Re: CLue to duplicate appts.

[Jon Hamkins <hamkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Just as an FYI for all interested parties, I spoke with a QA engineer at
> > 3Com working on the Pam VII, Flash Sheridon if your interested, and he
> > indicated that this is the best way to avoid problems recovering from a
> > hard reset, i.e. install all PRCs first, and then installing the PDBs.
> > He noted that there are several apps that have problems if their
> > database is installed before they are. It has helped me (w/6 meg worth
> > of apps/dbs on my 8 meg TRG upgrade, yikes)
> 
> anyone with some free time want to make the Installer conduit always
> install prc's before pdb's ?
> 
> 	- Alan

The problem might be more complicated, unfortunately.  Apparently,
people using BackupBuddy (a windows backup utility) noticed the same
problem with HandyShopper, and they claim the .pdb has to be installed
*before* the .prc.  He was specific on the point.  At bottom is a post
to comp.sys.palmtops.pilot.

For the record, the author states for handyshopper v1.6:

"FIXED: v1.05 would crash if you tried to restore the Palm device after a
Hard Reset. This was due to an inappropriate optimization setting I had
turned on in the CodeWarrior compiler. This was not the same problem as
the crash that was fixed in v1.02, but the symptoms were the same.
Turning off the compiler option fixed the problem."

Well, I had my crash with v1.6, so I guess he didn't really fix the
problem.  It's open source, so I'm not complaining.  I'll contact the
author about it, or maybe I'll look at the code sometime.  

Does anyone know if this (pdb before prc) will work for all apps?  If
not, I don't think anyone should take time modifying the PilotManager
installer conduit yet.

     ----Jon

>> is how that I found that the Handyshopper DB was the cuplit. I
>>watched the palm screen to see which file caused the hang. After I
>>moved it out of the backup folder, everything went fine. I then tried
>>to install the DB with the normal install tool and it locked up. Did
>>v1.6 fix this problem?

>See my previous post.  Summary: Delete the HandyShopper app.  Install
>the database.  Reinstall the app.