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I am Finally Rid of Missing Sync

As I've whined about in previous posts I have experienced no end of troubles using Mark/Space's Missing Sync for Palm OS, version 5.

I've regularly seen these problems:

Stunningly, amazingly, agonizingly long sync times (like an hour),

Repeatedly repeated repeating events (e.g. six entries for the same birthday)

Conflict resolver reporting >500 conflicts

Confusing user interface dialogs (see the second blog posting above)

Anyway, I finally managed to free up three hours of time together with my wife to go over her calendar data, week by week, and remove all of the screwed up data. I then completely removed Missing Sync from her iBook, re-installed Palm Desktop and HotSync from Palm, configured Apple iSync to erase all data on her Treo and replace it with the desktop data, cleaned up the conduit list, backed up all her data, crossed my fingers, and hit the Hotsync button on the Treo.

And everything worked perfectly, first time, in about 5 minutes. The second and subsequent syncs have been the usual 30 seconds or so as well. There were tears of joy -- really, I'm not exaggerating. As far as my experiences are concerned, "The Missing Sync" is well named.

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