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[ghost640]

Note: the Quick Install utility that uploads pdb files to a Palm device does not work under Windows Vista. So if you are using Cachemate, you won't be able to use your Vista machine to update your cachemate files.

Note that this upload problem goes beyond cachemate, and has ticked off lots of Palm users (some at Palm, some at Windows, some are just ticked...) - but for now, Palm hasn't released a patch for Vista.

So keep a machine or two on XP!

[Pear Head]

There was quite a discussion on this last week on the Oklahoma caching listserve. I think they had some answers on how to fix it but I'm not sure. I'll have to browse the archives some and see. I don't use a Palm anymore so I pretty much deleted the related emails.
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[ghost640]

I've got it! This is probably a problem no one else has, but I'm going to post the answer anyway so when I forget how I did this, I can look it up.

The problem: can't install a PDB file (or anything) to a Palm device under Vista, which means you can't load anything into Cachemate

Solution: Simple in retrospect (after killing the morning on this).

Create PDB file with GSAK
Insert SD card into the PC's card reader
Create a directory called /CacheMate
Copy PDB file to /Cachemate
Insert SD card into Palm

Next time you boot up the Palm, it will scan the card and import caches from all the PDB files in that directory.

WOOT! as they say

[cstjohn]

Hmmmm....haven't had problems with this one. Vista has certainly created some challenges, but this hasn't been one of them for me.

When I installed the Hot Sync software from the CD I did eliminate \Program Files\ and installed directly to C: This was counter-intuitive from previous Windows operating system installations, but in reading a bunch of boards over problems with security and Vista - this seems to be the fix. I was having problems with GSAK until I did the same thing.

The only thing that I can't run is the Magellan software. But, hey, no real loss there.

[ghost640]