[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Palm and PPC

[Donald Stidwell]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:38 PM, John Prout wrote:

> Hi, does anyone use BOTH a Palm and Pocket PC on the same Mac? I  
> mean can i run BOTH Missing for Palm AND Missing Sync for PPC on  
> the same Mac?
>
> I know it sounds extravagant but someone else in the house has a  
> Palm TX and i have a PPC
>
> I know there must be some gadgeteers out there that have all kinds  
> of devices. Anyone using both?
>
> Cheers
>

I own both a Pocket PC (hx2415) and a Palm (T5) and have run both  
simultaneously on my Macs. I am not running both at the moment  
because I've upgraded my hx2415 to Windows Mobile 5, which MS doesn't  
support yet, but will return to running both when MS supports WM5.

I'm using the latest version of both the Palm and Windows Mobile  
products.

For me the secret was to clear everything on the Mac (I was using  
Entourage), sync one of the devices. Then clear everything on the  
other device and then synchronise that device to Entourage with the  
appropriate MS software.

So - clear out everything in Entourage. Sync T5 (which contains all  
my data) to Entourage using MS for Palm. Clear out everything on the  
Pocket PC (I used Pocket DB Explorer) and then sync to Entourage with  
MS for Windows Mobile. Now all devices have the same information.

I found maintaining sync to be mostly trouble free across all devices.

Don