On 5/17/09 4:20 PM, "Richard Kriss" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone have success using the Sync Service to transfer Entourage > Addresses for use by Apple's Mail? Yes, but you need to make the correct selection. Until you are familiar with sync, you should work off a copy or have a good backup. If I remember you created a backup of your contacts with your stress tests. There's a dialog that pops-up in Entourage when you turn on synching of a calendar or address book that asks something like: "You have enabled Sync Services for a folder, do you want to?" Replace Entourage items with Sync Services items Replace Sync Services items with Entourage items Merge Entourage items with Sync Services items The "Replace Entourage items" option will delete all items in Entourage and override them with the contents of the Sync Services truth. You'd want to do this if you haven't used Entourage in a while or you consider your cell phone's address book the primary "rule" for your contacts. The "Replace Sync Services" option makes Entourage the short-term rule. All contents within your truth will be deleted and replaced with Entourage items. In this case, all contacts in your Address Book app would be deleted and then replaced with those from the address book selected in Entourage. This is useful if you've been living in a two-address book world (as I have) with Entourage as your primary address book. The "Merge" option is the safest option. Nothing gets deleted. Items in the Sync Services truth go into Entourage and items within Entourage go into the Sync Services truth. This can be a bit messy, causing duplication, or unwanted items--but your data is pretty much guaranteed to remain. Generally, I'd always recommend "Merge" with a clean-up later on (remember, all future deletions/modifications will get synched from this point forward). After selecting one of these options, all changes in anything that talks to the truth will be synchronized to any application that listens. Read Andy's "Basics of how Sync Services Works" for full details. <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/syncservices/basics.html> -- Diane YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
