Old memos deleted?

[GnR]

My battery ran out on my Clie. So I hotsynced it, everything is there but the memos. That was the most important stuff. The todo and everything is there, but the memos are gone. I looked in the backup folder under memopad and it only has some memos, I think those are the ones from my old m505.

Is there anyway to get back my old memos?

[n2ifp]

Do you have Norton's undelete? Look in the Recycle bin to see if it's still there. When a file is erased, it's usually just the first letter. Norton's undelete has bailed my butt out many times. I suppose you didn't nack it up to the memory stick. Never rely on the desktop for backup, for a variety of reasons.

Are you sure in the memopad folder there is no memopad.bak? Backup file, just rename it to memopad.dat to restore it.

[DanT]

Yes, the memopad backup should be in something like:
C:\Program Files\Sony Handheld\[your CLIE's username]\memopad\memopad.bak

[GnR]

IT just opens a word pad file with the file name and a bunch of squares. Do I drag that .bak file somewhere?

[Griff]

Depends on if you use Palm Desktop as your main program. Does the .bak file have the current date?

If so, close down Palm DT, open windows explorer and cruise over to the directory mentioned above. Then rename the existing memopad.dat to memopad.new, and rename the memopad.bak to memopad.dat. Open up Palm Desktop and check to see if your memos are there.

If they are, just do a dt overwrites handheld sync for memos and you are set. If they are not and the file looks old, close down Palm Desktop, go back to the directory, rename memopad.dat to memopad.bak and rename memopad.new back to memopad.dat.

Hopefully you get everything back...good luck.

[rob_squared]

DanT, love your sig. :D

[Griff]

Well...did you get your stuff back?

[DanT]

Originally posted by rob_squared
DanT, love your sig. :D

:D.  Hoping to get the message across to some people.

[GnR]

I didn't even try it yet, I'm so lazy in the summer all I want to do is play chess.

[Griff]

Heh...make sure you do it before you hotsync again...

[Hannibal]

Originally posted by DanT


:D.  Hoping to get the message across to some people.

Dan, I think you have a typo in your Sig though. Not being critical, but I just noticed it ;)

"Having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool."

Shouldn't it be?

"Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool."

'is like' instead of 'like'

[Hannibal]

Originally posted by GnR
I didn't even try it yet, I'm so lazy in the summer all I want to do is play chess.

It's really quick to do, but as Griff said, make sure you do this before you hotsync, otherwise you will lose the info.

[DanT]

Hannibal, thanks for the correction. If there are more people like you, my English would be much better by now. ;)

[Hannibal]

Originally posted by DanT
Hannibal, thanks for the correction.

And I'm a smoker to boot, but a courteous one and am in the process of quitting. BTW, I am VERY careful when in the pool. :D

[DanT]

I hope you quit it for good.

'VERY careful', hmm, what an ambiguous choice of words, you either being sneaky and spread the leak unnoticeably or just trying to keep your cigaret dry while skinny dipping, or may be both. I better keep an eye on you when you are in my swimming pool. ;)

[Hannibal]

Originally posted by DanT
I better keep an eye on you when you are in my swimming pool. ;)


LOL!!! Yeah, I made that ambiguous to see what you would do with it and you did exactly what I thought you would! No, I am an "anti-peeing in the pool" person myself. :D

[newyorktd]

Originally posted by Hannibal


And I'm a smoker to boot, but a courteous one and am in the process of quitting. BTW, I am VERY careful when in the pool. :D

Hannibal,

You CAN do it. I am on one year this July 6 w/o tobacco.

If you take all the money you are giving to those fat cats in Tobacco country and save it...Think about all the toys you will be able to have ;)

I pack at $5 X 365 = $1825 (thats a lot of PDAs during a calendar year!)

Good Luck

[Hannibal]

Originally posted by newyorktd
You CAN do it. I am on one year this July 6 w/o tobacco.

Congrats on your 1-yr and thanks for the support! I will give it my best! Actually, this was timely since I'm having my last cig tonight and planned it that way. I will savor it! :D This has gotten off-topic and I was reluctant to respond. So, I will give an advance thanks to anyone else who might comment on this. ;)

[Unregistered]

finally gnr deleted his sig

[GnR]

So did you quit yet or did the juicy cancer stick that you crave over power you?

[GnR]

Griff, that didn't work. Now my desktop won't open, I have to call Sony, I'll get some hindu guy probaby.

[GnR]

Called Sony, got back my old memos from when I had my m505, but I guess I messed up everything and corrupted the new ones. Oh well.