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Worked for me
Authored by: rwa on Aug 29, '02 01:22:17PM

I saw this on MacInTouch yesterday and replied there as well. Palm generally works fine on multiple partitions, though I had some permission issues to deal with. Here\'s the email I sent to MacInTouch:

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This isn\'t the case, though there can be some issues. I\'ve installed Palm
HotSync on five different machines running OS X, all with the Users folder on a
separate partition from the OS.

The install usually works normally, with the user data going into
~/Documents/Palm (e.g. /Volumes/Users_Disk/User_Name/Documents/Palm) and the
conduits going into /Library/Application Support/Palm Hotsync. I put the actual
Palm Desktop application on a third partition (/Volumes/Applications/Palm).

On three of the machines it worked right away without a hitch. Two others had
permission problems. One was in the hierarchy leading up to the conduits and
one was in a \"Temporary Items\" folder on the users drive. In both cases the
software couldn\'t create a user unless I was logged in as root. If you created
one as root and then changed it\'s ownership to another user (even one with admin
privileges), moved the files to that users home folder, the Hotsync manager
application couldn\'t configure the conduits. You\'d make changes and it would
just quit. Restart the application and the changes wouldn\'t be saved.

This was pretty clearly a permissions issue b/c it worked as root. It was just
a matter of figuring out what was different between machines that worked and
those that didn\'t. I don\'t know how the permissions got changed on the two
machines that didn\'t work.



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