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

[Michael Griffith]

On 9/2/05 7:22 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit at silcom.com> wrote:
Hi Paul- I am the one who started this thread on problems with Syncing
Entourage to recent Palm devices. I have just read about e2sync (
http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/now_isync_ical_addressbook_and_e
ntourage/). From what I understand this seems to be no different to the two
conduits that you wrote (Sync Entourage Address Book and Sync Entourage
Ical) only here they seem to be bundled into one package. Or am I wrong: is
this the software package we have all been waiting for? 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.
>