Re: Problem encountered with SyncCM

[Robert Terzi <rct@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was suspicious that I was loosing items (appointments,
memos, ToDo's, etc.)

I tracked some of the problem down to the PC desktop app.
Avoiding using the PC desktop helped get rid of the
problems.  A large part of the problem turned out to be the
combination of a bug/misfeature in the desktop app, Windoze
use of the (godawful) click-to-type mode, and my fumbling
with Windoze.

If you type a Ctrl-X, while the PC dekstop app has focus,
it silently deletes what ever item was highlighted.
It didn't make any backup at all.  I believe this is
fixed in the 3.0 desktop.  It's still silent, but 
it does save the deleted item in the archives.

If you use emacs on the PC, either locally or via some X
emulator, it's very easy to type ctrl-x without realizing it.
What would often happen to me is I would notice that emacs
had a buffer that I hadn't saved, then I'd move the mouse
(without clicking) type Ctrl-X, Ctrl-S.  The desktop
would silently cut the current item and then do a "save".
When emacs didn't react, I'd click in the emacs window
and type ctrl-X, ctrl-s again.

--Robert

Ron Marshall - Sun Toronto SE wrote:
> 
> I have noticed some occurrences of this and had written it off as my
> fumble fingers and inexperience using dtcm.  I have found that one thing
> I must do a lot is press the "Today" button before entering my
> appointments.  Even when you press today in dtcm an open appointment
> editor window does not change it's date to match the dtcm window.
> 
> I will watch to see if there are any lost appointments, but I know that
> some can be attributed to "user error".
> 
> Regards,
> Ron
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> Larry W. Virden wrote:
> >
> > I have been using a Palm II with 2 meg upgrade and PalmOS 3.0.2 now for
> > about 5-6 weeks.  I am syncing against Solaris 2.6 CDE dtcm calendar manager.
> >
> > Over the past few weeks I've been caught unawares by a few meetings which
> > I was supposed to have attended but missed.  As I look back now, I realize
> > the problem is that the appointments have been disappearing off my
> > calendar.  It first hit me last week, when two long standing repeating
> > meetings were missed - they had disappeared off both the desktop and palm
> > calendars.
> >
> > Today, a stand alone meeting, added last week, had disappeared off my
> > calendar, causing me to miss an important mtg.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this?  Before using the Palm, there were seldom
> > if ever disappearing appointments from my calendar.
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