A colleague of mine has ACT! 6 Contact Management software on his desktop and 'ACT! for Palm OS' running on his Treo phone.
All worked well until he had a hard drive crash on the desktop and had to recover the ACT! database. The most useful backup was six weeks out of date. However, the Palm version is right up-to-date.
In their wisdom, Best Software, producers of ACT!, do not allow the Palm software to overwrite the desktop database - only synchronise with it.
Consequently, the 'ACT! for Palm OS' software is the only one being updated - yet the desktop databse becomes more and more out of date.
There are really two issues here....
1) The desktop database needs bringing in line with the Palm. Is there a way other than going through every record and checking for changes by eye?
2) How can the Treo ACT! data be backed-up? The device doesn't have a slot for an expansion card and it's a protected application so cannot be beamed. Is there any way to save the data somehow?
We'd very much appreciate any solutions you can throw our way.
Thanks
Fruity
All worked well until he had a hard drive crash on the desktop and had to recover the ACT! database. The most useful backup was six weeks out of date. However, the Palm version is right up-to-date.
In their wisdom, Best Software, producers of ACT!, do not allow the Palm software to overwrite the desktop database - only synchronise with it.
Consequently, the 'ACT! for Palm OS' software is the only one being updated - yet the desktop databse becomes more and more out of date.
There are really two issues here....
1) The desktop database needs bringing in line with the Palm. Is there a way other than going through every record and checking for changes by eye?
2) How can the Treo ACT! data be backed-up? The device doesn't have a slot for an expansion card and it's a protected application so cannot be beamed. Is there any way to save the data somehow?
We'd very much appreciate any solutions you can throw our way.
Thanks
Fruity
