OK, I've held off using my Handspring Visor until Entourage had a conduit. Now it does, and I've used the Visor successfully -- sort of. I promptly rediscovered the eternal truth that synchronization of two machines isn't easy.
After the initial one-way sync from Entourage to the Visor, I went out to do errands. I took the Visor along and dutifully deleted To-do, Note and Calendar items, and modified others. Then I returned home and did a two-way sync, hoping that Entourage and HotSync Manager were smart enough to make intelligent decisions about which items were more recent as between the Visor and the Mac. No such luck. So now all the items I deleted have been reinstated on the Visor instead of being deleted from Entourage, and altered notes have been restored on the Visor to their original contents. Fortunately, new appointments, To-dos and Notes were successfully added to Entourage. So, what's the best way to handle deletions and edits on a Visor or Palm in practice? When departing and returning does one always launch HotSync Manager and set each application to a one-way sync in the right direction? This is awkward, to say the least. The Conduit Settings window is hidden away in a HotSync Manager menu without even a toolbar to make it easy to bring up, and once it's open I have to double-click the Entourage conduit and set all of its options manually. I see that I can write an AppleScript to open the Conduit Settings window. That's a help, I guess. But I still have to double-click the Entourage conduit and do all the rest manually. There doesn't seem to be any way to save multiple sync settings as separate documents. Am I overlooking something? And there's the lack of multiple categories per to-do or note item, the lack of categories at all on calendar events, and, worst of all, the fact that syncing from the Visor to Entourage causes all of my Entourage multi-day events to magically turn into single day events. Basically, it appears to me that if I want to use a Palm device together with Entourage, I have to cripple Entourage. (I understand that this is a Palm issue, not a Microsoft issue, but still....) -- Bill Cheeseman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA http://www.quecheesoftware.com The AppleScript Sourcebook - http://www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com Vermont Recipes - http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes Croquet Club of Vermont - http://members.valley.net/croquetvermont -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
