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11-22-08, 08:54 PM

Well, after all this time, I have a new update.

Eventually and once again, my 6945 quit syncing with the XP Pro machine. I tried everything in all the links to get it working - everything, short of a hard reset.

My only recourse was to pull out the 2 GB mini-SD & manually copy the files (including the PIM.VOL file, just to have a backup). Since I don't do any scheduling or contact stuff from my desktop machine, this was a viable solution. Things went along like this for quite a while - over a year, actually.

Then, last weekend, April's computer died. Since I won't support two DIFFERENT machines, that meant that I got to build two new (exactly alike) machines - meaning that I got a new desktop machine for myself, also.

It was really nice to go from the 866 mhz Intel Pentium III machine with 640 mb RAM to a 3GhZ AMD Athalon with 8 GB RAM (kept the same hard drives, for a while, about to remove the IDEs & install SATAs).

I can't believe how much faster the Internet is, and especially how much faster my MS-Office apps load. But, the real benefit is that my 6945 suddenly started syncing with the desktop machine - all on it's own and without me jumping through any hoops.

Now, I know this is an "extreme" solution for something like syncing the PPC. But, it worked and without any loss of data!

Now, my NEXT project will be to build a Linux server. I'm doing that next weekend - Thanksgiving - after the case & 5 hdd's (4 250 GB drives RAIDed & one 80 GB HDD for the Linux OS) arrive. It'll be the same motherboard & RAM as we have on the desktops (comes with RAID built-in). So, it'll be interesting to see if I can get the PPC to sync up through my desktop to folders on the network server!

11-22-08, 08:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
DarkFlame Guest Posts: n/a	Well, after all this time, I have a new update. Eventually and once again, my 6945 quit syncing with the XP Pro machine. I tried everything in all the links to get it working - everything, short of a hard reset. My only recourse was to pull out the 2 GB mini-SD & manually copy the files (including the PIM.VOL file, just to have a backup). Since I don't do any scheduling or contact stuff from my desktop machine, this was a viable solution. Things went along like this for quite a while - over a year, actually. Then, last weekend, April's computer died. Since I won't support two DIFFERENT machines, that meant that I got to build two new (exactly alike) machines - meaning that I got a new desktop machine for myself, also. It was really nice to go from the 866 mhz Intel Pentium III machine with 640 mb RAM to a 3GhZ AMD Athalon with 8 GB RAM (kept the same hard drives, for a while, about to remove the IDEs & install SATAs). I can't believe how much faster the Internet is, and especially how much faster my MS-Office apps load. But, the real benefit is that my 6945 suddenly started syncing with the desktop machine - all on it's own and without me jumping through any hoops. Now, I know this is an "extreme" solution for something like syncing the PPC. But, it worked and without any loss of data! Now, my NEXT project will be to build a Linux server. I'm doing that next weekend - Thanksgiving - after the case & 5 hdd's (4 250 GB drives RAIDed & one 80 GB HDD for the Linux OS) arrive. It'll be the same motherboard & RAM as we have on the desktops (comes with RAID built-in). So, it'll be interesting to see if I can get the PPC to sync up through my desktop to folders on the network server!