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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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    rob on Tuesday 10 January, 2006:

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    Scott on Monday 28 April, 2008:

    I am having this same problem. I have about 50 on mine that have been there forever. Does anyone know how to get rid of them?!

    Patricia Gaston on Friday 24 October, 2008:

    Oh, my gosh! How do I get rid of Missing Synch. I even bought an upgrade two months ago and cannot even sync my pda. I cannot seem to contact Mark Space to find out why my password and registration number are repeatedly rejected. Although I have been told that my info has been sent to me, I haven't received it. This is infinitely frustrating. Meanwhile, I haven't synced my pda for two months. I get error messages telling me to remove applications, but I can't seem to be able to do ANYTHING!!

    Archit on Wednesday 09 April, 2008:

    Hi, were you able to get rid of the stupid network connections it leaves behind after the un-install? I've about 30 network things that I just can't get rid of ... I select the damn things, hit the minus sign, and nothing! :( ...

    brad nelson on Monday 17 September, 2007:

    just bought it after the demo blocked me from syncing for 6 months - first boot up (OSX 10.4.10) gave me a never ending curtain crash - still trying to boot in safe mode now. thanks very much missing sync ...

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