Hello -- Please help if you can...

[unclepogy]

Hello -- I'm new to the Forum. My Handle is Unclepogy, and I'm glad to find such a nice Clie' site as this. I'm 48, I live in Hendersonville, NC, and before I was disabled I was in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering career field. So -- I am mainly used to PC's of one sort or another... I recently purchased a Clie' NR70V/U PDA, it's the older one with the 66 MHz processor. I have added the 128 Meg. Memory Stick card, the white one for MP3's... I don't use it for business app.'s so much anymore, but mostly, I have loaded tons of games on it -- that I play in my extended bed-ridden stays. My Question is: or I should say Questions are:
Are there any book(s), Web Sites etc that I can get or log onto that will explain the File/Program-Database relationships, File management and directory structures for the Clie? I find that some of the programs won't work if they are loaded strictly on the Memory Stick Card. Other programs will, and they must have a way like in PC's to read the path-name of the locations of the programs support files, i.e. Databases... I also would like to clean up the directories and old unused files that are just taking up space. Any ideas. Thanks a Million in advance... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year... Uncle

[Fitzer]

Uncle

not being particularly interested in the tech of my device I have only dabbled in the file workings, if you haven't already I would suggest that you get hold of a copy of McFile or Filez from palmgear, both of these will allow you to explore the directories on the stick.
For more in depth understanding of the internal structures I would guess that Palmsource would be your best first call, www.palmsource.com

HTH

Ian

[unclepogy]

Appreciate the help... I'm gonna write to Santa, and have him bring you extra gifts this year... And not the coal either, the good stuff. Thanks Again. Uncle : )

[JohnKes]

There are also books at Amazon.com about programming for Palm:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-5199828-8694439

[Scott777]

I use PI Direct and it lets you put entire programs on the stick, whereas I've noticed Clie's built in "Launcher" seems to leave traces behind in ram.

BTW, check out www.memoware.com for free Ebook readers and 1000's of ebooks to download for free. If you're going to be bedridden for a while, catch up on all the classics. And be sure to also download MobileDB. It lets you create spreadsheet and database files from Microsoft Excel, and people create them and share them at the memoware site. Stuff like Sports schedules, Phone lists, or just about anything you can think about making into a database is there.

[Fitzer]

Thanks Uncle....Dear Santa, I would like.......ooh, a whole heap of stuff!

[JohnKes]

You can sign up with AvantGo.com to download current news every time you Sync. That way you can read up when you are away from your computer. They have links to newspapers, magazines, etc.

I get Bloomberg, CBS MarketWatch, SJ MercuryNews Movie Reviews, and Road&Track. I appreciate this service most at the airport and on the plane. Coach seats are now almost too narrow for real magazines.

[Tandaina]

Mobipocket also offers news when you synch. I get Fox News and the Sydney Morning Herald (just for kicks fun to read a foreign paper)

[JohnKes]

Definitely different points of view. Do you see much "America the bully" type of stuff on the Sydney Morning Herald?

[Scott777]

PIdirect lets you save your limited memory in ram and it lets you run most programs off your memory stick, plus it works pretty quick, which is why I stopped using PowerRun. Download PIdirect here:

http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/PiDirect-VFS-2001-10-5-palm-pc.html

The evaluation copy of PiDirect II only supports up to 10 files in the "\Palm\PiDirect\" directory, any files beyond 10 (alphabetically) will be ignored. If the $30 (for the full version) is too much for you, I got around that limitation by just creating new directories on the memory stick specific to those applications. For instance I created a directory called WEB for all my browser files, another for STREETFINDER ( a map program that uses tons of memory), and another called EBOOKS for my ebooks. The only problem with that is when you want to use those programs on those directories, you have to change the setting in PIdirect's control panel. I ended up liking the program so much, I finally registered it.

ps: the serial # is tied to your HotSync name, so I can't help you there...:(

[JohnKes]

Scott777,
You got the eval version of PiDirectII to read different directories? Mine does not.

[Scott777]

What version are you using? I can't remember what version I had, but I got 2.0 when I registered it. But remember, I said you have to change the directory PI direct looks for when it loads. You have to launch PI direct and then manually change the directory from their control panel. First you disable the program, change the directory and then re-enable the program.

[JohnKes]

Ah ha! The trick is that you registered it. That's how to get PiDirect to look into different directories. The trial version doesn't let you do that.

[Scott777]

No, I'm pretty sure I was getting version 1.6 ir 1.8 to do it. I was just getting tired of changing directories in the PIdirect control panel. I figured the program was worth the $30 to avoid all that hassle. Try looking around the web for an older version to do that and follow my above instructions, otherwise spend the $ on the new version, you won't be disappointed.

Because of this program I still run with 4mb of ram constantly in my Clie. The only program I haven't got it to work right with is Mobile DB (since they're not "read only" databases, meaning you can make changes to the files on the Clie, but then it puts them in ram), although they're promising memstick/smartmedia support with the next version.