Thanks, Alex, for all your info.I had the things which I thought important in the drop down menu checked. However,I can't understand what " force slow synchronization" means . Marta On Feb 12, 2004, at 18:09, Alex W. wrote:
> > On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:07 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> thought that somehow there would be confusion if you waited too long >> or if you had too many deletions or additions. > > It depends on the way you set up iSync. > > In the iSync window, if you click on one of the PDA icons you will get > a drop-down window. One of the options there (under Calendars) is > "Ignore Palm events older than <1 week> <1 month> <3 months> <6 > months> <1 year> <2 years>". If you have that box checked, and you > wait longer than that amount of time before you sync, synchronization > won't pick up the old changes. (This option is to make syncing more > efficient, so that all your computers aren't comparing events from the > beginning of time every single time you sync.) > > On the same iSync drop-down, you can tell it (under "Contacts") to > synchronize "All contacts" or only certain groups. "All contacts" > would ensure that every entry is updated to the newest information > with each sync. > > (If you want to watch iSync paralyze your computer for an hour, create > an event and set it to repeat weekly with no ending date. Then a year > or so later, delete "this event and all future occurrences". There are > a lot of weeks between now and the end of Time According To Apple, and > it takes a long time to erase them all.) > > Alex > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
