- My first attempts at Infrared syncing failed as I had previously indicated to this mailing list. However, cradle based syncing worked fine for the most part. After completing the cradle based sync, IR syncing seems to work (but this is not fully tested yet), with one exception.
- As I was syncing the first time, I had trouble with the amount of memory being used. I found that doing and Entourage overwrites handheld for the calendar greatly reduced memory usage. Warning – if you have not selected syncing private records, this will delete any private records on your Palm.
- Getting the calendar to properly delete old calendar entries on the Palm was difficult. Following the suggestion on the mailing list, I avoided the choice All for future events. That seemed to allow the conduit to delete the old events. Once I go the configuration that allowed deleting old calendar events, the IR sync again failed. I am beginning to think that there is some sort of capacity limit in the IR sync – if too many records change the IR sync will fail.
- After getting the Palm synchronized, I found many of my contacts when opened needed to be saved even though I had not made any changes (that is, double clicking to open will open the contact in a window indicating that the contact has been changed, and a save must take place before the window can be changed). Contacts for which this situation occurs will NOT be found by the matching engine when typing the first few characters of a name while addressing new mail messages. This was rather disconcerting at first as you can imagine; however the contacts are in the database, they just need to be opened and saved to be usable. I estimate that this affects roughly half of my 900 contacts – so I’ll probably have to figure out a script to open and save all my contacts, then do a cradle based sync.
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Eric Hildum
