Re(2): [missing-sync-palmos-talk] Sony CLIE T665C and Now Up-To-Date

[Chris Ridd]

On 15/12/04 1:31 am, Scott Gruby <sgruby at markspace.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Evan Evanson wrote:
> 
>>> The Mac Palm Desktop (old Claris Organizer) has always supported
>>> categories
>>> (as far as I remember).
>> 
>> But I don't think that categorization was synced.
>> 
>> The disparity in categorization between Palm Datebook, Palm Desktop,
>> and
>> DateBk leads to some real confusion. My memory is that back in the days
>> of Palm OS 3 and DateBk3, categories didn't sync from DateBk->Palm
>> Desktop, so I wound up dreading having to do a "Handheld overwrites
>> Desktop", because I'd have to re-assign categories to single
>> appointment
>> in Palm Desktop.
>> 
>> Double-checking this w/ my OS 5-running Clié (which I'm still getting
>> comfortable with) leads to some still-tooth-gnashing situations:
>> 
>> 1) The Palm Datebook app still has no categories.
>> 
> 
> This is true for some of the OS 5 devices. The newer palmOne devices,
> such as the T5, T3, Treo 650, etc. have "Calendar" instead of Datebook.
> Calendar (which has a separate conduit called Calendar) supports
> categories. The only conduit/application that has a chance of syncing
> this information is Palm Desktop. I don't believe that any other
> conduit supports syncing of Calendar in its entirety. Other conduits
> can talk to Calendar through a "shim" that palmOne put in, but it will
> only sync the standard stuff, not the category and location
> information.

About the Calendar etc - are there any Mac conduits that sync all the info
in these new databases?

Do any conduits have problems with the bug that MS claim is in the new apps
which could cause data loss when syncing?

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/palm/note/00a.html>

Cheers,

Chris