The Tungsten PDA

Today I installed a program that was in the ToDo days ago: Pref Doctor. At the bottom of the page you'll find a link to download. He is strong in development, and new versions that appear frequently correcting bugs. As noted, is in beta and may have bugs. So we must take precautions before you turn it (backups, etc.).

Choosing between the three "cures"

This program avoids the loss of preferences in programs, which occurs at times when we have a reset. In my case, prior to achieve more stability in my Tungsten E2 with DbCacheTool, every two or three resets occurred to me mysteriously lost some of my preferences applications. There were scores of any game, and things without too much importance, but obviously with this program we can avoid this problem completely.

You can activate three "cures." I read what it says about them the help of the program:

• The first is recommended by the PalmSource, so it is completely safe to activate.
• The second is "stronger medicine", consisting of block memory in the preferences file. Should be activated only if you lose the preferences taking the first set. It has two "contra": changes in the preferences will only be saved when you quit the application, not instantaneously as usual. So if we suffer a reset, we would have changed the configuration of the application open will be lost. And, on the other hand, there are two cases reported that, having turned the second priest, the changes made since he was activated, were lost in the reset. That is, every time you reset a case, the preferences will revert to those it had before activating the cure. In that case, we are encouraged to report them in the forums, so that the developer might try to fix it.
• The third is to simply make a backup of the file automatically each time you change. So, when you are corrupted, we can replace it with the last known good copy.

Summing up. If you have not ever had the problem of losing preferences, not instaléis. Otherwise, the only cure instaladlo activating one and three. The two only must prove that if everything else is useless. The forum is doing a segumiento of all the experiences of users, so it is advisable to follow him to be aware of potential incompatibilities.

It's recently installed on my machine, and now I have not had any problems. I tried to do a reset, and there have been no problems. If over time I meet one, I will post on the matter. Those who already installed contaréis me in the comments that he has gone.

By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Analysis
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