Possible Datebk6.0a pD bug

Hi,

First of all as a new member I should introduce myself. I am a
freelance writer in the IT space (among other htings I write a weekly
column for ComputerWorld Online on network issues and a blog for
ComputerWorld Online titled "The PDA Guerilla"). My experience with
PDAs and pocket computers goes back to 1989 and the first edition
Casio BOSS. I have used Palm PDAs since the original PalmPilot and
presently use a Tungsten T3 with approximately 35 third-party apps
including DateBk6, ShadowPlan, SuperNames, WordSmith, CalorieKing, and
SnapperMail.

I updated from Datebk5 to Datebk6 a few weeks ago (and wrote a "first
look" review in my blog, by the way). Overall I have had a near
flawless experience so far with the Datebk6 beta. This morning,
however, I encountered what may be a bug. This takes a little explanation.

I actually have two Tungsten T3s. At any given time I use one as a
production machine and hold the other as a backup. Since I only use
one at a time both have the same hot sync name. A week or so after
buying the Datebk6 license I switched machines, something I do
periodically as an exercise. This involves doing a hard reset on the
backup machine, a full backup of my production machine to SD using
BackupBuddy VFS and a full hot sync of the production machine,
followed by a restore from SD into the backup PDA and a hot sync of
that PDA to get everything into it. I then left my former production
machine as it was as a backup.

Because I did not do a hard reset on the backup machine, I still have
Datebk6 in it. This morning I wanted to clean out all the old to dos
that had accumulated in it. I did this the lazy way, by opening
Datebk6 and deleting them one by one. About every fifth one I
experienced a crash and warm reset. This happened four times, so it
definitely had a pattern to it. It was not a major problem and I did
not experience any data loss.

I have not experienced anything like this on my present production T3,
possibly because I don't let finished To Dos accumulate on that
machine, so I have not had to delete a large number of them at once.
Or this could be something peculiar to the one PDA, of course. 

So I just thought I would report this for what it is worth. Hope this
helps in the refinement of a terrific product, a real advance over
Datebk5 (which I also really liked, until i saw Datebk6).

Bert Latamore

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