What I would suggest is trying to sync with fewer contacts. In the conduit manager, you can click on the configure button and select the option to sync only a certain category. Pick a category of contacts with at most 200 contacts as an experiment, and try syncing with just that. I have about 1600 contacts in Entourage, but only 220 in my handheld. Most of the Entourage contacts are email only, and I don’t need them in my PDA. So I set up a “Sync” category in Entourage, which I assigned to the contacts I want to sync. When I add a new contact I have to remember to add the Sync category if I want it in my PDA. You could do the reverse: set up a “NoSync” category, and set the conduit to sync everything <except> that category. Then assign it to everyone, and deassign just the ones you want to sync. That way, when you add a new contact, it will sync by default; you would have to add the NoSync category to prevent its being synced.
But, try it with fewer contacts. Or even, do a run with contact syncing turned off, and see how that goes.
On or near 2/4/2003 10:04 AM, Richard Shane at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
I don't sync with anything else than my Mac. Anyone else have any ideas?
Richard
I found the same thing with a smaller number of entries. Do you sync
somewhere other than your Mac? I sync with both Mac and PC (an obscure
way to get my appointments from Outlook to Entourage). This seems to
force a slow sync on both platforms.
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:47 PM, Richard Shane wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’m hotsynching between a Handspring Visor and Entourage X. I have a
> lot of data in Entourage (3843 contacts, 179 tasks, lots of calendar
> entries). Even if I make just a few changes, hotsyncing takes about 45
> minutes. �Is there some way to speed this up? Some way to get it to
> just sync the changes that have been made (like my Retrospect backup
> program does incremental back up)? �Otherwise, this is almost
> unusable. �Thanks for your reply.
>
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