[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Tungsten C and Missing Sync --
STILL PROBLEMS
Scott Gruby
sgruby at markspace.com
Thu Jun 9 08:36:28 PDT 2005
On Jun 9, 2005, at 7:23 AM, William Laven wrote:
> David et al,
>
> I have been able to sync, but two things happen that I need to fix.
>
> 1) In Address Book, the info synced is incomplete. For the vast
> majority of entries I get the person's name and email address only.
> Occasionally there are phone numbers, far less often the street
> address. How do I get all the address info (ie street address, etc)
> from Address Book to transfer?
>
Make sure the phone numbers are all listed as HOME numbers and that
street addresses are listed as HOME addresses. This is a limitation/
bug in the iSync Palm Conduit. Apple has not fixed this bug as far as
I can tell.
> 2) Repeating iCal events are synced as repeat events, but if I have
> a 5 day long event in iCal, it only syncs over the title of the
> event and places it on the first day. For example, I have "Photo
> Conference" in iCal from Jun 15-20 and it only syncs "Photo
> Conference" on the first day, the 15th. How do I fix that?
>
Since there are different notions of repeating events from iCal to
the Palm, the iSync Palm Conduit from Apple doesn't sync this. You
should get in the habit of changing all multi-day events to events
that repeat over multiple days. For instance, your 5 day event should
be replaced with 1 event that repeats for 5 days. While this is
cumbersome, this is how it works. Again, an Apple issue.
> As noted in an earlier email, when I went to /Library/Application
> Support/Palm HotSync/Conduits/ there are no conduits, from Apple or
> otherwise. Furthermore, there is no "Disabled Conduits" folder. It
> still syncs, but are the problems above due to the absence of the
> iSync conduit in the folder? The iSync conduit appears in the
> Missing Sync pane and I enabled Palm.
>
You must have conduits in that directory; note that this is not your
User's Library folder, but /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/
Palm HotSync/Conduits/.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:13 PM, David Neil wrote:
>
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> What you should do is hard reset the device, that will get rid of
>> the things
>> that are there that you can't use. Then go to:
>>
>> /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Conduits/
>>
>> And find any of the Palm Desktop Conduits (which are: Address,
>> Calendars,
>> Contacts, Datebook, Memo, Memos, Tasks, and ToDos) and move them to:
>>
>> /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Disabled Conduits/
>>
>> In the conduits folder you should have Apple. That is the iSync
>> conduit.
>>
>> After your hard reset you should launch the sync again. When you
>> do Missing
>> sync should ask you what device it is. I suspect that previously
>> you had
>> associated this device with the same name you had used for the
>> previous
>> device. What you need to do is make this a NEW device and assign
>> it a new
>> unique name.
>>
>> Then after that is complete you should look at Missing Sync and
>> see the
>> iSync conduit. As I had said previously, double click on the iSync
>> conduit
>> and check the box to enable iSync for the device.
>>
>> Now when you sync it will sync with iSync.
>>
>> You should NOT get anything restored from the previous device. The
>> most
>> important thing here is that after your hard reset you give the
>> device a
>> UNIQUE name. Until a sync the device will not have a device name.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Neil
>> Mark/Space, Inc.
>> Technical Support
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/8/05 10:21 PM, "William Laven" <wmlaven at platinotype.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I did as David suggested, but when I went to iSync it said "To
>>> finish
>>> setting up your Palm OS device to work with iSync you need to select
>>> the iSync Hot Sync Conduit in the Hot Sync Manager." Well, I don't
>>> know where the Hot Sync Manager is. I opened Missing Sync and iSync
>>> conduit appears and I double clicked it like he said and said
>>> "Enable
>>> Palm OS," but it still doesn't sync.
>>>
>>> This is my very first sync with a new Palm Tungsten C. Should the
>>> Backup be set to "Restore from Backup" to get iCal and Address Book
>>> onto the Palm? Anything else?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:16 AM, David Neil wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Bill,
>>>>
>>>> You do not need to install Palm Desktop. You can simply install
>>>> Missing Sync
>>>> and then to install the iSync conduit, launch iSync, click on the
>>>> 'Devices'
>>>> menu, and choose the option to Enable Palm OS Syncing.
>>>>
>>>> Once you have installed the conduit, when you open Missing Sync
>>>> double click
>>>> on the iSync conduit and check the box to enable iSync for the
>>>> device.
>>>>
>>>> Now when you launch the sync, by pressing the Sync button on the
>>>> cradle,
>>>> Missing Sync will launch and iSync will launch and you will sync
>>>> with iCal
>>>> and Address Book.
>>>>
>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> David Neil
>>>> Mark/Space, Inc.
>>>> Technical Support
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/8/05 1:41 PM, "William Laven" <wmlaven at platinotype.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm about to go buy a Palm Tungsten C and will then buy the latest
>>>>> Missing Sync for Tiger.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I'm wondering is whether I can not load the Palm software at
>>>>> all, but only Missing Sync's conduit in order to sync my handheld
>>>>> with iCal and Address Book. If someone wouldn;t mind explaining
>>>>> what
>>>>> is the best way to set this up I can do a clean install of
>>>>> whatever
>>>>> is necessary for a better chance of success.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Bill
>>>>>
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