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

[Michael Griffith]

On 10/2/05 11:27 PM, "Harry Flaxman" <harryo43 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Here is the address: http://www.e2sync.com/


> 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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