Re: [PilotMgr] error: modification of a read-only ... line 2665

[Eric Sharakan - Sun High Performance Computing <Eric.Sharakan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe one of the issues with the "modification of ..." error messge has to 
do with attempting to sync to a different palm device, which doesn't contain the 
same user name and user ID as the previous unit.

So, you need to make sure your new palm gets the same user namd and ID as the 
previous one.  If you've already been sync'ing your previous unit with another 
desktop (i.e. using a different syncing mechanism than pilotmgr), you're in 
luck.  All you have to do is sync with that other machine first.  It will load 
the correct user name and ID onto your pilot, after which pilotmgr seems happy.  
I just did this, and upgraded from a III to a Vx with no problems.

If you haven't beeen syncing with another desktop, I'm not sure what to do.  I 
don't believe entering the same user name is sufficient; the user ID (a 
seven-digit number) must also match.  There's a fairly well-known, albeit 
officially undocumented graffiti shortcut which shows your name and ID 
(<shortcut symbol>.4), but I don't know how to program that info into a new 
unit.  Anyone else know?

Art, in your particular case, I think the issue might be that you first tried to 
sync with pilotmgr.  Try this: do a hard reset, then sync with your home PC, 
then try syncing with pilotmgr.

-Eric

>Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Arthur Black <arthurb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PilotMgr] error:  modification of a read-only ... line 2665
>
>I'm running into the same problem reported by others on the upgrade issue and 
need some help.  My old PalmPilot died recently, so I bought a Palm Vx as a 
replacement.  But I have not be able to get Pilotmgr to talk to it.  
>
>When people talk about the fix of using the Install conduit to load a new ap, 
are you using the PilotManager File->Installer menu, or are you using another 
technique?
>
>I have gone through the following sequence, but none have fixed the problem:
>
>-first tried syncing with pilotmgr.  Got the "modification of .." error message
>-sync'ed the Palm Vx on my home PC.  Everything worked fine.
>-tried syncing with pilotmgr, got the "modification of .." error message
>-using my home PC, upgraded the Palm Vx OS from 3.5.0 to 3.5.2
>-tried syncing with pilotmgr, got the "modification of .." error message
>-tried using the PilotManager File->Installer menu to install a file on the 
Pilot.  Again got the same  "modification of .." error message
>
>The version of perl installed on our shared file system is perl,V5.003
>
>thanks for any help,
>
>
>Art Black
>
>
>
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