I've recently forked out some cash and bought myself a new Palm T|X to replace my aging second-hand Tungsten E. It finally arrived on Friday. Everything was good until on Saturday morning, I tried starting up
PAdict and got the error message -- "The last PAdict session was not terminated properly." I was a little bit surprised, but hey, this happened a few times on my old Tungsten E, so I wasn't too alarmed and pressed the OK button to proceed. I went through a moment of silent shock when instead of starting PAdict as normal, the Palm just rebooted. Trying to start PAdict again yielded the same results.
Googling didn't come up with all too much, with the exception of one user complaining about the
same problem.
QUOTE:
Even PAdict sometimes goes down (that's especially ugly, since its crashes require full reinstallation of the app, although the authors can't understand why).
This pissed me off -- PAdict is the main reason why I use a Palm in the first place. It's a great Japanese dictionary, and, what's better, it allows Kanji-illiterate people like me to get by with it's Kanji recognition feature. It's awesome.
Things were looking rather grim. I wasn't particuarly in the mood for reinstalling PAdict everytime it has a crash. I didn't particularly feel like going back to using the Tungsten E after splurging all this money on a T|X. So off I went, looking through the PAdict bug database to see if this has been addressed or at least reported.
This bug report saved my Saturday. To start off with, it's the sort of bug report any developer dreams of. And while it was reported on a Treo, it was a similar issue.
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... you should be able to fix the problem by deleting the "KJPADScratchPadDB" database using a tool like FileZ.
I happened to have my Palm plugged in to my Linux desktop while I was reading that, and decided to give the work-around a go using
pilot-link:
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pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --delete KJPADScratchPadDB
It worked like a charm... PAdict works again. I ended up installing
FileZ as well, for cases when PAdict tanks while I'm on the road.
