On 11/08/2004 at 10:36 AM I saw alan type: >I have been wanting to turn on PowerMail/Address Book Synchronization, >but I have been afraid that I will lose data and spend hours trying to >get myself out of yet another computer tarball. I have about 1000 people >in my address book and in my Power Mail address book. Any other advice-- >or should I just do what Lally suggests? > >A > >Lally Singh at Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:53:30 -0400 said: > >>I use the synchronization features extensively. It's pretty good. >>The trick is to make sure that you keep the books *completely* sync'd. >> Make sure everyone you want is in your apple address book, then wipe >>your PM address book clean, then turn on the features in the >>'synchronization' section of PM's prefs.
I've been syncing them both since PM started offering it as an option. It works wonderfully. I remember having a couple of hitches with 4.x, but they were minor, and since 5.0 have had no problems at all. I sync them and have it update every time it's brought to the fore. I also sync them with a Palm 515 and a Sony/Ericsson T68i via iSync. I regularly make changes/additions/deletions via all three platforms and have had no errors. Your mileage may vary. If you have a lot of info in your PM address book that may not be in your Apple Address Book [AAB], I would sync once, turn it off, and then clear your PM address book. Open your AAB and deal with any duplicates there. The AAB has a menu item to merge two cards if there are duplicates that you want to deal with. After this you can turn sync'ing back on and happily know that you only have to keep one address book up-to-date. Kename
