Have you tried You Syncronize? http://www.yousoftware.com/
Mostly I use iSync for the calendar in the iPod!
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:07 AM, John Siple wrote:
I've been wrestling with this for a few months now and found that some
things work and some don't.
I don't think you can keep your entire home directory identical on the
two machines using iSync.
ISync in 10.4 will do a good job of keeping your iCal data in step,
and works well with the address book. But there are some oddities when
syncing mail, particularly with multiple accounts that get frequently
manipulated. Certain mail messages seem only to appear on one machine,
and copies of outgoing messages sometimes only remain on the machine
they were sent on. Because I'm using two POP accounts and one DotMac
account I get some behaviors I haven't been able to figure out. There
are many combinations with each account on both machines and on the
DotMac account up on the server.
And one other small problem is that I would really like to keep some
of my accounting files synchronized between desktop and laptop but
haven't found a way to do that gracefully. I keep the files on a USB
flash drive sometimes, but that's a fragile system with a chance of
lost data. I don't entirely trust flash drives, at least not for data
I can't replace.
Throw in a Palm device and things get even more complicated. Palms
synchronize using a special iSync conduit that writes calendar events
to iCal and addresses to Address on the Mac, but puts the palm notes
in the Palm desktop application, which is necessary for synching even
when you're using iCal for your calendar. Palm suggests users only
synchronize with one Mac. I can't imagine what can happen when a Palm
files gets changed, the Palm gets synchronized to Mac A, Mac A gets
synchronized to DotMac on the Mac server. Mac B then gets synchronized
via DotMac with the Mac server and the Palm device gets hooked up to
Mac B. Oh, and I think only later versions of Tiger will do the Palm
dance. I don't think Panther's iSync can do Palms.
The head spins with the possibilities.
My final solution is to have my Palm only talk to the laptop, and to
do my e-mail and accounting only on the laptop. Then I sync the laptop
with DotMac. My desktop Mac just reads the files on DotMac and I avoid
making changes there. It's not an elegant system.
If a list member out there has a cleaner application to do this sort
of thing I hope the solution gets posted.
J
On Monday, January 16, 2006, at 03:27PM, Alan Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe you should give it a try. If you go to apples web site you can
get a 2 month free trial.....
I did, synced a few times, but haven't been back in a few weeks. It
seemed to work well for me.
Not the fastest, but can be done at remote locations, besides just at
home.
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