[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: missing-sync-palmos-talk Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7

[Michael Brashier]

missing-sync-palmos-talk at lists.markspace.com on Monday, August 7, 2006 at
2:00 PM +0000 wrote:
>> I've managed to get all my events, tasks and contacts into palm  
>> desktop but have been unable to get them into iCal or Address Book  
>> using iSync. My goal is to use Missing Sync, Treo 650 and iCal,  
>> Address Book and Mark/Space Memo Pad. I can't get the data any  
>> further than the Palm Desktop though. This despite hours of phone  
>> support from Apple and Palm.
>> Could be that I'm trying to do too many things at once: just  
>> switched to Mac from PC and successfully brought all email and  
>> contacts from Outlook to Entourage. Could not get Entourage to sync  
>> with the Treo using the Entourage built-in sync. So I decided to  
>> switch to MacMail, iCal and Address Book with Missing Sync but I  
>> just can't get it set up! If I can just get the Palm Desktop data  
>> into the Mac apps I think I can follow the Missing Sync directions  
>> in the Manual.
>I may be misunderstanding your question but. if not, I would sync the  
>Palm Desktop to the Palm first (using the HotSync Manager) and then  
>disable the HotSync Manager and enable Missing Sync and MS's conduits  
>for the Apple apps ... and then the next time you run Missing Sync it  
>should upload the data in the Palm into the empty Apple databases  
>(iCal and Address Book).

It has been awhile since I did this, but when I switched from Palm address
and calendar to iCal and Addressbook, I exported the data from Palm as
vCard and vCal and then imported it into iCal and Addressbook that way. 
It sounds like you have put a lot of work into this, and maybe have
already done this, but you may want to start over, export everything from
Palm as vCard and vCal (should be export choices under File menu), import
it into iCal and AddressBook (again, import options under File menu) and
then sync to your Palm device.  Make sure you follow MS instructions so MS
activates and not HotSync when you push the sync button.

Michael Brashier, DVM, Dip. ACVIM   Ph#: 662-325-1448
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