Show Palm Desktop Who’s Boss
As with the standard Palm applications, the Palm desktop is a fairly simple program. Don’t mistake this simplicity for inflexibility, though; you can usually get it to do what you want even when the solution is not obvious.
The desktop is powerful, if you know how to use it. You can use the desktop to restore a Palm device or PC. You can command different views of data. You can take charge of importing data to load addresses and contacts from a variety of sources. All this power is freely available in the desktop.
Warning
If you sync with Microsoft Outlook instead of the Palm desktop, then you may not see anything in Palm desktop. Most modern Palm devices ship with Chapura PocketMirror. If you have enabled this conduit, then it will take over contacts, To Do’s, and so on and you won’t see anything in Palm desktop.
Reinstall Applications
If you need to reinstall applications and you don’t have the .prc file anymore, then you have an alternative. Any applications that you have ever installed on your Palm device are stored in one of two locations: c:\Program Files\Palm Handheld\
<HotSync ID>
\Archive and c:\Program Files\Palm Handheld\
<HotSync ID>
\Backup. You can modify this directory when you first install the desktop software, so you may need to look around a bit. Also, for a Treo 600, the directory will have Handspring instead of Palm Handheld. Also notice that if you have a space in your HotSync ID, then the name will get modified (at least on Windows). ...