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kazbluesky
06-26-2005, 02:56 AM
Hi Im new to this board and new to Palm. This is my first PDA (sorry, Mobile Manager) in fact.

I cant load a single program on to the life Drive and have it work. When the program does load in it never fails to give me an error message or a reset. For example, I tried loading Palm Fiction (got a reset). Tried loading in some books into DtG and it worked for a little then I had a reset every single time I used DTg after that. Finally did a Hard reset this morning and everything is working fine again. The only 2 books that seems to work with the eReader program is The last of the Mohicans (which Ive read already :mad: ).

Can someone lead me by the hand and tell me exactly how I should load in the book files I have, and where I should load them.

Id appreciate any help.

PS when it works, I love it!
PDAJah
06-26-2005, 05:28 AM
For eReader the books should be stored on the LifeDrive/Palm/books

So you need to create a new folder called "books" and deposit your ebooks there.

For Mobipocket you need the following LifeDrive/eBooks

I now it does not help, but I have installed Docs to Go but I have not used the Hotsync option yet but it does seems to work okay with Word/Excel files synced on my LifeDrive.
Ezikial Anta
06-26-2005, 10:36 AM
Welcome to Palm, and the boards.
Hopefully, this LifeDrive doesnt send you over the edge and you give bad word-of-mouth reviews, ect. :)
When you load, you mean Hotsync the programs on, correct?
kazbluesky
06-27-2005, 08:40 AM
PDAJah,
Thanks for your help. I tried what you said but no go. Then I tried loading Palm fiction again as a folder. It works perfectly now. That is a fantastic program!!

I recon most of the problems I was having with my LifeDrive were caused by me basically not knowing what I was doing. Not understanding the Hot sink stuff etc. As the days have gone by things are getting better and better.

Ezikail, I guess I did sound a bit negative. Thats not really how I feel though. Im a complete virgin when it comes to PDAs so I guess my opinion shouldnt count much but for what its worth I recon this is very very useful cool machine, very happy I bought it and am getting happier the more I use it.