[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Syncing with Outlook (on PC)

[TDefriez at cs.com]

This must have to do with mapping the fields available which is different between iCal/iSync and Outlook - this is the same reason why categories are not transported across - iCal does not support them Outlook does - hence difficult to map directly. MS can give you more details but it seem the mapping corrupts the database and leads to the observed errors - records become corrupt. This does not happen every time so it something in the Outlook record which the Mac side does not like. The only solution I ever found, when I was doing this double sync, was to delete the whole database on the PPC and then resync from Mac - that is use Mac as master and never change things in Outlook and avoid too many changes on PPC particularly like adding categories to any record - this has caused me no end of pain as I use Outlook with Exchange server at work (company policy, due to 'security') and Mac at home. 

On a side issue it would be nice to be able to sync notes - even if done via text file on Mac.


Adam Barrow <mailinglist at thebarrows.com> wrote:

>Can anyone describe what is happening when I try to sync between my PDA 
>(sync'd with MS and my Mac) and then later sync with my Windows PC and 
>it errors out? I know this was mentioned as an issue as far back as 
>version 1, but I have not seen (or found) any discussion of why this 
>happens, how to fix it, ways to work around it etc. Is this something 
>Mark Space is looking into? How soon do they expect it to be fixed? 
>Will this also fix the synchronizing of categories?
>
>Still interested in your 2 cents,
>Adam
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