HotSync™ with Mac OS X
To HotSync™ a Web Confidential database you need a Macintosh with Palm Desktop 4.0 or higher. We recommend Palm Desktop 4.2.1, which can be downloaded from the Palm Web Site:
<http://www.palm.com>
The Conduit requires Web Confidential for Mac OS version 2.2 or higher. If you are still using an older version, please download the new version and convert your file to the new Web Confidential file format.
<http://www.web-confidential.com/notes37.html>
For HotSync™ to work, your password file on the Macintosh should be encrypted. The database on the Palm should have a passphrase defined, use the same passphrase as for your Macintosh password file. The database on your handheld should not be encrypted when you start HotSync™.
To install your desktop data on the Palm, do the following:
- Use the Confidential Installer to copy the Confidential Conduit to the right place on your hard disk.
- Start Palm Desktop and the HotSync menu select “Conduit Settings ...”.
- Double click on “Confidential”.
- Select “Macintosh overwrites Handheld”.
- Click the Set button and select your Web Confidential password file. The Web Confidential password file should be encrypted.
- On the Palm start Web Confidential by tapping on the Confidential icon in the Application Launcher.
- Tap the menu silk button and from the Encryption menu and select “Change Passphrase...”. Enter the same passphrase as used for the desktop file. To HotSync™ the Web Confidential database on your handheld should not be encrypted. If you have set the preference “Auto Lock At Exit and Power Off” unlock your passwords, put the device into the cradle and press the HotSync button on the cradle.
- Put the Palm device in the cradle and push the HotSync button. Your Web Confidential password file will be installed on the Palm.
After installation of your password file the Conduit will automatically change its settings back to “Synchronize”.
If you change a record on your handheld or your desktop it will be synchronized at the next HotSync™. Note that if you changed a record on both the desktop and your handheld you will end up with two records after a HotSync™ because the HotSync™ manager in that case can never know which data you want to preserve.
You can sync more than one device to the same desktop file. Select the same file in the Conduit settings of both devices. To transfer the passwords from device 1 to device 2 HotSync the first device. Set the Conduit settings of the second handheld to “Macintosh overwrites Handheld” and HotSync.
Web Confidential and BackupBuddyNG
A previous version of Web Confidential had an incompatibility with the Mac OS version BackupBuddyNG. This has been solved in Web Confidential for Palm OS version 1.2 and later. If you use BackupBuddyNG please make sure that in Web Confidential for Palm OS the preference “Autolock After a HotSync” is set. Then the Confidential Conduit will encrypt your passwords before BackupBuddyNG will make a backup. If you don’t use the COnfidential Conduit please make sure that your passwords are encrypted before doing a HotSync. You can use the preference “Autolock At Exit and Power Off” to do this automatically.