Re: Backup after reset

[schuetze <Matthias.Schuetze@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> 
> the fatal exception probably comes from a bug in an app that isn't handling
> the install of its DB properly.. as someone else pointed out, you can avoid
> a bug like this by installing the DB first (so the program itself isn't
> present to be called, causing the crash) and the program(prc) second.
> 
> This is not a pilot OS bug, but a bug in a particular app (not handling the
> notification msg that its DB has been updated).
> This bug should NOT be present in any of the builtin apps such as MemoPad.
> If you get a crash when installing MemoDB.pdb then something is seriously
> wrong!
> 
> 	- Alan

It is true, I DO have serious problems with restoring the databases. 
To figure out where the problem is I made a hard reset of the Pilot. The first 
thing I had to do after that procedure is to install the user and user-id (using 
install-user). Then I installed all databases (except the built-in ones) and 
programs - no problem. After that I tried to install the built-in DBs (namely 
AddressDB and MemoDB) - "fatal exception" on the Pilot. A "pilot-xfer -d MemoDB" 
to delete MemoDB on the Pilot also results in a "fatal exception". 

So the last thing I tried was to restore data with the original 3com Software 
(Windows NT), which also yields a "fatal exception".

In my opinion there are two possible reasons for this behaviour:
1) My Pilot has a defect.
2) The data format of the databases backuped with PilotManager is corrupt. Maybe 
because I am using a German version of the Pilot software?? 

So the last question I would like to ask in this thread: Did anyone successfully 
restore built-in databases with non-english Pilot software?

Matthias

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