[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Entourage and Tungsten T3

[Michael Griffith]

On 9/2/05 7:02 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit at silcom.com> wrote:
Thanks for your response Paul. Can I read between the lines that the line of
Sync from Palm via Missing-Sync to iCal and Address Book and then via your
two Entourage syncs would be the best solution. I am heartened to hear that
you suggest that if Entourage is the only place to enter data you won't lose
anything... But I had an experience this week where my Palm failed and then
a sync via MissingSync led to a loss of most of my Entourage address book...
So does your suggestion imply that one should default to mac/entourage
overrides Palm.. ?
Cheers
Michael 

> On 2/8/05 11:39 AM, "Chris Ridd" <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/2/05 6:55 pm, Michael Griffith <m.griffith at mary.acu.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Microsoft has specifically said that while there is some limited
>>> synchronization possible between Entourage and the "newer" palms, Palm OS,
>>> after 5.2 changed its category names thus making a clean sync impossible.
>> 
>> Is that the "data loss" problem mentioned on
>> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/palm/note/00a.html> ?
> 
> Yes. Basically, Entourage just goes on synching the data which Palm OS 4
> permitted - so no second postal address, no category for calendar events,
> etc. The "data loss" would come about if you make any modification on the
> Entourage side and then sync back - the second postal address would be lost
> from the Palm (and it would never have synced to Entourage in the first
> place). If you use Entourage as the only place you enter data, you won't
> lose anything from Entourage.
> 
> Palm (neither PalmOne nor PalmSource) ever notified Microsoft  Mac Business
> Unit in advance that they were changing their  syncing formats in OS 5.
> MacBU never found out until after the new Palms with OS 5 were released,
> which was far too late in their cycle for Office 2004 to do anything about
> it except prepare that alert. It's a real shame, since Palm obviously did
> communicate with Microsoft Outlook, and Entourage uses the same fields as
> Outlook does, or enough of them. Pam evidently didn't even think of
> notifying MacBU. (I think that on the Windows/Outlook side, syncing with
> Palm may be outsourced to another company : there's big business in it.)
> 
> I would really hope that now that Mark/Space Missing Sync has officially
> taken over Mac synching to Mac, and must have some sort of arrangement with
> Palm, that Palm will at least notify Mark/Space in future when they're
> planning a change to their OS, and that Mark/Space in turn would notify
> Microsoft and other desktop PIM application makers as well as Apple so that
> accommodation can be made in good time. It's in everyone's interests to do
> so, and Mark/Space is certainly nothing if not on the ball. I still worry
> about Palm though...