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Palm Releases Desktop 4 for Mac

Posted by pudge on from the computers-can-do-that dept.

AnamanFan writes "MacNN reports that Palm has released the final golden version of the Palm Desktop 4 with features such as improved synchronization, privacy, vCard, vCal, and most importantly, Mac OS X native. A Mac OS 9 version also available. Japanese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish versions are available, but only as betas." Note, however, that most conduits need to be updated to work with version 4, so for now you can't use Vindigo or AvantGo with the new version. For now, I am sticking with the old version.

7 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Link to source code by gvsu_snow_lord · · Score: 1, Informative

    you mean binary code? Someone posted the "direct" url over at osx.macn.com (http://palm-heva.www.conxion.com/PalmDesktopMac40 ENG.si)

  2. Data Corruption by ek_adam · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hope they fixed the data corruption problems that the beta had. About half a dozen times over the past few months my desktop data file would not open, and had to be deleted and restored from backup.

    1. Re:Data Corruption by derch · · Score: 4, Informative

      There's a work around I found for this.

      When you can't open your regular data file, create a new one, then merge the old in with the File->Merge command.

      But, yah, hopefully the bug is fixed.

    2. Re:Data Corruption by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 3, Informative

      It appears it does - I tried it out, and my Beta was already corrupted.

      Sync has worked just fine so far.

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  3. Doesn't work with NFS home directories... by surajrai · · Score: 3, Informative

    This release does not work on NFS exported home directories. There has been long discussions on this subject but it seems Palm doesn't care.

    S.r.

  4. Entourage support? by sg3000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, has Microsoft said anything about conduit support for Palm PDAs? My Palm V is just gathering dust waiting for Entourage X synchronication.

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  5. Handspring sez, don't use. by Niherlas · · Score: 2, Informative

    Handspring is recommending that Visor users refrain from using Palm's release of Desktop 4.0, mostly because Handspring hasn't done their own testing with the new software.

    However, it's working fine with my Visor Platinum. Just one gotcha - the Palm distribution tries to install update files (which, obviously, don't work on the Visor). The solution is to delete or rename the "PalmOS Updates" folder from the folder that the Palm Desktop application is stored in (it can't find the updates, so doesn't install 'em. Simple.)

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