[missing-sync-palmos-talk] e2sync- any addition to Berkowitz Sync-Entourage/Address/Ical??

[Harry Flaxman]

Where can I find this rewritten new conduit?  I looked
at the website that the details are written in, but no
software?

Harry\

--- Michael Griffith <m.griffith at mary.acu.edu.au>
wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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