Imate and PermanentSave

[Guido Giangiacomo]

got yesterday my imate. Wonderful device.
I have one question.
What does PermanentSave program (in Setting/System) perform (the manual is silent of this)?
I checked the 4 box for contact, calendar, appointment and task and now every time I soft reset start a syncronization process.

Does PermanentSave saves files into the Storage memory or in the Expanded Memory non generally accessible?
When and how can I do a restore?

Another question: Imate went to me with a file and a directory in the storage memory

the file:
RilNty_log date 1/9/03 of 953 bytes

the directory
PerSaveBackup

containing the following files

AppointmentProtectKey date 1/9/03of 0 byte
ConnectionProtectKey date 1/9/03 of 0 byte
TaskProtectKey date 1/9/03 of 0 byte
ContactsProtectKey date 1/9/03 of 0 byte

also after a softreset and a sync of permanetSave those files doesn't change neither date neither bytes.
Does the saving comes in theextendend rom not visible?

thanks

[g3lo]

Anyone knows how to delete this folder (PerSaveBackup) in the Storage area?

[Anonymous]

Anyone knows how to delete this folder (PerSaveBackup) in the Storage area?

I don't use permanent save; to disable it I removed the related files in the \windows\startup folder; there are 4 files whose name is something like aflashman.lnk,cflashman.lnk, etc

I do not remember exactly the names but the files in startup are so few that you cannot make mistakes; they all have the same icon.

At this point you can delete the directory in the storage simply using file manager.

Softreset first.

I did it sometimes and it worked.

Ciao

[dave]

Anyone knows how to delete this folder (PerSaveBackup) in the Storage area?

I don't use permanent save; to disable it I removed the related files in the \windows\startup folder; there are 4 files whose name is something like aflashman.lnk,cflashman.lnk, etc

I do not remember exactly the names but the files in startup are so few that you cannot make mistakes; they all have the same icon.

At this point you can delete the directory in the storage simply using file manager.

Softreset first.

I did it sometimes and it worked.

Ciao

[darkbyte]

IMHO it's very important to use the permanent save feature because you can do a hard reset and get back ALL your Task, Contacts, Calendar appointments and conection settings.

All the data it's saved in the Storage Flash Ram.

The only thing you need to do to recover from a hard reset is check again the four checkboxes in Permanet save and ALL your data (Task, Contacts, Calendar appointments and Conection Settings) comes to live another time.

A Sprite BAckup solution it's better because can restore ALL your data and applications, but at no cost you can be safer using the Permanent save feature.

Only my 2cents....

[g3lo]

IMHO it's very important to use the permanent save feature because you can do a hard reset and get back ALL your Task, Contacts, Calendar appointments and conection settings.

All the data it's saved in the Storage Flash Ram.

The only thing you need to do to recover from a hard reset is check again the four checkboxes in Permanet save and ALL your data (Task, Contacts, Calendar appointments and Conection Settings) comes to live another time.

A Sprite BAckup solution it's better because can restore ALL your data and applications, but at no cost you can be safer using the Permanent save feature.

Only my 2cents....

Im already using Sprite Backup that is why I no longer need the permanent save feature of the XDAII. The PerSaveBackup folder in the Storage is becoming to be annoying since I cant delete it.

Thanks.

Angelo