iSiloX not installing on external cards

[Starman]

I can select the external card as a destination for a particular document, but, after conversion, it doesn't show up in the Files to Install folder where the SD card or SONY Memory stick folders are.

Instead they seem to go now to the iSilol folder--and they aren't transfered to either Palm.

I'm using iSiloX 4.29, the latest version. It didn't work with 4.2.5 either, but it did, IIRC, with earlier versions.

(If it matters, I'm also using Mac OS 10.4.3, Palm Desktop 4.2.1, Hot Sync Manager 3.2)

How to solve this would be most appreciated.

[Starman]

Well, if I choose "File Destination" instead of save to external memory card, I can select the external card's folder inside the Files to Install folder. That does the trick and so I'll use that method...

WAIT-- spoke too soon. That resulted in some zero K conversions! Oh, gosh, I feel a headache coming on! :-)

AH, good, that was only OS X not refreshing the folder contents and showing the size... it showed the title, but showed the size as 0 K! Not good Apple.

Still, I must ask

What is the select External Card destination all about??! And why doesn't it work?

[iSilo]

Make sure that you have iSilo installed in the internal database memory of your device. If it is not, such as if you have it on a storage card (including any internal storage voumes), the iSilo Install Conduit will not be called upon by HotSync to do its thing. By default, the files transferred by the iSilo Install Conduit go to the /Palm/Program Files/iSilo directory of the destination card.

[Starman]

Thanks for replying.

iSilo is installed in the internal memory of BOTH Palms! It's always been there... and, IIRC, the external card choice used to work fine, but no longer does!

Any other ideas/solutions?

[kruemel]

Hi,

i often had the same problem with earlier versions of iSiloX, but version 4.29 seems to do conversion right (at least for me). But, I also often had problems using Palm Desktop on Mac OS X 10.4.x and therefore switched to Missing Sync for Palm OS. IMHO, version 5 of Missing Sync is a great improvement over iSync / Palm Dektop and perfectly syncs with iSilo, Address Book, iCal...

Perhaps it is worth to give it a try?

Cheers,
Mario.

[lobster]

I tried converting a local web site stored on an external volume. It appeared to convert properly and says "success". But the resulting file is no where to be found. I tried both external card and internal memory as destinations (separate conversions), but they are no where to be found in ~/Palm/Users/.

The Files to Install folder and the SD card sub folder are empty, as is the "iSilol" folder.

Spotlight reveals nothing.

What's going on?

BTW: I'm using missing sync 5. But I don't see how this would affect the issue either way -- iSilo X (4.31) doesn't appear to be saving the converted file anywhere.

[Starman]

Don't know if this will help... I ran into something similar. It ended up placing the files into an obscure iSilo folder of converted docs somewhere. Which never hot synched.

What I found worked instead was to ignore the Hot Synch destinatiion choices and manually select the folder destination for the Palm's card.

In the properties dialog box for the specific channel, go to Destination, and in the *bottom half* select Add File Destination. (Ignore the top half about synching.) Navigate to the location of your memory card (it's within the Files to Install folder in your User folder). Go within it and then click on the Choose button.

Do NOT select Hot Synch from the top half.

That work around works like a charm for me.

[lobster]

thanks starman. that worked like a charm for me too -- i just selected the folder i actually wanted it to save the document in on my system. i like to install stuff on my expansion card manually anyway so it's always irritating when i have to navigate to ~/Palm/Users/ just to move documents elsewhere.

Unfortunately, the document that was created was 685 MB!! This was from an original web site of 69 MB! I had iSilo scale down images to 64 colors and remove tables and the site was still 10 times the original. that can't possibly be right, could it?

The whole reason I wanted to try iSilo on this site in the first place is that when I just copied the site to my SD card to view in Blazer (which works fine BTW), the size grew from 69 MB to 150 MB because of the FAT32 minimum file size of 32K. With 3000 files that adds up. I was hoping iSilo could bring it back down to more like 70 MB, but instead it ballooned it by a factor of 10.

[iSilo]

Unfortunately, the document that was created was 685 MB!! This was from an original web site of 69 MB! I had iSilo scale down images to 64 colors and remove tables and the site was still 10 times the original. that can't possibly be right, could it?Try enabling "Lossy compression" on "All images" (Properties/Images/Options/Compress/Lossy compression/All images).