From: Dan (dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com)
Date: Sun Jan 15 2006 - 07:54:09 PST
it's the Horror! My Newt popped up some very old weekly appointments
> when turning over to 2006. Ah well I thought, just go a few years
> into the future in Dates & tell the Newt to delete it all before
> 2016. But now the Newt will not stop throwing reminders at me for the
> eversame repeating appointment! And it goes *brrrrp* all the time due
> to the reminder sound! I had to bury it in the basement because it
> was unbearable! What to do?! I need this Newt operational... will I
> just have to click away some 520 reminders? What if it doesn't stop?!
> I know I could brainwipe it, but I'd loose a weeks worth of notes...
Hi Oliver,
Sorry to hear about your nutty newton. Have you tried putting the date
back to last year then move your notes to storage or backup? Then you
could do a brain wipe. Another method might be to put the date back to
last year then delete the dates soup from storage. This should clear
the issue. If it doesn't that means that the error is in your alarm
soup. And to get to that you usually need to use a soup editor, unless
you are using a different alarm package like more info which saves its
reminders to a different soup. Action names also uses its own soup
which could have been corrupted. Also alarmed and dangerous has its own
soup as well.
BTW the main default alarm soup is called SystemAlarmSoup. If you get
it to stop doing the alarms every few minutes (setting the time back
should do this) you can go into it with a soup editor and if you see a
lot of entries (like the 520 you are seeing), delete the soup. That
should fix your problem.
Also you don't need to click away 520 reminders, if you do a reset or
pull the power then restore it, it will forget about all those
reminders. This would also be a good method if you can't get it to
change the time due to constant reminder slips popping up, just pull the
battery for a hour or two, till the supercap discharges. It should
forget the time/date and you should be able to work with it without
constant reminder slips (well if you have a MP2x00 anyway......which I
assume that is what you are using).
Hope this helps.
-Dan
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