Paul Berkowitz scripts

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Simon Pollock

I have enjoyed using Entourage and have recently upgraded to 2004 which is
great. I have always synched with a Palm but have recently purchased an
Ericsson P900 phone which is a very good combo of PDA and phone. The
nightmare is trying to sync it to Entourage. I purchased Pocket Mac's
GoBetween which claims to be able to perform this miracle. Well it simply
does not work and the claim that they have tested it for five months seems
incredulous. What does work however is using Paul Berkowitz's scripts to
sync to iCal and the Mac address book and then using iSync to sync with the
phone.

I am a novice at Apple scripts but would it be possible to use a script to
perform:

Sync Entourage to iCal and address book and then sync to the phone.

Entourage is such a good programme that really helps me (especially the
additions in 2004 version) but transferring the info to a portable device
seems to be really complicated.

Any thoughts?
 
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Barry Wainwright

I have enjoyed using Entourage and have recently upgraded to 2004 which is
great. I have always synched with a Palm but have recently purchased an
Ericsson P900 phone which is a very good combo of PDA and phone. The
nightmare is trying to sync it to Entourage. I purchased Pocket Mac's
GoBetween which claims to be able to perform this miracle. Well it simply
does not work and the claim that they have tested it for five months seems
incredulous. What does work however is using Paul Berkowitz's scripts to
sync to iCal and the Mac address book and then using iSync to sync with the
phone.
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Try Salling MobileSync - it performs flawlessly on my Sony-Reicsson T610
(Shareware, $24.95 - free for 7 days)
 
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Simon Pollock

Try Salling MobileSync - it performs flawlessly on my Sony-Reicsson T610
(Shareware, $24.95 - free for 7 days)
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Sadly this will not work on the P900. I think it is a different/newer
version of the Symbian software. It is a great shame because the P900 is a
great smart phone. Will what I suggested with the Berkowitz scripts work?

Thank you
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Sadly this will not work on the P900. I think it is a different/newer
version of the Symbian software. It is a great shame because the P900 is a
great smart phone. Will what I suggested with the Berkowitz scripts work?
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The Salling MobileSync does not work with any of the Symbian phones - only
non-Symbian phones. It's great, fast software where it does work.

Yes, my Sync scripts work as you describe. That's what they were designed to
do - that's their purpose. The First Run is slow (AppleScript is slow).
After that, syncing regularly should be straightforward and fairly fast.
With the Address Book script, you do not need to Check for Deletions most of
the time, and that makes it much faster. The iCal script is faster to begin
with, so even with the default Check for Deletions (needed if you change the
name, start time, or category/calendar of an event or task) it's pretty
quick, and extremely fast if you don't need to check.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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Simon Pollock

The Salling MobileSync does not work with any of the Symbian phones - only
non-Symbian phones. It's great, fast software where it does work.

Yes, my Sync scripts work as you describe. That's what they were designed to
do - that's their purpose. The First Run is slow (AppleScript is slow).
After that, syncing regularly should be straightforward and fairly fast.
With the Address Book script, you do not need to Check for Deletions most of
the time, and that makes it much faster. The iCal script is faster to begin
with, so even with the default Check for Deletions (needed if you change the
name, start time, or category/calendar of an event or task) it's pretty
quick, and extremely fast if you don't need to check.
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I am bit of a novice with Applescript. Can I record the actions done by your
two scripts so that is in fact just one script that then syncs iCal and the
address book with Entourage? Or do I have to perform the two syncs and then
the iSync with my P900?

Thanks
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I am bit of a novice with Applescript. Can I record the actions done by your
two scripts so that is in fact just one script that then syncs iCal and the
address book with Entourage? Or do I have to perform the two syncs and then
the iSync with my P900?
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No, AppleScripts aren't recordable. You can however, set both of them to run
automatically, either from Entourage schedules an hour or so apart (leaving
Entourage open overnight), then synching manually to phone whenever you
want, or else using a utility such as Cronnix (free). Instructions for the
former are in the ReadMe. If you do the latter, I imagine you might be able
to follow it with an automatic phone sync if that can be initiated by
launching a phone-sync-app without having also to press buttons.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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