[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Missing Sync will not configure Palm Conduit 1.2

[Pekka Nikander]

Jan,

> 5) Select “Sync this Palm OS Device” – OK <<<< (stops here-jc)

That's in Missing Sync, and the exact phrase is
"Enable iSync for this Palm Device".

> 6) Click the icon associated with your Palm OS device <<(nada)
> 7) Configure the settings for iCal and Address Book <<(nope)

And that's in iSync.

But I guess you figured that much out.

Unfortunately there seems to be a bug in MS 4.0 that (at least
sometimes) causes the Palm to appear with a garbled name in iSync.
According to my experience, that doesn't prevent it from working,
though.  Hence, go ahead and configure the Palm looking thing
in your iSync, even though its name is garbage.  BTW, it's a good
idea to slow sync for the first time.  In that way you don't end
up with duplicate entries which you may get otherwise.

If you want to fix the name of the Palm as it appears in iSync,
you can manually fix it by editing, using a text editor, the
files PalmConduitDefaults.plist and PalmConfiguration.txt
in the directory

   /Library/Application Support/SyncService/<your-account-number>/

where <your-account-number> is the Unix internal uuid of your
account, typically 501.

In PalmConduitDefaults.plist, the name is in the string

		<key>kNSSyncDeviceName</key>
		<string>[name-here]</string>

In PalmConfiguration.txt, the name is in the beginning of
the second line:

# Apple iSync Palm Defaults file
[name-here]::...

It appears that the latter name is what iSync displays.
I don't know if you really need to change the first name,
i.e. in PalmConduitDefaults.plist, but fixing it does not
seem to hurt.

--Pekka Nikander