On 9/9/02 1:20 PM, Jan Martel deftly typed out: > 2. - Manually enter the events on the Palm as repeating events and put an > "&" into the title so I could then delete them when they sync'ed to 'rage. > Someone (don't remember who, but you're a genius :-)) suggested that this > might not work because after I deleted in 'rage, they'd be deleted from the > Palm next time I sync'd. In an attempt to avoid that, I first classified > them as "no sync" (I have the conduit set to sync all but the "no sync" > category, which works for the multi-day events as well as for email only > contacts) and then deleted them. But they got deleted from the Palm next > time I sync'd anyway. I'm certainly not willing to enter all my multi-day > events manually every time I sync. And I really do not want the 'rage > calendar to have them as repeating daily events. Can anyone think of a way > around this?
That was me that suggested the work-around wouldn't work. My guess is that when you categorize a calendar event as "no sync" and then tell the conduit to ignore that category, that the Palm can't see the event in the Entourage calendar at all and assumes it was deleted and so dutifully deletes its own copy of the event. I think there are only two ways for this to get addressed: 1. Microsoft rewrites their conduit to translate multi-day spanning events to multi-day repeating events and back again on the fly during sync with a Palm handeld. 2. Palm gives the Palm OS the ability to display multi-day spanning events in the datebook app. Sadly, I think that neither will happen. The MBU attitude as far as I can tell in regards to Palm has been "Palm doesn't do it right, so don't complain to us." And I'm sure Palm is saying "Every other app that synchs with our datebook app handles it properly, what's MS's problem?". And even if neither case is true, the MBU has expended a lot of time on the conduit now and I'm sure they need to put the programming man-power elsewhere at this point and Palm could probably care less about the relatively minor issue suffered by the fraction of the very small Mac market that uses Entourage to synch with their handheld OS. Personally, I've been making due with entering multi-day repeating events for so long that I've just accepted it as inevitable. Please, those of you that aren't as jaded as I... Fight the good fight! :-) -Remo Del Bello -- I am Dyslexic of Borg. Fusistance is retile. Your ass will be laminated. -- 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/>
