Wednesday, May 03, 2006
No Love for Mark/Space
I'm dependent on my Mac and my Palm Zire to get through the day. Getting them to work together is a great boon for me, especially where my calendar is concerned.
Not long ago I sprung for Mark/Space's Missing Sync, a product that synchronizes iCal, the Apple Address Book, and other things with the Palm. It's been a troubled relationship. The main challenge has been that synchronization is a painfully slow process, especially for the calendar. I use my Palm calendar extensively, but I don't use it unusually -- I have lots of entries, and many of them have memos attached, but nothing I do is out of the ordinary.
The main thing Missing Sync lets me do is use iCal rather than the Palm Desktop calendar. The first time I synchronized the two using Missing Sync, the process took a very long time -- more than an hour! I asked Mark/Space what might be the issue, and they suggested that the problem might be with repeated events -- especially those that repeat into infinity. So I deleted these events (unhappily -- if the handheld can handle them, and the calendar can handle them, why can't the program that sits between the two handle them?) and got things to synchronize.
The last few times I've run Missing Sync, I've gotten word that an update (to version 5.1.0) is available. Well, foolish me, today I downloaded the update and decided to run it. I followed Mark/Space's instructions to the letter, and now the synchronization has seemingly drawn to a halt -- or at best, a slow, slow crawl.
I'm going to let it run in the background -- all day if necessary -- to see if it resolves itself. Meanwhile, if you're a Mac-Palm user considering an update to Missing Sync 5.1.0, I recommend that you hold off.
I would like to hear from anybody else who has experienced slow synchronization with Missing Sync. I need to know I'm not alone here.
Not long ago I sprung for Mark/Space's Missing Sync, a product that synchronizes iCal, the Apple Address Book, and other things with the Palm. It's been a troubled relationship. The main challenge has been that synchronization is a painfully slow process, especially for the calendar. I use my Palm calendar extensively, but I don't use it unusually -- I have lots of entries, and many of them have memos attached, but nothing I do is out of the ordinary.
The main thing Missing Sync lets me do is use iCal rather than the Palm Desktop calendar. The first time I synchronized the two using Missing Sync, the process took a very long time -- more than an hour! I asked Mark/Space what might be the issue, and they suggested that the problem might be with repeated events -- especially those that repeat into infinity. So I deleted these events (unhappily -- if the handheld can handle them, and the calendar can handle them, why can't the program that sits between the two handle them?) and got things to synchronize.
The last few times I've run Missing Sync, I've gotten word that an update (to version 5.1.0) is available. Well, foolish me, today I downloaded the update and decided to run it. I followed Mark/Space's instructions to the letter, and now the synchronization has seemingly drawn to a halt -- or at best, a slow, slow crawl.
I'm going to let it run in the background -- all day if necessary -- to see if it resolves itself. Meanwhile, if you're a Mac-Palm user considering an update to Missing Sync 5.1.0, I recommend that you hold off.
I would like to hear from anybody else who has experienced slow synchronization with Missing Sync. I need to know I'm not alone here.
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I have got a brand-new PalmZ2, Tiger, and the latest Missing Sync. All should be perfect. And it is. But one thing. Repeated events do not work. Conclusion: Missing Sync does half the woks. What boots it if the information is not totally reliable! Missing Sync acknowledged the bug and told me they would think about it, but they gave me no other precision...
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