Shoe, I'd be interested in learning more about creating an alternate calendar in Outlook. I see under the File > New menu there is an option for Calendar. But I'm curious what this will do exactly. When you later open Outlook, will it ask which calendar you want? Can you choose (and change at will) which calendar is the default main calendar? How does Pocket Mirror know which calendar to sync with? Do the various calendars appear listed in the navigation pane? Any info you can share would be appreciated.
Also, can you create alternate versions of the other Outlook PIM databases (contacts, tasks, and notes) or is this limited to just the calendar? George -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of shoe Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W Craig: I was having similar problems with the calendar. I use Outlook and sync with Pocket Mirror. I called the Pocket Mirror people and they told me the problem was that the Palm looked at all the calendar entries from my whole calendar in Outlook. I was not willing to delete older entries; they are records that document work history. So, the other solution was to set up a new calendar in Outlook to hold all my entries (in my case) before 2009. This reduced the number of entries in my main calendar and speeded up the calendar on the Pre significantly. If I need to access one of the old records, I just go into the archive in Outlook. I agree that 1.3.5.1 speeded up the calendar on Pre by a good bit, but it's still not as speedy as other platforms. I'd love it to be even more peppy. -shoe- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Froehle Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W I never used DateBk and my Calendar is often very sluggish. Of course, when I imported my old Palm calendar into Google, I had ~12,000 events over 13 years, so that may be part of my problem. Palm is aware of this; one tech said this was his most common source of calls. As Don pointed out, 1.3.5.1 helped quite a bit, and I think Palm is still looking to improve performance. One thing you have to realize is that the webOS Calendar is programmed to go out and check your online sources each time you change days just to make sure it is showing you the latest data. My feedback to Palm was that's stupid if it causes such delays (some of my days take 8-12 seconds to display before I can flip to the next day) and that they should give me the option of syncing every so often (like email) and me being able to initiate a manual sync in case I want to make sure. Since I'm the only person managing my calendar, I don't need the Pre to go fetch new daily details every time...manual + regular syncs in the background would be perfectly adequate for me. As you can tell, this is a beef of mine; without a fast, responsive Calendar, the Pre is just a toy to me. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Robert Weiss Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > I had this problem with very sluggish operations and it was definitely > DateBk related. I think I did a clean reinstall of DateBk to solve it. > > Bob > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM, George Kontos <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> OK, I did this scientifically and took precise measurements. Most of my >> calendar events open in 1 - 2 seconds. Events that have repeats or alarm >> take longer to open, 3 - 4 seconds. One specific problematic one (repeats >> weekdays + alarm) took between 9 - 12 seconds to open. (Note that by "open" >> I mean open the dialogu box and fully populate all the fields so you can >> edit them. All my events *start* to open instantly, but it can take up to >> 12 seconds for all the data in the fields to appear.) >> >> Solution: I had two events that were really slow-to-open. I deleted them >> and re-created them from scratch on the Pre. Now they open in 1 - 2 >> seconds. I noticed the problematic ones are all carry-overs from my old >> Treo 700p running DateBk6. DateBk6 always inserted embedded/hidden codes in >> the notes section of calendar events. Maybe that's what was hosing some of >> my events. >> >> George >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Don Ferguson >> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:15 PM >> To: Treo List Yahoo >> Subject: RE: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W >> >> Nope, that's not normal. Not even close to that much time. Calendar isn't >> as fast as it should be, but it's much faster with 1.3.5.1 than previously. >> 10 seconds to open a calendar entry is a problem. On mine it takes a split >> second. >> >> Cheers, >> Don >> >> From: George Kontos >> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:14 AM >> To: Treo List Yahoo >> Subject: [Treo] Pre calendar is S L O W >> >> Have you guys noticed this? >> >> When I open an event from the calendar, it sometimes takes about 10 seconds >> or more for the event details to fully load. And sometimes when I go to >> delete an event, when I hit the delete button, the calendar hangs/freezes >> right there at the drop down menu, and won't recover. I have to swipe away >> the app and start over. Today I realized this was happening when I hit the >> delete button too quickly, BEFORE the event details have fully loaded. If I >> wait patiently and then hit delete, it doesn't freeze up. >> >> George >> >> >> > > > > -- > Robert L Weiss Jr. > Director of Music > 1st United Methodist Carbondale > Professor Emeritus, SIUC > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
