Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

Syncing at home AND at the office with Outlook.

I have a new job. We're using Win2K/Outlook at work, and I use MacOSX/Palm Desktop at home.

What's the best way to sync my work contact database and calendar onto my Palm, but not have my personal contact database and calendar be synced with the work machine/outlook?

Can that even be done?

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Noblesville, IN
Posts: 96

It's all in the conduit

Well, you may need to use a different set of conduits than the ones that come with the Palm Desktop software. Examples would be PocketMirror Professional from Chapura or Intellisync from Pumatech. These allow filtering, which the standard Palm conduits do not. For example, you can filter based on category or based on the Private flag.

I've personally used Intellisync before, but I'm not sure if PocketMirror can do what you want.

BTW, you would have to install the product on your work PC.

Briguy

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: New York City
Posts: 158

I've been working on this for a while.

I think even with the free version of PocketMirror (you can upgrade online) you can set the conduit not to sync private entries.
But I didn't like this because I didn't want to make all my personal entries private.

It took a lot of fiddling, but I managed to do approximately what I wanted with Pocket Mirror Pro and DateBook5. I filter by category, and you need an enhanced DateBook to store categories on calendar entries. (The cheaper DateBk3 or 4 will also work.)

It's still not exactly how I want it.

And I assume someone else has a more graceful solution.