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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.

12 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. 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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  2. 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.

  3. Re:and why is this a slashdot headline story? by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A Palm development kit release for Linux is news. Mac client software that was due six months ago is NOT newsworthy pudge.

    Oh, so Slashdot is a Linux-only club now? Pfeh. The folks that run the site found it worthy to create an Apple section. Posting news of new software releases-- especially long-awaited ones-- is entirely justified.

    If you don't like it, don't bloody click on it.

  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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    1. Re:Entourage support? by speechpoet · · Score: 2, Funny

      According to this post, the conduit's coming sometime in... take a deep breath... June.

      Yeah. June. Anyone care to bet which will ship first -- the conduit or Photoshop?

  5. Address book. by saintlupus · · Score: 2

    I'm downloading this (slowly) in another window - does anyone know if this includes a conduit for Apple's Address Book app, or if there's one available from the Apple site? Would be nice to have an updated list for Mail.app...

    --saint

  6. Re:Entourage support by evil_roy · · Score: 2

    QueueSync works well. Just be sure to read the warnings in the docs. They're a good read anyway.

    eg " HotSync does the folder that the inside of the list box is chosen"

    Try the app and the docs make sense.

  7. Re:6 replies? You'd think this was a Katz story!!! by @madeus · · Score: 2

    Just to prove my point, someone modded me down.

    YOU SHOULD SPEND MORE POINTS MODDING PEOPLE UP OR THE SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK.

    By all means mod troll's down, but by modding post like this down when you could be modding *good* post up, then you are breaking the entire system. *Think!*

    **Good Grief**

  8. Serial to USB Converter by Cadre · · Score: 2
    I use aa serial to USB converter which then goes into my mac, but it still does not sync.

    Try unplugging and plugging the USB plug. I have the same setup and this usually fixes it whenever it won't sync.

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  9. 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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