Can I save Tasks and Calendar to built-in storage?

armando416 · 03-06-04, 08:20 PM

This is sort of a two-part question. My appreciation to whoever can help me out. For whatever reason, I am constantly having to reinstall my Axim as it gets chronic slowdown. This usually has to take place about once a month. Soooo...I assume that this slowdown must be caused by a certain program (or programs) that I install...so I have a backup that was created when the Axim was perfectly stable with most of the basic programs that I like to have (still quite a few). The problem is, I really can't do a restore with this to save time, because I will lose all the tasks and calendar items I have added since the last reinstall. So what I end up doing every month is making a backup of the PIM database only (since I assume that the PIM database isn't causing any slowdowns), wiping the Axim memory clean and doing a restore of the PIM only, and then manually reinstalling the Axim and ALL its programs from scratch. This can take quite some time, and gets quite annoying, especially when I get unlucky and sometimes end up having to do it more than once a month. So basically, my major questions are:

1)Why the heck is my Axim always screwing up and slowing to a crawl if I don't reinstall it every month?

-is this because of a program(s) I am installing like I assume? At some moment, it just gets to the point where none of my games run fast enough to play anymore...I get errors and "buffering" problems in Media player...and my PPC sometimes decides to
randomly stop giving me reminders for certain tasks

2)Is there a way to save my calendar and task reminders to the built-in memory? I figure that this way (if I don't get the first problem of the instability solved), I can do a clean wipe and use the more hefty backup with many of my programs already installed, and save myself the time of digging around on my computer and CDs to reinstall them all manually (this normally takes me over an hour). My calendar should still show up since it was in the non-erased memory.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Maybe a 3rd party program that replaces calendar and tasks, and is still easy to use? Thanks in advance for any help.

nomad_delta · 03-06-04, 08:59 PM

About your Axim slowing to a crawl if you don't reinstall it every month -- are you using PPC 2003? If so, I was having a similar problem myself 'cause there is a bug in PPC 2003 that causes extra entries to be added to the notification queue every time you do a soft reset. Those add up and eventually your Axim slows to a crawl. There's no official fix yet but here's a link to a freeware utility that will automatically remove the extra entries upon each soft reset... it's also got some more detailed info about the bug:

http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/ppc_cn_overview.html

MrKlaatu · 03-06-04, 09:05 PM

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Also, have you tried just Soft Resetting to see if ic clears up the problem instead of having to do a Hard Reset??

Nancy Stanphill · 03-06-04, 10:02 PM

Yes, the scarybear software works. Give it a try.

gadgetnerd · 03-29-04, 04:28 PM

To answer your second question, yes, there is. You can use the Dell Backup program... OH wait, I'm stupid - that doesn't work... I tried it once, then did a hard reset, but I guess I did that to my SD Card... I dunno. I guess you could give the following a try, if it's not what you're already doing.

Open up the Data Backup program on your Axim. Try backing up just the PIM Databases you want to backup. Then back them up. Try hard-resetting, last time I tried this the app doesn't recognize the fact that the backup is there, but that was on the 2002 OS, so maybe the 2003 has updated some registry... issues.