Re: todo items lost on reboot in opie-todo

AFAIK this is by design to reduce wearing out the Flash on the device.
Myself i share your opinion and hate it when the same thing happens to
me, which is very often.

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:02:38 -0500
"Elijah Lofgren" <elijahlofgren_at_elijahlofgren.com> wrote:

> I have searched to see if any other people have reported this bug I
> was not able to find anything.
>
> Occasionally my iPAQ will freeze and I will have to do a soft reset or
> sometimes it will just reboot itself.
>
> After the reboot I will open the Opie Todo list program and find that
> most of my changes since (it seems like) last time I've rebooted my
> iPAQ have been lost.
>
> I think this may be caused by the Todo program "caching" the the
> todo's and never writing them to disk.
>
> Does anyone know how I could prevent this from happening? I have tried
> opening and closing the todo list program but it does not seem to
> help.
>
> Other programs do not seem to be affected by this problem, Opie
> Checkbook for example.
>
> I am using Opie 1.2.0 and Familiar 0.8.2 and have a iPAQ 3850.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> Elijah
>
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Received on Tue Aug 22 2006 - 01:01:42 EDT