- Serial to USB, Backup, Psion 5mx Pro,

- Re: The Digest V1 # 912

- Re: Toolbar Confusion

- Weird Toolbar

- Opera basics

- RE: Agenda Problem and pIBeam for S7

- RE: Toolbar Confusion

Date: 4 Apr 2006 14:01:25 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Serial to USB, Backup, Psion 5mx Pro,

Answer to: Alan Morris

Re.: Serial to USB - Interesting, with me it was the other way around. I bought a converter from another make (forgot which one) which did not work and than bought a Belkin which did work without any problems ... .

Answer to: Toddrick

Re.: Backup - Just a very wild guess. It could be that by coincidence he has got a file with exactly the same name already on his PC and than Psiwin recognises this and tells him the file is open as the error. I seem to remember vaguely having such a problem once upon a time.

Answer to: Austin

Re.: Psion 5mx Pro - Interesting stuff, keep it coming !  I still find my mBook great for use in meetings, switching on and off at will to write something down.


Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 4 Apr 2006 16:55:59 +0100
From: David Ford <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 912

Martin wrote:

"How about he prints to a PDF file (using PDF+) and then can print that at his leisure on a PC or whatever?"

How can this be done?  I use PDF+ and it is described as a PDF reader.  It doesn't seem to have any ability to create PDF files.  Also, in the print options there is no PDF printer to enable the creation of PDFs.  Being able to create PDFs on the Psion would be great, but I don't see how it can be done.  Or have I got hold of the 'wrong end of the stick' here.

Date: 4 Apr 2006 18:01:22 +0100
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Toolbar Confusion

Hello Susan,

> I did a soft reset on my 5mx, and now the bottom row toolbar is all messed
> up.  ... Now I'm wondering if this is happening because a while ago I
> restored the 5mx from the Revo that I was using temporarily during a
> repair (but I would have noticed it by now, I would think).  Any ideas?

Yes.  All Psions store their "silk screen" apps (which you call the "bottom
row toolbar") as part of the prefs file used for the Extras bar.  Therefore
restoring the preferences of one Psion model on another will cause the
silkscreen to get seriously messed-up!  But the prefs file will only be read
after a soft reset, hence your surprise.

Luckily I have written a little program which allows you to edit the Extras
bar, including the silk screen row.  You can download it here:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3031

You can read about it here:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55541&page=2&pp=15

Any problems, feel free to email me.  Digest readers can get my email
address from the web page email.cshandley.co.uk , although it ought to be
included in the download readme (assuming that I included one!).
--
Chris Handley

Date: 4 Apr 2006 20:36:21 +0100
From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
Subject: Weird Toolbar

Hi Susan,

>I did a soft reset on my 5mx, and now the bottom row toolbar is all messed up. 
>The "Word" icon gives me Contacts.  The "Sheet" icon gives me Agenda.
>The "Contacts" icon gives me email.  The "Email" icon gives me Time.

Get rid of c:\System\Shell\shell.ini and do a soft reset immediately after.

>Now I'm wondering if this is happening because a while ago I restored the 5mx from the Revo

Yes, because you copied that file too. You obviously didn't do a soft reset after the restore. That's ER5, resets aren't very common...

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

Date: 4 Apr 2006 21:14:59 +0100
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: Opera basics

I've finally got wi-fi set up on my MalayBook, after a long period in which my Cisco AiroNet card crashed the MB whenever I tried to connect. I had to take my courage in both hands, because I needed to hard-reset the MB, which I'd never done before. In the end there were no problems – well, apart from one or two heart-stopping moments when it looked as if the MB wouldn't reboot – and now I'm in wireless heaven. Thanks, Itamar, for the advice that a hard reset was needed.

Now I've got a couple of basic Opera questions. (Being a MalayBook, the Opera version is of course fixed at v3.62(1.04).):

– Is it possible to save the text on a Web page as a decently formatted Word document? At present I either keep it as an Opera file or have to slog through the Word version converting tabs to paragraph ends.

And is it really impossible to edit bookmark names? At present I've got several bookmarks called 'Main Page', which isn't helpful.

Date: 4 Apr 2006 20:41:52 +0100
From: Austin
Subject: RE: Agenda Problem and pIBeam for S7

To: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Agenda Problem

>If before a soft reset I click on the agenda silkscreen button, nothing happens still, but if I then look at open programs, it shows not only "Agenda", but "agenda".<

I once had a similar problem only I had about 6 "Agenda" entries in my list of open programs.  I actually run multiple agendas (5 in total) but they all have unique names so should show up as "Agenda Agenda", "Agenda Personal" or "Agenda Shared" etc.  One day I had 6 "Agenda Agenda" entries on the open programs list but when I tried to access any of them all I got was a "Not Found" message.  This happened after synchronisation.  My routine is to leave multiple Agenda files open all the time and backup, followed by sync with Outlook on two separate computers and I suppose the Psion must have got confused one day.  Anyway, I closed all the Agenda files, made a copy of the Agenda file (for safety's sake) and re-synchronised.  All was OK.  So my suggestion is to try synchronising with Outlook to see if you can "rescue" your appointments that way.  As an alternative, or if that doesn't work, I always find that the program called "PC Agenda" will allow me to extract any Psion Agenda entries to view, edit and save.  The save only works in Series 3c format but you can then convert it back to S5 using PsiWin.  It's an incredibly useful program to have anyway because, apart from anything else, it lets you print your year planner at full A4 size!  If you haven't got it, get it here: http://www.maison.demon.co.uk/pcagenda.htm

To: Jack

>Mine ("pIbeam") reads 130F
Want it?<

Yes please. Have sent a private message.

Austin

Date: 4 Apr 2006 22:28:15 +0100
From: Psion Flexi <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Toolbar Confusion

Hi Susan

I run www.psionflexi.co.uk and have seen this many times whilst repairing Psion's.  It is usually caused by a crack in the touch screen or your flexi being about to fail.  Hope that helps.

Regards

Paul Wright

BSc MEng PGDip CEng MIEE
www.psionflexi.co.uk <http://www.psionflexi.co.uk/>
www.revobattery.co.uk <http://www.revobattery.co.uk/>
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