I'm giving up and reverting to my old set up of trying to keep the Apple's and Powermail's address books in sync by hand (very unsuccessfully).
Problem 1) I can't figure out why some contacts sync and some do not. It appears that the "Omit Contacts With Existing Name/Address" should be off for synching to work--tho why is not clear to any of us. I found that I could get pretty good results (addresses seemed to sync, though I couldn't be sure, groups did not sync well but it looked like they could be forced into synchronization). I was afraid to turn on 2-way synching after my first experience. Problem 2) It is very slow. On a 800MHz G4 Powerbook, syncing 1000 contacts takes 10-20 minutes. When you are having problems and are changing one setting, resynching, checking etc. you can waste hours Problem 3) The manual is nearly silent on how synching works. There are switches that are not documented but appear to be important. Certain buttons appear under some circumstances (eg "Resync") that are absent other times without documentation. The absence of a good manual could be attributable to the fact that I am using a beta version of Powermail tho. Problem 4) The killer. I am accessing my Powermail database from another computer under Apple File Sharing. When I do this, Powermail attempts to sync against the Apple Address Book on that computer, which totally confuses it. To its credit, Powermail warns you that there is a problem. A Tim Lapin at Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:07:22 -0400 said: > >Since switching to iCal, iSync, Address Book, I have found NO problems >with PowerMail, address synching or my Palm. All seems well indeed. >Also, using free software always helps. :-) > >I do agree that AAB's interface could use some work, though. Somewhere >in between AAB and NUDC would be perfect. > >-- >Tim Lapin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >G4/AGP/400 OS 10.3.5 PowerMail 5.0.1 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs > > > >
