things were all right this am. put my device in cradle, synched. got to work and had no calendar. contacts yes. just tried resynching at home. finally saw there was 698 calendar updates being put in device. but the device is still blank; now there is nothing on my laptop outlook, and the contacts have disappeared from my device. i am a therapist have loads of appts and contacts there are critical to my busines.

PLEASE HELP MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE. JACK

Have you had the foresight to conduct regular (ie, daily) backups of your laptop and pda, Jack?

If you have, about now looks like the time to use them.

Bitter past experience has taught me never to trust technology.

If you have backups, then try a hard re-set on the pda and re-synch following restoration of your laptop Outlook contact database.

Best of luck, Jack.

Just a long shot..but maybe your calendar is still there...could it be the date on your axim and/or one of the PC's is off? I once thought I lost all my calendar on a Palm, turned out the PC clock was off by 2 years (no idea how) and somehow that propogated to the palm and I was looking at the wrong year on the calendar!

Also, I bet if you scour the web you will find utilities to restore the contacts and calendar on your laptop. I doubt they have been permanently deleted off the drive yet, there are probably tools to get them back. Good luck.

thanks for the suggestions and encouragement. will check out when i get home to my laptop. i also consulted two "experts" not much hope or direction from them. have started to recreate. which is a pain. o well i've learned my back up lesson the hard way. thanks again. jack