[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Initial thoughts/questions on Missing Sync 5.0

[Kevin O'Shea]

I just joined the list, and can't read posts from earlier today, so  
apologies if there's any repetition in here.

First of all, fan-friggin-tastic update! I have been so disappointed  
in the Apple iSync conduit for so long, I'm giddy at not having to  
put up with it any more. That said, I've hit a few small issues, and  
a few of the new conduits have really left me wishing they did just a  
touch more:

- All my event alarms are getting set to '0 minutes before', ignoring  
their settings in iCal (usually 15 minutes). Anyone else seeing this?

- I subscribe to a read-only ics calendar, which causes duplicate  
events to be created on the Palm with every sync, unless I change the  
conduit setting to 'Desktop overwrites handheld'. This may have  
something to do with this particular subscribed calendar, as I know  
it's published by something other than iCal.

- The Photo conduit lets you scale images to be no larger than 'width  
x height'. While this is a useful setting (I suppose), what would be  
far more useful to me would be something that let me set a specific  
value for the smaller of my two dimensions. I want all my photos to  
have 320 as the smaller of the two dimensions (and the other  
dimension being as large as needed) so that all the pictures fill the  
screen.

- The Photo conduit does't actually sync its contents. It just dumps  
all the combined content from the albums into a single folder on the  
Palm. While I recognize that a single photo could live in more than  
one album (making true 'syncing' difficult), I'd really prefer  
something closer to a one-way sync, so I could keep things organized  
(on the Mac), and items I pulled out of the album (on the Mac) would  
get deleted on the Palm.

- Likewise, the iTunes conduit files all the audio in a single  
folder, with no organization.

- I have an (old?) Media conduit listed in my conduit list, which  
I've turned off. Wondering where this came from.

Thoughts? Similar experiences? Suggestions?

Kevin