Trouble Hot or corrupted files

Quite sometime back I posted about sync issues I was experiencing. In the end I thought it was a damaged Hot Sync cable-USB. I justbought a new one and nothing has changed. Here is where I am at: Plugged in the new cable hit the sync button and both the desk top andhand held started the sync process. 10 minutes later the sync indicator on the desk top was still running and the Hot Sync on the hand heldhad frozen up. I clicked cancel on the desktop and it continued to run, I clicked cancel on the hand held and nothing happened. Afteranother 5 minutes I closed the program down with Task Manager. I had to reset the hand held to get it back up and running. **** Justturned the hand held back on, BAD NEWS*** It deleted my calendar from Jan 12, 2009 back to March 15, 2008 on the desk top (except forno time entries such as birthdays, etc..) but not on the hand held. It deleted the "BUSINESS" category of the address book on my hand heldbut not on the desk top!!!! I think at this point I would like to know #1. How to back up the files I want on the desk top to my server, #2. Wipe the hand held clean. #3. Set the desktop to sync only from the desk top so I have a clean install on the hand held, and #4. Find outhow to set it to sync both ways after that. I went to Calmlooked for user/Randy Mesec) all I couls find was a file named "0"!! I opened it and it is my stuff so I renamed it Randy Mesec. I really want to try another sync but will wait until I hear back from you guys so I do not make more of a mess.
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I will answer your questions in RED below.
Quite sometime back I posted about sync issues I was experiencing. In the end I thought it was a damaged Hot Sync cable-USB. I justbought a new one and nothing has changed. Here is where I am at: Plugged in the new cable hit the sync button and both the desk top andhand held started the sync process. 10 minutes later the sync indicator on the desk top was still running and the Hot Sync on the hand heldhad frozen up. I clicked cancel on the desktop and it continued to run, I clicked cancel on the hand held and nothing happened. Afteranother 5 minutes I closed the program down with Task Manager. I had to reset the hand held to get it back up and running. **** Justturned the hand held back on, BAD NEWS*** It deleted my calendar from Jan 12, 2009 back to March 15, 2008 on the desk top (except forno time entries such as birthdays, etc..) but not on the hand held. It deleted the "BUSINESS" category of the address book on my hand heldbut not on the desk top!!!! I think at this point I would like to know #1. How to back up the files I want on the desk top to my server,
Click on the following link to the kb.palm.com webpage for the article regarding exporting data from Palm Desktop. Make a folder on the PC desktop and export the data to that folder. Name the folder Palm desktop backup data. When you export the data make sure you select "ALL" for the range. After the export to the folder, you can copy the folder to an external drive, flash drive or burn a CD-RW for backup purposes.
http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=28734
#2. Wipe the hand held clean. You need to hard reset the handheld.
Click on the following link to the kb.palm.com webpage for the article regarding reset procedures.
http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=887
#3. Set the desktop to sync only from the desk top so I have a clean install on the hand held,
Change the conduits to desktop overwrites handheld.
Click on the following link to the kb.palm.com webpage for the article regarding Changing conduit settings in the HotSync Manager.
http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=26460
and #4. Find out how to set it to sync both ways after that. In hotsync manager change the conduits for each category to synchronize the files. Look at the previous link for the instructions.
I went to Calmlooked for user/Randy Mesec) all I couls find was a file named "0"!! I opened it and it is my stuff so I renamed it Randy Mesec. I really want to try another sync but will wait until I hear back from you guys so I do not make more of a mess.
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Thanks very much~!
Message was edited by: DanielAzarc

Curses. It's been this long and I still can't think of a witty way to bump my thread. I would mention the alien outside my bathroom window, but my bathroom doesn't have a window. I suppose that's a good thing. Though ventilation would be nice at times.
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Thanks
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I am having trouble opening an autorecovered file. It is an ASD file but when I try to open it using Word, I get an "unsupported file" error message. I tried to copy it and open it elsewhere, but cannot open it.
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Try to open and repair the ASD format file through Word File > Open > Computer > Open and repair
If it still doesn't work, it means the ASD file is also corrupted. Try the suggestion in the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316951/en-us
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