Hotsunc!
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Fortunately, I got better.
I don’t know about you, not being psychic; I’m one of those people for whom a computer problem - especially with a device or feature I use every damn day - gripes me like something stuck in my teeth. I just can’t concentrate on anything else until I’ve dealt with it.
My Palm TX suddenly and for no known reason quit being able to Hotsync with my notebook PC. That basically means they can’t talk to each other. That means no transcribing notes I’ve taken on the PDA into Word documents, and no new e-books added to the Pilot.
This annoying inability manifested over the weekend. I sucked it up and lived with it for a few days. Then tonight I was overcome and just had to fix it.
Which turned out to be more involved than I thought. It’s intrinsically boring - it wasn’t fun to do; how would it be fun to read about? - so we’ll jump to the fact that finally, after completely uninstalling the Palm Desktop software from the PC and reinstalling it, the damned machines started talking to each other again.
One relief was that I didn’t even have to copy my data files back over from the back-up I’d made, following thoughtful and useful advice from Palm’s website.
So we seem to be good, and going again. Whew.
Now if I could just find a good handwriting recognition program to replace that annoying Graffiti 2.0…