There are no problems if you use only Entourage. There is only a problem if
you then sync with Palm.
--
Paul Berkowitz
On 8/7/01 11:18 PM, "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ouch! Maybe I *won't* switch over to using Entourage for my calendaring
> needs. :-( I frequently need to edit single instances of repeating events
> (either canceling meetings, or moving them to a different day or time, or
> tweaking the alarm of a specific meeting to be earlier or later).
>
> Does this problem only occur when doing the editing within Entourage, or
> does it happen when doing it on the Palm and then doing a sync??
>
> --Mike
>
>> Well, the problem is fixed, with a great deal of help from David Cortright
>> and Paul Berkowitz. It's an old Erage problem that I should have remembered
>> and known better. I'll restate it here for emphasis:
>>
>> DON'T EDIT A SINGLE INSTANCE OF A RECURRING EVENT!!!!!
>>
>> You're playing with fire if you do. You may still be able to synch for a
>> while--meanwhile you're generating a bunch of duplicate entries that you're
>> not even aware of. Then one day--bang! You'll freeze up, and the cleanup and
>> re-creation will be very painful and time-consuming.
>>
>> I'm really hoping that the team is working aggressively on fixing the
>> recurring events problems in Erage. Usage is inconvenient at best, and
>> dangerous even under the most intuitive and obvious procedures.
>>
>> Thanks to the list, and especially David and Paul, for saving what could
>> have been days of recovery time. Even with a full backup, this was not an
>> easy problem to recover from.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> on 8/7/01 8:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 18:02:12 -0700
>>> Subject: Re: Palm Synch freezes
>>>
>>> Do you have the very latest Hot Sync software from Palm? I found that
>>> downloading the most recent version solved a similar problem I was having.
>>>
>>> One way to test: Move the "Backups" folder out of your Palm->Users->Username
>>> folder, and try a hot sync. If it works you have the same problem I had.
>>>
>>> On or near 8/3/01 11:46 AM, Barry Rosenbaum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>>>
>>>> All of a sudden, whenever I attempt to synchronize my Palm with Erage, I
>>>> get
>>>> a hard freeze of my Mac during the Date Book/Calendar synchronization. I've
>>>> done typical and advance rebuilds of the database, and soft-reset the Palm
>>>> several times, but the problem continues.
>>>>
>>>> I even tried using "Entourage overwrites handheld" in Conduit settings, and
>>>> it wiped out most of the data on the Palm and then froze the Mac.
>>>> Fortunately it appears that all of the data is still in Erage, but I can't
>>>> get it into the Palm.
>>>>
>>>> I have BIG memory assigned to the HotSync manager (20 MB) and the Conduit
>>>> Manager (100MB). It worked fine until this week.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions, anyone? Please?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Barry
>>>>
>>
>>
>
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