Palm Desktop - Quits Unexpectedly

Question

I've been using Palm Desktop to sync my calendar only for years. Synced last night with no problem.
Came home today and tried to sync and while trying to sync the Palm Conduit Manager unexpectedly quit. Same error happens while trying to open Palm Desktop.
I've tried to uninstall/re-install Palm Desktop and associated files to no avail.
Anyone seen this problem in the past and know how to fix in.
I have installed no new software between the now, and the last successful syncing. My Mac is acting very much like a PC!

Answer 1

Hi Erik,
First off your 1st phone call if your going to call anyone should be Palm...not Mac. Sounds like your Mac is working fine..its just the Palm dektop software that is acting up.
Before you do any of the following steps please make sure you have ALL your important data on your Palm / Computer backed up somewhere off the computer (CD / DVD etc).
Reinstalling the Palm software is a good bet but the installers do not remove some of the files that may be causing your issue.
Consider removing ~/library/caches, ~/library/preferences/com.palm.HotSync.plist and then trying again.
If that still doesn't help I would try running your sync on an alternate user account and see it works over there.
If it doesn't then I would HIGHLY suggest contacting palm.
If it does then you get to do the fun fun fun task of troubleshooting your library folder in the affected user account.
You can simply pull the entire ~/library folder out...but then your account will revert to it's factory state and you will need to put all your settings back in.