- Re: Restoring files to a different 5mx/Backing up several machines

- Re: Restoring files to a different 5mx

- Re: screen (mis)callibration and Corisoft DCP

- AW: The Digest V1 # 920_3

- RE: How to avoid time change-induced backups?

- Psion 3a to Macintosh

Date: 19 Apr 2006 23:51:22 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Restoring files to a different 5mx/Backing up several machines

Nigel Elbourne wrote:

> I had already bought a new 5mx in anticipation. Unfortunately PsiWin > won't recognise it and won't allow me to restore my latest back up.

Have you tried using PsiWin's Machine Manager (Start/Programs/PsiWin)? That should allow you to delete the old machine name, then enter your new machine's name. After deleting the old name, you should be able to use the same name for the new one, if you wish.

Studio 70 wrote:

> BUT can we back up both machines to the one PC or should one be
> backed up to the PC and the other to the S7 or Laptop?

Don't see why you can't backup both machines to the PC. I backup my netBook and my 5mx to my PC. You just have to use a different name for each machine. As an example, in my C:\Psion folder I have 2 sub-folders, 5mx and netBook. In setting up my backups, I directed the 5mx to its folder, and the netBook to its folder.

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Keith
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Date: 20 Apr 2006 05:43:04 +0100
From: David Ford <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Restoring files to a different 5mx

Nigel,

I have only had to do this with data files but I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work with the system files too.  Where you could run into trouble is with any licensed software that has a license key linked to the machine ID.  Anyway ...

The problem is that PsiWin uses the machine ID to recognise connected devices.  Your new machine is not your old machine as far as PsiWin is concerned (even if it is a direct replacement) so the new machine isn't allowed to 'see' the old machine's files on the PC.  To get around this do the following:

1 - Connect the new machine to the PC with PsiWin and let PsiWin detect that it is a new machine with a different ID from the last one.  Now PsiWin should think that you have 2 5mx's (even though one is dead).

2 - Now find the directory on the PC where your old PsiWin backups are stored.  Usually C:\Psion\MachineName unless you moved it elsewhere.  Open up a window for that directory and you should see a backup folder for the Psion 'Internal' drive (C:) and any CF card that you may have.

3 - Now open up the PsiWin window to the new Psion and copy/drag all the folders and files from the PC window to the Psion window and your machine should be as good as new.

If I have missed anything then I am sure someone smarter than I will make up the deficiency :-)

David
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Date: 20 Apr 2006 05:43:11 +0100
From: David Ford <address truncated>
Subject: Re: screen (mis)callibration and Corisoft DCP

Hi Bas,

Not DCP I am afraid.  I assume that you are using a S7 or NetBook ???  If so, you are experiencing a very common problem usually attributed to the screen cable connection.  A temporary fix that works (for a while) is to press down firmly two or three times on the machine name label just above the '6' and '7' on the keyboard.  This is supposed to reseat the cable connector and/or rub the contacts together making the machine behave once more.  However, long term, the answer is to disassemble, clean and reseat the connector.

David
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Date: 20 Apr 2006 09:24:11 +0100
From: Norbert Fernkorn <address truncated>
Subject: AW: The Digest V1 # 920_3

Dear Nigel,

Normally the Psiwin should recognise the new 5mx.
He see the new serial number and ask to use the same backup.
If Psiwin do not recognise the new 5mx, maybe there is something wrong with the 5mx.
Do the new 5mx appear at the win§$%s explorer?

Sorry for no better answer
Norbert

> Unfortunately PsiWin won't recognise it and
> won't allow me to restore my latest back up. I have tried
> renaming the directory, and a hard reset, all to no avail.
> Is there a simple way of "fooling" the program - and which
> end should I try: the Psion or the PC?
>

Date: 20 Apr 2006 22:28:54 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: How to avoid time change-induced backups?

emai7s <address truncated> wrote :-

}I thought I was starting an incremental backup of my RevoPlus }the other day, but PsiWin went ahead and did yet another
}(unnecessary) complete backup. I guess the change to summer }time confuses PsiWin.

No it's not PsiWin, it's Windows.

}How does one avoid time change-induced Psion backups? I think }someone once posted details about a technique to achieve this, }but I seem to have misplaced the instructions.

Don't use Summer Time features on your Psions.  Just change the clock by one hour.

Psions can keep track of using your computer in different time zones, so that when you could fly Concord and arrive before you left, the last version was recorded as the last version.  Windows can't do this, however, I've heard that a recent version of Windows has been fixed.

PsiWin uses the file date/time stamp to decide if a file has been updated.  When Summer Time is used the time on the PsiWin backup file is changed by one hour (by Windows).  So every six months the date/times are different, although the file has not been changed.  I discovered this years ago and found that an unchanged file was kept in the archive sets every six months.

Alan Morris.

Date: 21 Apr 2006 00:01:48 +0100
From: Eric Lindsay <address truncated>
Subject: Psion 3a to Macintosh

How do you connect an old Psion 3a to a recent model Macintosh?  I 
seem to recall Psion used to sell an MCLink or PsionLink (?) package 
very much older style Macintosh (maybe as recent as G3 models).  
Seems to me PsionLink must have been a Psion 3a "soap on a rope" 
serial cable without a 9/25 pin D connector, but instead with a min 
DIN connector to fit a Macintosh modem and/or serial printer port.  
Plus Psion software to run on MacOS.

Recent Macintosh don't have any serial or IR port, so there is no way 
to directly connect.  Is there actually a USB to miniDIN serial 
converter designed to connect to the (hypothetical) Psion cable 
above?  Or do you use a USB to serial converter (with 9/25 pin RS232) 
plus a Psion "soap on a rope" serial adaptor?  Can't imagine the old 
Psion software running on Mac OS X, but does anyone know whether the 
old software runs under "Classic" or whether the Macintosh needs to 
boot under MacOS 9.2.2 instead of OS X?