My Treo

I’m finally getting back up to speed with using my Treo to store/access information again. Before last summer, I had actually started to rely on it to store needed info, such as reminders and IDs and such. Once I lost that, I noticed really quick that trying to rely on just writing things down or having you remind me here and there just wasn’t cutting it. I got out of the habit of relying on it, since I couldn’t store much in it nor could I get much out of it.

I must make sure to keep very accurate backups from now on, which is what really did me it. Once I first restored my old phone in
August and then got my replacement phone last December, I should have been able to just load it with the backed up data and picked up where I left off. Not having that was my downfall. I will say that most of that was not really my fault. I did have backup software set up, called BackupBuddy, which I used for a number of years. Last year, I had mistakenly thought that Palm had upgraded their software to backup everything on a device, not just key files, so I stopped using BackupBuddy. However, when I needed to restore from my backups, I found that I didn’t have anything current to work with because of my mistaken assumption. Oh, and there was some two months lost due to not being able to get hotsyncs to work due to Windows Service Pack 3 update that killed Palms nearly everywhere. I had to search for that solution on the web and it took me quite some time to do it.

All in all, when I find a solution that is actually working, I need to put work into making sure that it stays in place. Just because I think that I have found a ‘better’ solution, I should not abandon my old one until I am absolutely and positively sure that the new one is working 110%.