[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Howto: migrate a Treo 650 from Windows to Missing Sync 5...

[Nik]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:00 AM, David Taylor wrote:

> Currently I am syncing a Verizon Treo 650 with Palm Desktop/Hotsync  
> on my work laptop, which runs Windows XP SP2.  I would like to  
> transfer the sync to Missing Sync 5.0 on my G5 tower running Tiger  
> (10.4).
>
> My impulse is simply to install Missing Sync on the G5 and then  
> hook up my Treo and press the sync button.
>
> Do you think that it is that simple?  Do you have any advice before  
> attempting this?

I've done this two step a few hundred times, moving my preferred  
syncing from Mac to PC to Mac to Mac... Here's the steps:

1) Sync your Treo one last time on your PC, just to make sure  
everything's up to date.

2) Decide what PIM apps you want to use on your Mac. Set up  
appropriate conduits for them. Same for any other tools (Splash  
whatever -- I use Web COnfidential instead of SplashWallet, but I  
think SW has a Mac version) which sync with your device.

3) Back up your Treo to a memory card, or use the Backup conduit or  
whatever else to make sure you have all your stuff and can RECOVER.  
The goal of this is to be able to get your Treo back to functioning  
if anything goes wrong.

4) Now decide whether you want your Treo to overwrite your Mac or  
your Mac to overwrite your Treo.

5) If the latter, import all your Outlook/PC stuff into your Mac. If  
the former, skip to step 6.

6) Back up your PIM documents on the Mac.

7) Set all your conduits to Mac overwrites Treo or vise versa, as  
appropriate.

8) Sync.

9) Verify everything's working. If not, restore backups and start over.

Good luck!

--Nik



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