[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Fwd: Re: [Mark/Space Support #544941]: Missing Sync for PalmOS

William Laven wmlaven at platinotype.com
Mon Aug 15 07:24:11 PDT 2005 

What are the "cron" routines. people often speak of. I run disk  
permissions periodically, but is there more. I had OnyX and Cocktail,  
but they did weird things when I upgraded to Tiger and didn't work  
correctly (but maybe there are newer versions??).


On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Robert Powell wrote:

> I have at least a suggestion(s). You need to upgrade iCal, the  
> latest version is 2.0.2. You didn't mention your iSync version but  
> the latest is 2.1 (build 88 I believe) and you should have this as  
> well. Realistically, you should run all the cron routines, rebuild  
> your permissions, test for corrupted preferences, possibly run  
> DiskWarrior, yada yada yada. Then you should seriously consider  
> upgrading to Tiger (OSX 10.4.2) to make sure everything is as up to  
> speed as possible. iCal 2.0.2 and iSync 2.1 may require Tiger, I  
> can't remember. All the maintenance routines I mentioned (except  
> DiskWarrior, which is possibly the best MacOSX utility ever  
> developed but not free) are available in the free utility MainMenu.  
> You can find it at versiontracker.com.
>
> Sincerely,
> ChemBob
>
> On Aug 15, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Burv wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sent this in to support at markspace dot com, and
>> have since realized a couple things.  It seems to be
>> actually two problems, but I'm quite a bit more
>> concerned with ical/isync not working.
>>
>> In a nutshell, I'm noticing that when I sync, isync
>> always gives this error message (see email below), and
>> creates multiple duplicate entries in Ical each time.
>> This happens even when I follow the instructions at
>> http://www.markspace.com/support/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=2391
>> to erase and re-sync, but still the same thing.
>> Also, I checked in ical, and the record was there,
>> although it must have been a corrupted one, as it was
>> an event that I know I didn't put in ical or the PDA;
>> rather, it was a combination of different records.
>>
>> Anybody notice the same thing, or have any thoughts on
>> how to fix it? I'm running ical 1.5.5 (v670), MacOS
>> 10.3.9, and missing sync 4.0.5.  I have a treo 650
>> (verizon).
>>
>>
>> --- Burv <bowei_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:31:09 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Burv <bowei_99 at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Mark/Space Support #544941]: Missing
>>> Sync for PalmOS
>>> To: support at markspace.com
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I also forgot to mention that, when I added a bunch
>>> of
>>> channels in avantgo, which caused me to run out of
>>> available space on the PDA.  So, I deleted some
>>> channels and was able to sync successfully (avantgo)
>>> once, but after that, it keeps prompting me for my
>>> password each time I open avantgo on the treo.  I
>>> enter my password, click submit, sync, and that's
>>> when
>>> I get missing sync not being able to talk to the
>>> server.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Tried this multiple times, and each time, I get the
>> following error message in Isync.  I've tried quitting
>> and restarting the applications, restarting the
>> system, forcing slow synchronization, setting isync to
>> ignore anything older than 1 month (since I figured it
>> may have been that isync was getting too much data),
>> but I still get the same message - that it fails.
>> This is what it says below.  I checked in ical, and it
>> does refer to an actual ical item.
>>
>> Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:34 PM
>>  |iCal| Could not add record '<CFDictionary 0xb1d250
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{type = mutable, count = 9, capacity =
>> 17, pairs = (
>>     3 : <CFString 0xa45d1870 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncDescription"} = <CFString 0x5126740
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{contents = "From epinions
>>   .  Creative labs video blaster webcam nx pro
>>   .  Logitech quickcam pro 3000 webcam"}
>>     4 : <CFString 0xa45d1bc0 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncICalendarUID"} = <CFString 0x15cdb0
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "12C77E2C-7F1F-11D9-BB6D-000A95AF3F7C"}
>>     7 : <CFString 0xa45d1a10 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncStartDate"} = 2005-02-18 19:30:00 -0800
>>     8 : <CFString 0xa45d1a80 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncSequence"} = <CFNumber 0x511cc90
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{value = +4, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
>>     9 : <CFString 0xa45d1ae0 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncDuration"} = <CFNumber 0x5123160
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{value = +7200, type =
>> kCFNumberSInt32Type}
>>     11 : <CFString 0xa45d1880 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncSummary"} = <CFString 0x51265c0
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{contents = "TNT at daniel and dianas"}
>>     13 : <CFString 0xa45d1ad0 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncPriority"} = <CFNumber 0x5126810
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
>>     15 : <CFString 0xa45d03f0 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncRecordType"} = <CFString 0x5126860
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{contents = "NSSyncICalEventRecordType"}
>>     21 : <CFString 0xa45d1a00 [0xa01c00e0]>{contents =
>> "NSSyncStatus"} = <CFNumber 0x395d710
>> [0xa01c00e0]>{value = +3, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
>> )}'
>>  Conduit iCal generated exception
>> NSSyncConduitException: Could not add record '{
>>     NSSyncDescription = "From epinions\n  .  Creative
>> labs video blaster webcam nx pro\n  .  Logitech
>> quickcam pro 3000 webcam";
>>     NSSyncDuration = 7200;
>>     NSSyncICalendarUID =
>> "12C77E2C-7F1F-11D9-BB6D-000A95AF3F7C";
>>     NSSyncPriority = 1;
>>     NSSyncRecordType = NSSyncICalEventRecordType;
>>     NSSyncSequence = 4;
>>     NSSyncStartDate = 2005-02-18 19:30:00 -0800;
>>     NSSyncStatus = 3;
>>     NSSyncSummary = "TNT at daniel and dianas";
>> }'.  Can't commit item .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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