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

[Michael Griffith]

On 9/2/05 7:22 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit at silcom.com> wrote:
Thank you Paul- you have answered all my questions. A good clean and clear
explanation... My head is less weary after seeing the links so clearly....
Maybe I will go on a hunt for a Tungsten T which did work so well with
entourage... And then they added the damnable .2
Cheers
Michael 
> On 2/8/05 10:55 AM, "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.
>> This is also my experience after carefully following Microsoft's
>> suggestions. 
>> In the face of this I am trying to think my way into a work around. I have
>> purchased Missing-sync, I have also -some time ago- purchased "Sync
>> Entourage Address Book" and "Sync Entourage Ical". I also have "iSync" on
>> board. 
>> Would the following process work:
>> Using iSync: sync Entourage with Apple's "Ical" and "Address Book"
>> - at the same time use Missing Sync's separate Memo programme to sync With
>> Entourage's memos (this is the big question - how to get memo's from the
>> palm onto the desktop)
>> Then use "Sync Entourage Ical and Sync Entourage Address book to complete
>> the cycle. 
> 
> The first part works this way: you use the two "Sync Entourage Address Book"
> and "Sync Entourage Ical" scripts (I'm the one who makes those) to sync
> Entourage's contacts, calendar events and tasks with Address Book and iCal.
> Then you could use iSync to sync the Apple apps to the Palm. Don't forget
> that there are limitations in iCal's AppleScript implementation such that
> todo notes are not scriptable, so if you make notes in Entourage tasks they
> won't make it over. That may matter less to you than the other features you
> will get - I don't know.
> 
> Missing Sync's MemoPad is a separate application, nothing to do with
> Entourage. It's not scriptable, so there's no way I'd know to sync from it
> to Entourage. Maybe Mark/Space might make it scriptable some day, but I
> doubt it's worth their trouble. There's no way for them or anyone else, yet,
> to get into Entourage except via AppleScript - although there might be a way
> for someone to get at the data produced by the Entourage conduit.
> 
> The only way you could get everything would be very messy: you'd have to
> constantly be uninstalling and re-installing the Entourage conduit and iSync
> conduit, synching contacts, events and maybe tasks via the scripts and iSync
> conduit, and notes only (maybe re-doing tasks one-way) via the Entourage
> conduit. I really wouldn't recommend this - too much trouble and likely to
> go wrong.
>> 
>> Despite having a weary head after all this syncing would this produce a
>> clean sync between Entourage and Palm OS 5.2?
> 
> I doubt it. Probably after Tiger and an Entourage update there will be more,
> better options.
>