Rod,
After years of fiddling around, this is the way I do it. Works
consistently.
Just buy Missing Sync for Palm OS - it works very well despite what all
the nein-sagers and odd-balls on the VT sites say. Install it over the
top of the basic Palm Desktop install. And accept that you're going
to start from scratch with the Treo.
I set the Sync Services prefs in E2004 to sync with AddressBook.app and
synchronise my contacts with the Treo via Missing Sync and
AddressBook.app. The Entourage conduit does all the rest.
Make a copy (to the Desktop) of the conduits in the following folder:
/Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Conduits Take note of which
ones are there.
Install the "Handheld Sync Installer" located in the Additional
Tools folder inside your Office application folder. This will, if I
remember correctly, move the Missing Sync conduits to a folder called
Conduits.psdisabled in the same folder as the one above. Move the
Missing Sync conduits back into the /Library/Application Support/Palm
HotSync/Conduits folder from which they have just been moved.
If you then open the Missing Sync application, you will see all the
Missing Sync conduits as well as the E2004 conduit. Create 2 different
Missing Sync profiles: one which contains the Install and Backup
conduits as well as the E2004 and call it for example "E2004" or
whatever. Then create a 2nd profile containing only the Mark/Space
Contact + Install and Backup conduits. Let's call it
"AddressBook"
Choose the E2004 profile and double-click the Entourage conduit.
Set the the Contacts section of the E2004 conduit to do nothing. If you
use it it will only sync a portion of your E2004 contacts' addresses
and phones to the Treo - either the Work or Home details, not both. I
let Sync Services sync all the data automatically to Address Book.app
and set Missing Sync to do a Contact sync separately with
AddressBook.app.
Set the Calendar, Tasks and Notes sections of the Entourage to do what
you want. I usually tell it not to sync completed Tasks, and to sync
only calendar events 8 weeks into the past and all future ones. For the
first sync set the Desktop to overwrite the Palm - it then defaults to
synchronisation.
Do a Hard Reset of your Palm. I presume you have managed to get
important data out of the Palm or that it does not contain non-backed
up data.
Recreate the categories on the Palm in Calendar, Contact and Memos.
(Remember you have to manage your categories well in E2004 limiting
them to 15 in each application).
Make a .zip back of your Microsoft User Data folder in ~/Documents just
in case. Heck I back this thing up daily anyway. Have not had an
Entourage melt-down in the past 3-4 years now. But if something goes
wrong you can just go back to the backup.
WITH THE E2004 PROFILE SELECTED, rename the current handheld in Missing
Sync - using the "Handheld" button in the top left corner. I
usually just add the date to the end of the current name.
Then in the same window create a "New handheld" - giving it the
same name as the original, ie Joe Bloggs - whatever you have given as
your handheld name during the Treo's initial setup. Close the window.
I think that at this stage - or maybe after you have pressed the Hot
Sync button on the Treo - Missing Sync will run you through the setup
protocol. Say "No" at all the stages involving Contacts, Tasks,
Memos and Notes. Do whatever you want with the synchronisation of
folders, iTunes etc. I always say "yes" to the Time
synchronisation.
At this stage you simply press the Hot Sync button on the Treo and all
should work fine. The only hassle is that Calendar categories are not
synced - Tasks categories are carried over though.
Once the E2004 sync has completed, I change the Missing Sync profile to
the "AddressBook" profile (the one containing the Mark/Space
Contacts conduit). Double click the conduit button. Set up the conduit
categories. For the first sync tell it to overwrite the Palm. It
subsequently defaults to the 2-way sync.
Once again press the Hot Sync button on the Treo and the Contacts data
will sync.
Thus a full sync in this way is 2-step process. A bit longer than
using the full Entourage conduit, but you get all the Contacts
information in the Treo. Any contact changes you make on the Treo will
sync with AddressBook and the E2004 Contact database will be
automatically updated.
Hope I haven't left any important steps out.
Once this is up and running you can add any of the other conduits you
want (LifeBalance, DocumentsToGo, etc). As long as you keep the
Mark/Space Contacts/Events/MemoPad/Tasks in a different profile to the
Entourage one, there won't be conflict.
Oh and you will have to re-install all your applications. But that's
quickly done.
Hope this helps.
Steve J
