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

Harry Flaxman harryo43 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 11 08:05:19 PST 2005


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

> 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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