Hotsync Manager does not like disk partitions

Hotsync Manager on Palm Desktop 4 is a carbonized application that cannot handle multiple disk partitions. You can neither hotsync nor edit the conduit settings unless the conduits and the user data are on the same disk partition. The unfriendly error message complains "You do not have sufficient permissions. See your administrator."

If you like to keep user data on a separate partition (sysadmin 101 stuff), you can still fool the Hotsync Manager as follows:

  1. Create a folder /Users/Palm that is on the partition holding the Mac OS X System (more likely, /Users/Palm should be on the partition holding "/Library/Application Support/Hotsync Manager/").
  2. Copy the contents of ~/Documents/Palm to /Users/Palm. Use the finder, just to be on the safe side. The tilde (~) represents your home folder.
  3. Replace the folder ~/Documents/Palm with a link to /Users/Palm. Using a Terminal window, type: cd ~/Documents ; rm -r Palm ; ln -s /Users/Palm Palm
  4. And Hotsync finally worked!

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