Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Boston MA
Posts: 16

I use PocketMirror (Handspring's version) to sync my visor's datebook, to-do, addresses, and memos to MS-Outlook's calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes on my work PC.

At home, I sync my Visor to Palm Desktop. I want to disable sync'ing my items marked as "private" to Outlook, while continuing to sync them to Palm Desktop at home.

PocketMirror has a "filter private" setting on the "miscellaneous" tab of its "Change Calendar (or whatever) Properties" setting box. As expected, when I set that to filter private, my appointments marked as "private" on the Visor do not appear in Outlook. Great.

But when I got home and sync'd to Palm Desktop, on a machine that doesn't even have PocketMirror installed, my "private" items didn't sync to Palm Desktop anymore. In fact, it deleted them from the desktop. I can't find anything in Palm Desktop or in the Hotsync settings to even see or change "filter private" preferences.

How is this happening? Are PocketMirror's filter preferences being actually stored on the Visor? So that when I try to sync to any other PC, it reads the "filter private" and doesn't sync them? That defeats much of the purpose of having both work and personal items on the handheld.

Is there a way around this? Anybody else work around this constraint?

Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 14

I have the same issue, which I thought would be extremely common, but not finding anyone with a solution. Which amazes me! (See my other post about syncing 8a-6p Mon-Fri.)

I use Groupwise at work for Calendar, so different software (Palm Desktop at home), but I also don't want my personal appointments uploaded to my corporate calendar. I was wondering if marking everything personal as Private would do it, but I think even that is a poor solution. (haven't got to try it yet because waiting for upgrade to GroupWise 5.5).

I would have thought that you could have/view/sync a Business calendar, a Personal calendar, and then All (maybe even another for Spouse and/or Kids) -- just like you can in the categories in the App Launcher (app menus), Address, To Do List, and Memo Pad. Seems like it's covered everywhere but Calendar (Datebook) and Mail.

Anybody know of an add-on to get this functionality? And know why it's not standard issue?

Also, what is Pocket Mirror? Is it separate software on the Handspring CDROM, or is it a part of PalmDesktop? I'm not syncing at work yet, so am only using Desktop at home.

[This message has been edited by Rembrandt (edited 04-06-2000).]

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: SW Virginia
Posts: 290

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Originally posted by Rembrandt:
I would have thought that you could have/view/sync a Business calendar, a Personal calendar, and then All (maybe even another for Spouse and/or Kids) -- just like you can in the categories in the App Launcher (app menus), Address, To Do List, and Memo Pad. Seems like it's covered everywhere but Calendar (Datebook) and Mail.

Anybody know of an add-on to get this functionality? And know why it's not standard issue?

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 15

I figured I couldn't be the only one running into this. I wish I could offer help instead of asking for it but I need this help too.
I am running Outlook 2000 at both home and work, currently I only sync at home because I don't want my personal information (address book, appointments, to do's) on my work computer. I don't mind if my work info ends up on home desktop, in fact I would prefer it to so I have a personal record of my work business contacts.
Anyone know how to do this?
If I have Pocket Mirror on both machines and mark my personal things as private then set the filter on my work computer, will that do it?

[This message has been edited by bkealy (edited 04-06-2000).]

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Boston MA
Posts: 16

Apparently if you go into "view/show private items" in Palm Desktop's menu, you can then see the private records. If you've set a passworld on the palm/visor you're prompted to enter it.

That was the info I got back from both support@chapura (PocketMirror creator) and Handspring support. It has seemed to work now.

However there is no corresponding feature that I can find on the Mac Palm Desktop. And yesterday, when I sync'd to my Mac at home as well as my PC at home, after sync to Outlook at work with filters on, I couldn't get to my private records on the Mac Palm Desktop at all.

I've since re-done all the syncs:
1) On work PC, turned off private filtering, did a hotsync synchronize. This put all back onto Outlook.

2) On home PC, on Palm Desktop (no Chapura PocketMirror) I did a one-time change for Datebook, To-Do, Address, Memo conduits to "Handheld overwrites Desktop". Did a sync from handheld (which had just been synced with Outlook) overwriting Palm Desktop.

3) On home Mac, did same.

4) Back on work PC, reset private filtering to on - don't put private records on Outlook.

5) Re-sync to Outlook. Private records disappeared as desired from Outlook.

6) Normal hotsync to home PC.

7) Normal hotsync to home Mac.

With all of the above done, I now have only my non-private records on the work PC. I have all my records on the home PC and home Mac.

Now whether it STAYS that way is another issue! This convoluted process is not something I want to do on any regular basis.

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Boston MA
Posts: 16

Quick update: after re-syncing to Outlook at work again, and coming home and syncing to both Palm Desktop(NT) and Palm Desktop(Mac)I'm still ok - all private records are still available in Palm Desktop, and not available in Outlook.

So it looks like it works!

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Iowa
Posts: 6

I just got my Visor and would like to set it up as you did. My question: is there any way to make a new Datebook entry automatically (by default) be private? I know I can go into details and check it, but it would be handy to make it the default.

Thanks!

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 68

It might be that because you are syncing with two computers, things might get messed up a bit. When I did this a few years ago (work and home), I set my home sync's to "handheld updates desktop" and effectively used the pc as a backup. I spent more time on my then Palm Pilot and work PIM than at home in the Palm Desktop software.

Something to consider.