Well, I have finally installed enough nifty stuff on my 8mb Palm IIIxe that memory is becoming a problem. I have a few apps that I seldom use, and would like to swap them in and out as needed. But when I look in the Palm\...\Backup folder on the PC, I see a bunch of data files that don't show up in the INFO list on the Palm. It seems like the Palm has some magic way of organizing data files by application ... but it does not tell me what goes with what ... which makes removing and re-installing apps a bit problematic, since I am not sure which files go with which apps, or exactly what gets deleted if I delete an app from the Palm. Anyone out there understand all of this? I would like to understand how it works.

CharlieP

Yea it does. If you delete a palm application it takes all of its data, preferences files with it. Good for getting rid of an application. Normally if I temporarily get rid of an application, I just use the original install to put it back.

But I also use T'Catalog to see what I have on my palm this includes the hidden “type” field which is how the palm knows what files go together.

Thanks Allen, that was exactly what I wanted to know. I installed the T-Cat app and soon found an orphan file left over from a deleted app, so I got most of that 38 kb back It looks like Palm OS uses the Type and Creator fields to link data files to each app. I like the way T-Cat allows you to delete specific files, this should be very useful.

CharlieP