On 3/19/06 7:29 PM, "Eddie Hargreaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think that purchasing Synchronize Pro for this purpose makes any > sense. As was noted, it is not actually synchronizing in this situation. You > can create an Automator workflow to perform this task if you want to make it > even simpler. > > Eddie Hargreaves What doesn't make any sense is using ***iSync*** for this purpose, just because the database is a monolithic file. Once iSync has done its work, the Mac that DOESN'T have the newest email will have the newest Database file, and there will be NO way that I know of to get the newest email on that machine, unless one uses imap, which isn't available to lots of us and has many problems itself (such as not being able to catch up on that cluttered inbox on the afternoon flight home). My workflow is this. WHENEVER I return home, my previously-configured Synchronize! Pro X routine updates my desktop machine with all the work I've done while away, and before I start work using my desktop machine I have two independent copies of all that work (Entourage database, Quicken data (which is actually a package, and Synchronize! Pro X is smart enough to move components of that in the proper directions), Word and Excel files, pdfs I've downloaded, digital images I've edited, etc. So, for me, two clicks and two mouse wiggles (one on the Synchronize! Pro X icon in my dock, another on the "go ahead and do it" button in the dialog that pops up) makes everything right in my world again. I do the same thing next time I'm going to leave the house, and I don't use the laptop when I'm at home, so the correct files always move in the correct direction. Even for someone who doesn't want to update anything other than Entourage, the fact that iSync cannot touch the mail messages "buried in it", and that once iSync has updated the Database file it is newer than the copy of the Database file that DOES have the newest mail, is a recipe for disaster. Jim Robertson -- -- 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/>
