Bill, as I've said elsewhere (being a concerned Visor owner myself), there are known problems with syncing to a Visor, vs a Palm brand device. See Palm's web site about the Palm Desktop conduit; they specifically include only Palm devices. When I wrote them they said they don't support Handspring devices. When I wrote Handspring, they said that the conduit or driver software isn't reliable with Visors, and that when they have a version of Palm Desktop that works with Visors, they'll post it on their site. I don't know if that means Handspring is working on the software, or if it is just wishful thinking. Meanwhile, I would not rely on syncing Entourage with a Visor.
I also know someone at Microsoft is looking very specifically into this problem because his wife owns a Visor! So, with conjugal pressure on the topic, there is some hope... On or near 7/16/02 9:24 AM, Bill Cheeseman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > 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 > -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
