Solved problem of 'clogged conduit.'

[steve kunkel]

I'm not 100% sure this is the fault of iSiloX, and I haven't tried to replicate it, but this is what I think happened. I installed iSiloX on my Win XP PC. By default it wants to send eBooks to the palm (T5) via hotsync, but I like to use FileTransfer so I can put them all on the SD Card. Therefore, I switched the default destination from Hotsync, to a folder in My Documents. Here's where (I think) the problem came from ... I created the eBook (actually it wasthe Wikipedia article on Global Warming) and iSiloX was ready to sync it, but then I changed the prefs to send it to My Docs. I did this AFTER the book was set to hotsync, but BEFORE I actually hot synced it. Again, I'm not 100% sure, but this seems to have sent the Global Warming eBook into some kind of purgatory. Every time I tried to hotsync, my Palm would say "Syncronizing Global Warming," and it would just get stuck. What made this strange, is that opening the PalmOne Quick Install Tool indicated that there was nothing there to sync. Even more strange is that I uninstalled iSilo from my Palm *and* uninstalled iSiloX from my PC, but *still* it would hang everytime on "Global Warming." THen I desided to REALLY take care of matters and I uninstalled, then reinstalled the entire Palm Desktop bundle ... STILL this ghost "Global Warming" eBook was trying to sync... Since this is my home PC, and I'm so busy at work these days, this has been going on for *months*! I wanted to 'try everything' before posting here on the forum, so the last thing I tried, which seems to have worked, was to scour my C drive. In an obsure file at location C:\Program Files\palmOne\<myname>\Install, low and behold, there it was, "Global Warming.pdb" Deleting it directly from the C drive seemed to do the trick.

Just thought I'd document this incase anyone else ever has a similar problem.

-steve