[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Idle plug-in

[Curt Wittenberg]

I thought I would report back on the issue I was having synchronizing  
iCal on my SDA for the benefit of others who may have a similar  
problem.  I found I could wake up the chronically Idle Calendar  
Events plugin by restarting the computer.  Once I dealt with that I  
implemented the suggestion of Pete from Missing Sync support.  He  
suggested that the problems with my sync  might be related to asking  
it to limit the events to those less than 2 weeks old.  Instead I  
just asked it to synchronize everything.  The process then seemed to  
go fine except that it was synchronizing events going back 5 years (I  
guess I should clean up occassionally).  I killed that process and  
then archived my calendar and eliminated everything over 2 weeks  
old.  After that it went fine.  The only things that failed were an  
occassional recurring event that had no end date (some of those  
worked, some didn't).

The strange thing is that now when I go back to settings and change  
it to less than two weeks old it works just fine.  Furthermore, if I  
restore from my archive so everything back 5 years is there, it now  
works fine. Some of this may be related to the new update to Missing  
Sync 2.5.1.  which I installed in the interim.   Nevertheless, I am  
not complaining.

Thanks to those of you who made suggestions.

Now, can anyone suggest a better Calendar for WM5.  This one is  
pretty basic.

Curt

Begin  message:

> From: Curt Wittenberg <curtwitt at cox.net>
> Date: July 28, 2006 6:15:04 PM PDT
> To: The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile Discussion List <missing- 
> sync-winmobile-talk at lists.markspace.com>
> Subject: Re: [missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Idle plug-in
>
> Jacob,
>
> You seem to be exacly correct.  It didn't show up in the activity  
> monitor whether I double clicked it or not.  The only thing I saw  
> when was missing sync was not running was Missing Sync WM monitor.   
> Missing Sync showed up when it was running.  The same was true of  
> the other plugins.  However, when I reattached the phone it then  
> appeared in the activity monitor and then started running when I  
> asked it to sync.   So now it is not idle.
>
> But, alas, I still have the original problem I was having which is  
> that the synch failed.  I cannot get it to sych my iCal.  Here is  
> the part of the log from when it shuts down.
>
> 7/28/06 17:48:36  MSUI:  Mark/Space Calendar Events:  
> setStatusString string=Reading Events data from desktop
> 7/28/06 17:48:39  Monitor:  Listener: WM5Server:socketAcceptedIncoming
> 7/28/06 17:48:39  Monitor:  Listener:  
> WM5Server:socketAcceptedIncoming while connected to device. Pending  
> rapi=1
> 7/28/06 17:49:03  Monitor:  Listener: Closing socket 16
> 7/28/06 17:49:03  Monitor:  Listener: Closing socket 15
>
> Then it fails and is Idle next time missing sync starts but it  
> wakes up as soon as I start a sych.  I guess I will wait for tech  
> support to reply.
>
> Curt
>
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Jacob Spindel wrote:
>
>> Is it showing up in Activity Monitor? It sort of sounds like it's  
>> not even trying to run. Have you tried just double-clicking it? If  
>> it "zooms open" in the Finder, then it wasn't already running.
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>
>