The Missing Sync for Palm OS
Sync contacts, calendars, photos and more between a Mac and Palm OS device, such as Treo or Centro.
Version: 6.0.6
Hosed
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: chembob Tuesday, November 01 2005 @ 07:05 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
I immediately coughed up my $25 for the upgrade of this $40 program, even though I paid the $40 only about 3 months ago. Unfortunately the program has cost me a lot more than that, consuming about 2 hours of my time at this point trying to salvage my Palm information. It hangs every time when it gets to the "Synchronizing Mark/Space Events" after asking obtuse questions prior to the sync that require an "allow" or "don't allow" response with no explanation of what you are actually allowing because they've changed a lot of the terminology evidently. I've had to force quit the program at least 3 times and soft reset the Palm (Zire 72s) at least twice. The calendar on my Palm was blank at this point. Of over 300 contacts, only about 20 or so of them were on the Palm. I'm sitting here wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I'm running OSX 10.4.3, having upgraded the OS yesterday. Oddly, the prior version of Missing Sync was working perfectly. I had this feeling when I was buying the upgrade that I might be breaking something that was working. I wish I could revert to the older MS and get a refund. As with all things Palm-related, use this at your own risk.
No Longer Hosed - chembob
I'm replying to my own comment. I don't know what changed, but after about the 5th time trying to sync it finally got through the Mark/Space Events and everything afterward worked. As with so much on the Palm, it almost seemed more like magic than technology. At any rate it worked. I'd tell you why if I knew why but I did nothing different. Now I'll reset my "override handheld" settings to "synchronize" and hope that it continues working. There are a lot of nice features in this version of Missing Sync and I'm anxious to try them out. Hopefully this was just a fluke and others won't experience the problem. As I said, version 4.0.6 worked perfectly and I had no problem recommending it. If this continues to do as it should I'll come back and rate the program and give it good scores.Reply to This
Tuesday, November 01 2005 @ 07:40 PM PST