{"id":7,"date":"2009-07-13T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haveblue.org\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-07-13T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:21:05","slug":"clie-ux-50-and-palm-desktop-6-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveblue.org\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Clie UX-50 and Palm Desktop 6.x"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;ve been using a PDA for ages.\u00a0 I started out with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpcalc.org\/details.php?id=144\">YONPY<\/a> on my beloved old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HP-48_series\">HP48GX<\/a> (no self-respecting engineering student would dare use anything else).  Wasn&#8217;t bad (was downright fantastic for cribbing notes, actually), but something a bit more task-suitable was needed, and I wound up getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PalmPilot_Professional\">PalmPilot Pro<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve been on the Palm platform ever since, upgrding the old Pro with a card from a Palm III, moving up to a IIIxe, destroying the IIIxe in a fit of lockup-induced rage, and finally getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/view_story.asp?ID=5891\">Clie UX-50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UX-50 is still a great device, and it just keeps on running (though the battery just doesn&#8217;t have the runtime it once did).\u00a0 Being that it is long out of support (and Sony&#8217;s software was never anything to write home about), I always wonder how long I&#8217;ll be able to keep it syncing with my laptop.\u00a0 Fortunately, quite a while it appears.\u00a0 After doing a fresh install of XP on my laptop (had gone a good 16 months without a reinstall &#8211; I think that&#8217;s a new record for me), I grabbed Palm Desktop 6.2 (I had been using 4.1.4e, but I&#8217;m a sucker for newer versions as much as anyone).\u00a0 The sync process completed successfully, but when I launched Palm Desktop, I had zilch.\u00a0 I noticed during the sync that there were actually double entries for Address Book, Memo Pad, etc., so I assumed that it must have been grabbing the data, but Palm Desktop wouldn&#8217;t show it to me as it was data from an &#8216;old&#8217; device and not one that 6.2 expected to communicate with.<\/p>\n<p>All was not lost, and a bit of searching found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=181142&amp;sid=018adaeea59ec8a5034170ba99cd7be8#181142\">very simple fix<\/a>.  I fired up regedit, dug down to <span>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\PalmSource\\Desktop\\<\/span><span>UiModule[0-3] and modified the file extensions from .mdb to .db for each of the four File0 registry keys.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\" title=\"Palm Desktop 6.2 registry fix\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/palmdesktop6fix1.jpg?resize=579%2C237\" alt=\"Palm Desktop 6.2 registry fix\" width=\"579\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/palmdesktop6fix1.jpg?w=579&amp;ssl=1 579w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/palmdesktop6fix1.jpg?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/haveblue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/palmdesktop6fix1.jpg?resize=210%2C86&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span> I synced once more for good measure (not sure if it was needed), fired up Palm Desktop, and sure enough, all my data was there.\u00a0 I guess the UX-50 will remain a mainstay in my pocket for a good while longer, assuming 6.2 works well under Windows Seven.<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using a PDA for ages.\u00a0 I started out with YONPY on my beloved old HP48GX (no self-respecting engineering student would dare use anything else). Wasn&#8217;t bad (was downright fantastic for cribbing notes, actually), but something a bit more task-suitable was needed, and I wound up getting a PalmPilot Pro. 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