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Q: will my Handspring LifeDrive PDA work after the Yosemite upgrade?

I have a Handspring LifeDrive PDA, I know the software will not work with Lion,, will it work with Yosemite?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 5:18 AM

by Roger Wilmut1,Solvedanswer
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This presumably uses the Palm Desktop; this hasn't been updated for years and won't run on anything higher than Snow Leopard (because it's PPC). I'm afraid all Palm devices are now well obsolete unless you can continue to maintain Snow Leopard, perhaps by maintaining a separate Snow Leopard volume or partition to boot into (at least as long as you can keep an older Mac running - you can't do this on a new Mac). Though it's theoretically possible to run Snow Leopard Server under emulation in Parallels, I doubt the background syncing processes will work this way.

 

You will need to start thinking of how to move away from Palm to more modern devices: this article may help -

 

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/palmtomac.html

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 5:57 AM

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Q: will my Handspring LifeDrive PDA work after the Yosemite upgrade?

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  • by QuickTimeKirk,Helpful

    QuickTimeKirk QuickTimeKirk Mar 26, 2015 5:43 AM in response to malahood
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    Mar 26, 2015 5:43 AM in response to malahood

    If it will not run in Lion is will also not run in Yosemite.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,Solvedanswer

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 26, 2015 5:57 AM in response to malahood
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    Mar 26, 2015 5:57 AM in response to malahood

    This presumably uses the Palm Desktop; this hasn't been updated for years and won't run on anything higher than Snow Leopard (because it's PPC). I'm afraid all Palm devices are now well obsolete unless you can continue to maintain Snow Leopard, perhaps by maintaining a separate Snow Leopard volume or partition to boot into (at least as long as you can keep an older Mac running - you can't do this on a new Mac). Though it's theoretically possible to run Snow Leopard Server under emulation in Parallels, I doubt the background syncing processes will work this way.

     

    You will need to start thinking of how to move away from Palm to more modern devices: this article may help -

     

    http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/palmtomac.html

  • by BobHarris,

    BobHarris BobHarris Mar 26, 2015 8:02 AM in response to malahood
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    Mar 26, 2015 8:02 AM in response to malahood

    MissingSync

    <http://www.markspace.com/>

    has sync'ing software for Palm based products.  I've used it for my Sony CLIE (Palm based) PDA up to and including, Mavericks.  I do not see any reason why it would not work on Yosemite.

     

    But ask them, and I'm sure they will tell you.