[missing-sync-palmos-talk] MS5 with Treo 600 takes 4-9 minutes?!

[Scott Gruby]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Cooper Marcus wrote:

> I'm a new owner of Missing Sync 5 for Palm OS, which I'm using with  
> my Treo 600 on a 1.5ghz PowerBook running OSX 10.4.2. I'm snycing  
> with iCal and Address Book (all software is latest versions) over USB.
>
> My first few syncs took a very long time, which didn't surprise me,  
> but now my test syncs are still taking far longer than the HotSync  
> application that MS5 replaced.
>
> If I sync, then sync again without changing anything on the Treo or  
> on the Mac, my sync time is at least 4 minutes, and sometimes up to  
> 9 minutes! This is with only the following conduits turned on:
>
> Backup (backup)
> Install (install)
> Mark/Space Contacts (synchronize)
> Mark/Space Events (synchronize)
> Mark/Space Tasks (synchronize)
>
> Is 4-9 minutes a typical time for syncing? Even if nothing on the  
> handheld or the Mac has changed? This seems really slow!
>

It really depends on how much data you have in Contacts, Events, and  
Tasks. If you have thousands of entries (especially in Events and  
Tasks), it could take a long time. If you can, clean out iCal (there  
is an option to delete old events/tasks). How many contacts, events,  
and tasks do you have? Sync Services takes a long time to go through  
changes. If you which computers, it will take even longer as it has  
to do a slow sync and compare each record.

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Scott Gruby
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