[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Fwd: Re: [Mark/Space Support #544941]:
Missing Sync for PalmOS
Robert Powell
rpowell at powellassociates.com
Mon Aug 15 08:18:56 PDT 2005
Brad has discussed this to some extent before I had a chance to post
this. The crons are Unix maintenance routines from all the way back
in the mainframe days. Some of them run daily, some weekly and some
monthly. Indeed OSX runs the crons automatically if your computer is
on. But many people are on laptops that they close or often desktop
users turn their computers off at night (or they go to sleep), which
is when the crons run (I don't remember what time of night). So
utilities are available to run these crons (via a GUI, such as
MainMenu menu command "Run Maintenance Scripts" -> 'daily' or
'weekly' or 'monthly' or 'all) when you tell them to run. There is
also thefsck -f command to repair directories (you have to hold down
command S during startup) that can repair many types of file system
problems. I believe Apple has instructions for this in their support
forums. And if all else fails (and occasionally for routine
rebuilding of the "wrapper") DiskWarrior can't be beat. Unfortunately
there are no maintenance-free or bullet-proof operating/file systems
yet. Unix comes closest but still requires a little knowledge and work.
ChemBob
On Aug 15, 2005, at 10:24 AM, William Laven wrote:
> 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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