It's doubtful that any of this has anything to do with Entourage. It sounds like the Palm, or maybe the conduit, lost track of which items were more up-to-date or when it last synced.
I suggest you get Missing Sync for Palm OS from Mark/Space. It's much much more reliable than the Palm Desktop HotSync you're using. Plus it keeps real, proper backups. In addition, you might want to remove the Entourage Storage file from ~/Documents/Palm/Users/you/Entourage Data/ to force a slow sync next time, in case the sync data has lost its awareness of which Entourage items sync with which Palm items. It might have got corrupted. Your most recent corrections probably brought the up to date, but you never know. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: Jan Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:56:06 -0800 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[email protected]> > Subject: Strange sync behavior > > Using E'rage 2004. This morning when I plugged in my Treo and did Sync, it > decided to do "handheld overwrites computer" at least that's the only > explanation I can make for the fact that everything I had entered on the > computer since my last sync disappeared, and all multi-day events (which > still don't sync properly to the Palm, but by now I've given up on trying to > do anything about that) returned as one day events, and lost their > categories. I checked the conduit settings and they say "synchronize" but I > realize that it could have said "handheld overwrites computer" before I did > the sync this morning, because it does that only once and then reverts to > "synchronize." After checking the settings, I made a copy of the database > and then did a sync again and it was fine. What I'm wondering is whether > there's anything I can do to avoid having this happen again? It was no fun > going through the calendar fixing things. Luckily, I hadn't entered any > contacts on the computer since the last sync, so hopefully that's okay ... > No, it isn't - all the categories are gone!! No, not all, only for the > contacts whose primary category was one that isn't on the handheld (I have > more categories on the computer than on the handheld). Great. So, I can fix > it by going through the contacts, but what about the future? Do I have to > check the settings before I sync? Or what? > > Meanwhile, I continue to get multiple copies of emails, even though I am now > leaving *nothing* on the server. My husband asked if I couldn't use a > different email program in response to my irritated comment. But I like > E'rage, it just is frustrating to have the same emails arrive over and over. > > -- > Jan Martel in Davis, CA > G4PB 15" Al; System 10.3.8 > > > -- > 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/> > > -- 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/>
