annoyances – dead hard disk, palm desktop
I always preach that people should back up their data frequently, but in practice it’s not so simple. I had an ibook hard disk die on me, and although I have backed it up in the fairly recent past, it’s not as recent a backup as I’d like. Ah well.
So now I’m setting up a fresh new Tiger partition to run from on a new drive. Just to keep things extra-fresh, instead of restoring from backup I’m just copying over the files that matter to me from the backup, and am installing applications using the installers.
My Treo has now gone since 8/11/05 without syncing (and that was to the hard drive that is now dead), and I want to be able to access all of its info on the new system. So I went to palm’s website to download the latest version of Palm Desktop…
Palm™ Desktop 4.2.1 Rev B for Mac August 11, 2005 Not available at this time We apologize for the inconvenience, but the web download of Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Rev B for Mac has become temporarily unavailable. Within the next week, we expect to make this file available again. Until then, please install Palm Desktop from the CD-ROM that came with your device. Thank you for your patience.Are they crazy? Argh. I’d be happy to install any old version of Palm Desktop and get it working just to be able to get my mac addressbook sync’ed. Why take down the download? I don’t have my Treo install CD handy, in fact it’s hidden away in the treo box in the back of my storage area in the garage behind an old monitor and a Costco-size pack of toilet paper. I never install from manufacturer supplied CDs, which may have been sitting in the product box for months and become outdated — it is always wiser to download the newer versions from manufacturer’s websites. For this reason I don’t keep the useless install CDs handy.
I wonder how long the Palm Desktop download link will be down.
– [8-18-05 -- the download is still down, but the previous version of Palm Desktop for Mac is available and it works just fine for us non-Treo 650 folk]
