As regulars will know, last year sometime I bought a new PDA all bright and shiny new and proudly brought it home to play. It’s all worked perfectly… more or less… pictures are pretty good, notes, contact lists etc all fine. Just one little eensy weensy niggle. It wouldn’t synchronise its data with any of the computers I tried to link it to. This as you can imagine is not good.
The problem of course is not having any kind of backup if the machine should lose *all* it’s power and then of course it would lose most of the data in the contact list and importantly… the calendar with all the appointments etc in it.
I went back to the shop and asked for support… and they gave me a telephone number to ring. I called it intermittently over the past months but it was always the same end. The phone would ring, I’d get to the ‘welcome’ message. The message would run twice and then cut off the line… user friendly… not!!!
Anyway… to cut a long story short I decided it was getting quite urgent so set out to fix it. I simply could *not* get the XP machine to sync despite upgrading the software and deleting anything that might be causing an ‘obstruction’ to file/data transfer. However, the Vista machine was another issue. Buried on the Microsoft site is all the information you need… and after trial and error for an hour and a half I finally managed to get the machine to recognise the PDA and copy the info to the computer.
Sounds good… but I ought to point out that in order to do it I also had to purchase a new copy of Microsoft Office… the 2007 version. I found the installation discs for the 2003 version but not the product key. No doubt as soon as I go back to the cd boxes it’ll turn up… $250 too late 😦
Still… to be fair MS-Office 2007 looks *really* good so it might well be worth the money… well until the wife reads this and finds out how much I spent on it anyway. No doubt I’ll get a ‘telling off’ soon enough. 😀
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