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File menu trick works for corrupted OSX User Data files too
Authored by: bobd on Jan 14, '02 10:40:59PM

I have a Firewire G3 PowerBook and experienced the same problem. I followed wealthychef's prescription more or less and eventually got it to work ... the critical thing seems to be to prevent Palm Desktop seizing on the OS9 User Data file and attempting to convert it, but instead corrupting it. Thus, back it up and move it out of the old Palm folder before doing the installation, then use Open... from the File menu to convert it.

However, I'm not out of the woods yet ... my User Data file sometimes becomes corrupted spontaneously (overnight ... could it have something to do with anacron?). I store frequent backups and revert to the latest one, again using the File menu.



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