204685 - Sync after incomplete palm setup deletes addresses in both Moz & Palm

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core Graveyard :: Palm Sync, defect)

Description

[Joe Infla]

Using 1.3 final Win32 and Palm m105,
The following behavior occurred once:

After a full battery drain on my Palm, all information is lost.  When this
happened most recently, I started the Palm and went through only a part of the
setup process before turning it off.  I then performed a hotsync with the
following result:  All addressbooks were deleted except for the Quicklist
category, which contained a dozen entries from various other addressbooks.  All
.mab files were still present in the profile directory as .prev files.

Once before, I did successfully recover from a full battery drain, and the only
known difference between the two events is that I completed the setup process
the first time.

To repeat (best guess):
1. Perform a hard reset or somehow lose all data on Palm.
2. Don't complete setup process on Palm.  (I think I went through pointer
calibration and no further.)
3. Perform a hotsync with Mozilla conduit installed.

Expected results: normal transfer of entries from Moz to palm.
Actual results: lose all entries in Moz; a few random entries transferred to palm.

Comment 1

[Joe Infla]

This bug is at least somewhat related to faulty / nonstandard behavior of older
Palm organizers (dataloss following battery drain should not happen in newer
models), and I'll never have a future opportunity to attempt reproducing this. 
Since no one else has filed a dupe/voted/taken any action, I'm closing the bug
as invalid (not necessarily a mozilla bug).