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Resolving transfer conflicts

About conflict resolution

You can use advanced options to specify how conflicts are resolved when you

transfer information between your Newton device and your computer.

A conflict occurs when key fields of information in your Newton application

match key fields of information in your computer’s application, but not all

fields are the same. For example, your Newton application and your

computer’s application might have the same person listed with the same

company, but not the same phone number.

The Newton Connection Utilities determine there’s a conflict because the

information in the key fields for the person’s name and company are the same

for both the computer and Newton device. Because other information in other

fields is not the same, in this case the phone number, the utilities must then

determine what to do with the conflicting information—whether to keep the

phone number from the computer file or from the Newton device.

You can determine how the Newton Connection Utilities handle conflicting

entries. For example, if you usually make changes on your Newton device and

always want to keep those changes or transfer them to your computer files,

you can select a conflict resolution that always keeps your Newton application

information. In this case, the information on the Newton is said to win,

because it always replaces conflicting information on the computer file.

Likewise, you can also have your computer win by selecting a conflict

resolution which keeps the changes in your computer files. Conflicting

information is then updated from the computer file to your Newton device.

You can also have the utilities keep all information, adding all conflicting

entries to your files so that nothing is lost.

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Apple Newton Connection Utilities User Manual Page 66