I've posted here before about how I keep my Entourage data (email, contacts, calendar, tasks -- in other words, the entire Main User Identity) synchronized between my desktop and laptop Macs. I (RELIGIOUSLY) use only one installation of all Office applications, leave Office Notifications turned off, and run Synchronize! Pro X when I'm about to change Macs, which figures out which copy of the Main User Identity is newer and makes certain that copy is on both Macs.
Now, I've purchased Missing Sync for Windows Mobile. I used a test version for a week or so with my Cingular 8125 Win Mobile 5 Pocket PC phone, and for the most part things went well, although some of my contacts were duplicated. I don't know whether Sync Services, the Missing Sync, or ActiveSync (I also synchronized the 8125 to Outlook in my Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro) produced the duplicates. I misunderstood a MAJOR element of how Sync Services works; apparently it's a faceless background task which trickles information from client applications; e.g., Apple's Address Book, Entourage (Address Book, Calendar, Tasks, and Notes), and some other apps, as well as other clients on other hardware such as mobile phones into a "Truth" database (which I assume resides somewhere on my computer). So, if I allow "dot-mac" synchronization of all of this, it seems that Entourage data fed to the "Truth" database will be writing information into Entourage's "Database" file on my laptop even if Entourage is not running on the laptop. Is that correct? Or (and I HOPE this is the case), if I set dot-mac preferences so that synchronization occurs only manually and ONLY includes non-Entourage, non-iCal, and non-Apple Address Book items, will Sync Services not push data from those applications to dot-mac, thereby leaving corresponding copies of the data unchanged on my other Mac? If that's what happens, will Sync Services continue to update the Apple Address Book and the iCal's "Entourage" calendar locally on both machines WHILE Entourage is running? Is it possible that some "housekeeping" queries of the Entourage Database file by Sync Services will occur that will reset the modification date/time flag on my Entourage Database even if I take these precautions? Finally, is there some way for a user to see what Sync Services is doing? 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/>
