Paul, Finally got around to trying out your "Sync with Palm" scripts this weekend. The scripts basically work, and I am going to find them very, very useful.
However, as I feared, since I have been unable to hot sync since starting into the beta program back in September, it is taking me hours and hours to catch up on my older data. I had to go through things both on the Visor and in Entourage X, marking "sync" category on the things I want to sync. I've encountered a number of problems along the way, and I am still not done. I was able to sync EfX to E2001 with one (big) problem, and then to hot sync my Visor to E2001. So, I think my Visor is fairly current with everything! First, I located all the contacts in X that were modified since October 15 (anything earlier and I got almost everything; I'm not sure why, probably something I did on the 14th. No doubt some script that modified every record in the contact database.) There were about 205 of them. I selected them all and tried "Sync from X." It ran for a long, long time, and finally, after I went away and came back hours later, I found it had died with and Error 1 (I believe that's out of memory). I don't know whether it synced all the contacts or not; the ones I've spot-checked seem to have been transferred to E2001 all right. I hot synced at this point with my Visor, so now E2001 and the Visor are in accord with one another. Next, I tried to sync the other way: 2001 to X, to transfer anything that was on the Visor but not in X. I selected a bunch of notes, contacts, and events in E2001 (using the Sync and Sync Delete categories, and the "For Sync" custom view). There were perhaps 60 items. On the first attempt, selecting all of them, the script Sync from 2001 began to run and then, apparently, just hung up doing nothing. I could not see anything happening; no disk noise. I switched back and forth between the applet and Entourage, saw spinning beach ball in the applet and that's all. I waited about an hour; no results. So I Cmd-Period'ed in the applet and it quit. Nothing in Entourage had changed; apparently, no items were processed. I tried again, selecting just the first 22 items or so. That run completed all the way, and the synced items were gone from the list when I switched back to E2001; the script had removed the sync categories from the items it processed, I presume. I selected the remaining 38 items and did another run. It seemed like something was happening, although it was taking a long time. Finally, I switched to the applet and found an error message: "Variable contactList is not defined". When I clicked on the "Edit" button, I got an error about text insertion not working because the length limit would be exceeded. That appeared to involve appending info from some contact to some variable...I'm not sure. But I think that, somehow, your script, given my data, is running into some kind of limit and dying. The bad part is that when I switched back into Entourage 2001, most of the items in the custom view had disappeared; the sync category had been removed from all the items processed. However, since the script didn't complete, none of those items made it into EfX! And I'm not sure exactly what ones they were. I thought that, perhaps, if I ran the script again on a single item, it would find the existing data and append the one new thing to it, and then continue with the import into EfX. Alas! It seems to have just imported the one new item; I don't know what happened to the interim data from the first run. Is there a temp file somewhere I could somehow get imported into X? Or one I should just delete? It seems I'm going to have to repeat the laborious process of scanning through my contacts, tasks, and events and flagging things with the appropriate category. At this point, I'm ready to give up on trying to recover older items, and just go on with new ones as they occur. You may (or may not) want to look into the size limits I've apparently run into. As far as I'm concerned it isn't necessary...if I notice a missing event, note, contact or task in EfX, I'll just flag them one at a time for sync. There does not appear to be any problem with small numbers of items. I'm very impressed with the work you've done on these scripts, Paul! It occurs to me that they can answer the need several people have voiced to be able to sync E2001 and EfX...except for mail, of course. But people <could> do that part manually with Advanced Find and drag and drop of folders. Knowing my own air-headedness, I'm sure that I will forget to give things the "Sync" category, or will just delete them instead of giving them the "Sync Delete" category. I may be moved to write a script that finds all items modified since Date X and insures that "sync" is appended to the subject or title. That won't help with deleting things, though! So, I pray that Palm gets its a** in gear and that Microsoft gets a hot sync patch out to us all real, real soon. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
