[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Adventures in Syncing

[Jeff Gehlhaar]

Yeah, add to this a device like my Samsung i730 that syncs over the air to
my exchange server and you very quickly move a simple mistake into a train
wreck!

-- Jeff



On 9/23/05 3:28 PM, "Daniel Beiderwieden" <daniel.beiderwieden at gmx.de>
wrote:

> what about an option to choose which data is prefered???
> i had this option in software products to sync my siemens mobiles
> years ago....this would be nice to securely test the new betas...
> 
> Am 23.09.2005 um 21:17 schrieb <jbenavrom-markspace at yahoo.com>
> <jbenavrom-markspace at yahoo.com>:
> 
>> If nothing else, Missing Sync had been quite an
>> adventure. Every time I sync, or I should say, attempt
>> to sync, I get a different result. I don't think the
>> same thing has happened twice in a row in over a
>> hundred attempts. Sometimes, it deletes every contact
>> on my device. Other times, it duplicates every entry
>> on my calendar. Then I try a new beta and it will
>> changes things on my computer that shouldn't be
>> changed. Like when supposedly it fixed the problem
>> that more than one child in a contact listing wouldn't
>> sync. That got fixed. It just deleted all but one from
>> the address book on the Mac!
>> 
>> If nothing else, I sure have learned to make backups!
>> I don't send in the logs because it would take up all
>> of my time just uploading all that info since each one
>> is different and complex.
>> 
>> Every now and then, somehow I get a proper sync. I
>> just wish that would happen regularly.
>> In all my years of computing (dating to CP/M), I've
>> never seen such uppredictable behavior in a program.
>> 
>> One really big suggestion: My favorite backup program
>> is Synchronize Pro X. It has one feature that should
>> be part of every backup or sync program, but I've
>> never seen anywhere else. It SHOWS every change it's
>> going to make and lets you overrule any or every one
>> of them before it actually does anything to your data.
>> 
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