Palm Tungsten T5 manual Program memory and the internal drive

CHAPTER 5 Moving and Managing Info Between Your Handheld and Your Computer

Did You Know?

The internal drive saves information on your handheld, including information in the program memory, even if the battery drains completely—none of your information is lost. Simply recharge to access the information again.

Tip

To view the complete list of Palm OS applications on your handheld, go to Applications and select HotSync. Open the Options menu and select Conduit Setup. All of the applications listed on the Conduit Setup screen are Palm OS applications located in your handheld’s program memory.

Program memory and the internal drive

Your handheld contains two types of storage: program memory and the internal flash drive.

Program memory Your handheld includes 55MB of program memory for Palm OS® applications such as Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and Memos. Information in the program memory is updated during synchronization. For example, if you enter contact information on your computer, you can synchronize to update the info in Contacts on your handheld, and any future updates to the info are included in synchronization.

The info for each Palm OS application—for example, individual contact entries—may be stored in your handheld’s program memory, or it may be stored on your handheld’s internal flash drive. You can view and work with this information from within the application itself. You cannot, however, view any info stored in program memory directly using Files or palmOne™ File Transfer.

Internal flash drive The 160MB internal drive works similarly to other standard USB removable drives. You can store any type of file, folder, or application on this drive on your handheld. View and access the contents of the internal drive using the Files application on your handheld, or view the contents using File Transfer (Windows) or Drive Mode (Mac) on your computer. You can manage items on the internal drive in various ways: copying, moving, deleting, renaming, and so on, using File Transfer (Windows) or Drive Mode (Mac), or Files on your handheld. You can also use File Transfer to save the contents of the internal drive to your Windows computer.

Another method of storage that you may already be familiar with is an expansion card. You can view and access files or folders on an expansion card using the Files application on your handheld, and manage your files on a card using File Transfer or Drive Mode.

You can also access the files on the internal drive or on an expansion card by opening the corresponding application and browsing to the file.

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