On 16/7/02 9:14 pm, "Bill Cheeseman" wrote: > I'm still puzzled by the Entourage conduit. Mostly because there isn't any > real documentation -- too much is taken for granted and left unexplained.
Take a look inside the microsoft Office folder, you'll see a folder called 'ReadMe'. Look in there and there's an item called 'Handheld Sync Read Me.html'that will answer m ost of your questions. > > 1. What exactly is "Synchronize" supposed to do in the case of missing > items? (For example, if an item exists on one machine but not the other, > does it always create a matching item on the machine where the item is > missing -- and never delete the item on the machine where the item exists? > This would represent a bias in favor of existing items that ought to be > spelled out in the documentation. Or is it supposed to depend on which > machine was used more recently than the last sync? Or what?) All this depends on your conduit settings. You can set it up so that 'Entourage overwrites Handheld', or 'Handheld overwrites Entourage' - in these cases, the contents of the first are copied to the second in a one-way transaction. The default conduit setup is to synchronise. Here, if an item exists on one side of the sync and has never been on the other, it will be copied across so it appears on both sides. If an item is deleted from one side, after the next sync it will be deleted from the other side. To complicate things, if an item is modified on one side, then modified again on the other side before a sync is carried out, the conduit does not know which version to keep, so it will copy both versions to both sides and you will get a duplicated event/contact/whatever. This is a safety mechanism to prevent loss of data. > > 2. What exactly is "Synchronize" supposed to do in the case of edited items? > (A bias in favor of existing items doesn't help, here. How are "conflicts" > resolved?) See above. > > 3. What exactly are the two directional settings supposed to do? (For > example, if an item exists on the destination machine but not the source > machine, does it delete the item on the destination machine? If two items > have the same name but differ in content, does the designated source always > replace the designated destination?) See above > > 4. How does the conduit decide if items are the same or different? By name > only? By an 'invisible' ID number, and a modification date. > > I'm used to file synchronization utilities that explain how they work (for > example, how "conflicts" are resolved), so that I can design my own usage > patterns with confidence. The Entourage conduit leaves me guessing. > They do explain it (very well, as it happens, but unfortunately, the instructions aren't easily found. I only found the readme file because I checked the install log to see what went where. -- Barry Wainwright <http://www.barryw.net> "Clothes make the man -- naked people have little or no influence in society." Mark Twain -- 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/>
