Re: Re: DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync
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Bug Reports Board (Del Msg) Title: Re: Re: DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync In Reply To Posted By: Mike Fischer Title: Re: DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync E-mail: mikef@fischertrust.org Posted By: Elio Date: 12/21/2000 at 05:50:54 Date: 12/12/2000 Recent Posts • IIIxe dim with dim displa • Software to use with keyb • Battery Extender • database Software • Battery Extender • Wallpaper for SJ22?? • TG50 - playing mp3 i hear • TG50 Home and Graffiti bu • downloads • seiko's InkLink More ...     Message: datcn20.dll FIX: Hotsync crash during datebook mail trnasfer: failure DATCN20.DLL I have had the same problem on two occasions. Searching the net for 'datcn20.dll' you will find lots of German sites reporting/fixing the failure. The cause of the problem appears to be that on a previous hotsync, possibly due to an interuption of transfer, a slightly corrupted datebook file got stored on your PC. Often, if not always, this then has a date in it which is very early. This then interacts with a bug in hotsync which can't handle this date and crashes. The fix to try is very easy and worked fisrt time for me. It looks complicated but it isn't ! 1. using palm desktop look at earlier entries in your datebook, and chose a date before which you have very few or no entries e.g. 1995. All entries before your chosen date will get deleted - see below. 2. close palm desktop. 3 double click on your time/date icon on your PC and change the current date to 1995. 4 open palm desktop note that it now thinks that 'today' is sometime in (e.g.) 1995. 5 select the datebook . Then click on 'tools' at the top to get the 'tools' drop down menue. 6 click on 'purge events' - a dialog box will offer you to purge events older than 1 week ( from your artificial date). 7. OK this - this will clear your datebook of all entries before this date, including hopefully the entry with a corrupt date. 8 close palm desktop. 9 change the date on your pc dack to the real date. 10 try a hotsync. If this does not work, in Germany they can email their datebook file to Palm support, to have the corrupt entries removed. Palm have a set internal (i.e. not of release quality) utilities to do this with. I don't lnow if Palm support in any other country will do this. Is this message offensive or in violation of this board's policies? If so report it by clicking here.

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DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync - Ari - 12/05/2000 Re: DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync - Elio - 12/12/2000 Re: Re: DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync - Mike Fischer - 12/21/2000   <<< You Are Here Re: Re: Re: DATCN20.DLL error during HotSync - Elio Franchi - 01/18/2001