[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Palm Desktop to Apple-Mark/Space apps?

[Marc Bizer]

On 8/3/06 at 4:39 PM +1000, MikeG wrote:
>The bulk of my data is in Palm Desktop. Some of it is in Address 
>Book. A small amount in iCal. But I understand that proper procedure 
>is you have to have all your information in Address Book and iCal 
>and overwrite the Palm on the first sync. Has anyone got any tips on 
>how best to do this? Is it as simple as exporting all your Palm 
>Desktop items as their various .vcf, .vcal formats?

That will definitely work for the addresses (although the categories 
won't be preserved), but the simplest way to get everything into iCal 
is simply to use the iSync conduit with Palm Desktop.

>What about the memos? They go that Mark/Space Memo app, right? How?

You set that conduit to do "Handheld overwrites Desktop"

>Then I suppose it's important to get your iCal data into the 
>calendars, and make sure your Address Book categories are as you 
>want. But since I've got categories in Palm Desktop, isn't there 
>some way to preserve them as I transfer to the iCal/Address 
>Book/Memo app?

I don't think so.

	--Marc