Ditching my Palm (hate iSync/Entourage)

I've read many posts and (now) understand that when I made the leap to MBP/Leopard/MS ofc 08 I unknowingly ended the days of my Tungsten T3 synching w/ Entourage. No conduit is forthcoming. I have to live with it. So now I'm trying to figure out where to go from here....
• I want to keep (if i can) Entourage as my mail/cal/notes/tasks/address
• I want to keep (if i can) Leopard on my new MBP
• I need to purchase a device that will sync from E in a relatively useful way
Are there any options? Am I going to have to either go back to Tiger/E2004 or stay on Leopard and give up E altogether?

On the Office 2003 CD is a conduit for syncing with Hotsync Manager. You can transfer your contacts and calendar entries into your Palm that way. I think you could conceivably then connect iSync to the Hotsync Manager if you wanted to get your Calendar onto .mac (but I haven't looked into this).

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Can't find palm tungsten isync hotsync conduit in leopard

Attempting to sync my Palm Tungsten E2 with iCal & Address Book by USB but iSync can't set up when I attempt to Enable Palm Syncing. iSync Hotsync Conduit does not install and is not found on searching with Spotlight. Palm Hotsync works fine. Where is my software not configured properly?

Problem solved. I was logged into a User Account that did not have permissions to move the conduits to a new folder 'iSync Disabled Conduits'. Logging into the System Manager Account enabled this process to proceed and reverting back to the sub-account the configuring for Enable Palm Syncing process now completed.

Can't add my Palm in iSync

I'm running iSync 3.0.2 and Hot Sync Manager 3.2.1 and I'm not able to either add my Palm in iSync or select the iSync conduct in HotSync Manager. Can someone could help me? Thanks in advance.

Hi,
if you are not using English as your default language, you may check the thread "iSync Conduit not visible in HotSync Conduit Manager" (last posts) - the mentioned workaround may help you, eventually...
- Andreas

How do I (safely) disconnect Palm from Isync?

How do I uninstall isync and ical conduits and go back to plain old Palm software? (Been using isync for over a year, but never really liked it.)
I have lots of data on my palm.
Currently using palm desktop 4.2.1 with osx.4.7.
Thanks!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) former pc user

It's actually easier than you imagine.
First, remove your device from iSync using the Remove Device command under the file menu with your device selected.
Then, navigate to this location to find the the Conduits folder, the DIsabled Conduits folder, and perhaps an iSync Disabled Conduits folder:
Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:Palm HotSync
Open the Conduits folder, and move the conduit named Apple to the Disabled Conduits folder. Open the Disabled Conduits folder [or, more likely the iSync Disabled Conduits folder if there is one] and move the standard Palm conduits back into the active Conduits folder. They are, the…
• Calendar Conduit [and the Datebook Conduit it replaced]
• Contacts Conduit [and the Address Conduit it replaced]
• Memos Conduit [and the Memo Conduit it replaced]
• Notepad Conduit
• Tasks Conduit [and the ToDo Conduit it replaced…]
Though the two generations of Palm calendaring, contact, memo and tasks conduits would logically seem to conflict, they do not: the Palm Desktop is 'smart' enough to pick the appropriate conduit to use with your device.
Be sure to use the HotSync Manager to configure each conduit initially to Handheld overwrites Macintosh, in order to preserve the records on your handheld organizer or smartphone and transfer them to the Palm Desktop. After performing the first synchronization with the Palm Desktop in this manner, you should then reconfigure the conduits to Synchronize, so that subsequent events added, deleted or modified in either environment are transfered to the other.
Be sure that you simply stop using iSync, the Address Book and iCal but do not remove them from your computer, to avoid creating all sorts of unexpected issues.
If you like the way that the Address Book and iCal operate, but do not like using iSync, consider purchasing the Missing Sync for Palm OS which replaces iSync, is fully Sync Services compliant, includes options for synchronizing memos, iPhoto and iTunes content, and provides a much more robust and reliable experience than iSync.

Leopard & Palm Os isyncing.

Hello!
I've switched to Leopard!
I'm becoming a Mac extremist/purist: I want to turn completely mac and get rid of whatever is not and therefore abandon palm desktop's agenda to use ical.
Problem is: I can't seem to have them synchronised! Something happens. Problem is that it doesn't show!
I've followed whatever isync 3 told me to me but no change is being done on either side. And in the end, when opening isync i've a picture of a palm and a bigyellow question mark...
I've called support,but the guy did not even know what isync was nor how to fully use ical.
I've a Palm tungsten E.
Can anybody help?
Thanks.

If this is what you mean by "Palm… …is working on the problem," I suggest that you check the document date. It's from May 7, 2007.
I know of no work at Palm involving an Palm Desktop, HotSync Manager or Transport Monitor update. You are correct that there are issues involving iSync 3 with Mac OS X 10.5 and Palm devices, but it is likely that the issue involves Apple's software, and not Palm's.
The issues have not been isolated and identified completely, and there is no public acknowledgment of the problem, or a projected release date for resolution. To follow this issue, you should periodically check the iSync forum, here.

Hate iSync and SE

How many time i should wait for SonyEricsson w950i iSync plugin - 5, 10, 100 years ????????? Hate both SonyEricsson and Apple !!!!! **** !!!!

It is incredibly frustrating I know but generally the guys on this forum will keep you right about where to find suitable plug-ins and patches till iSync gives it full support. You can kind of appreciate as well that since phones change all the time, then Apple are gonna struggle to keep fully up to date. I have had plenty of the 'well advertised' SE phones but have generally had to wait to get official support for them.
Hang on in their buddy!

Where is the best place to find iSync / Entourage HELP ?

Can anyone pease point me to the best best place for Entourage help - I am having trouble with SyncServices from 11.2.3
Thanks
I have a million duplications and no way of removing them !

You should probably start here, at the most comprehensive Entourage-related site on the web:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org

Entourage 2008/Leopard/iSync/Palm Treo/Missing Sync

I have been over all the "boards" and everyone is having the same problem syncing Entourage 2008 or even iCal with their Palms.
I have been working at it for three days, and have come to the conclusion that I can get everything to sync to the Palm but cannot sync back. So the only work around is make all changes on the computer, and only use the Palm for the "walk around" reminder, and of course, the contact info.
Not even close to satisfactory, but the only solution at present.
Let me share what I did to clean up the mess.
1. Wiped out all duplicate calendar entries in Entourage (took about five hours) and saved the database on a remote drive
2. Wiped out anything to do with PalmOS in applications and library - do not wipe out anything in the Docs folder
3. Unchecked the sync services in Entourage to the iStuff apps - rebooted, checked them again, and chose the overwrite from Entourage option
4. within a few seconds, quite magically, iCal and Address Book were accurate again. Do NOT delete any of the calendars in iCal, and leave them all checked - I still don't know what they mean, or what the **** "unfiled" is, but leave it alone!
5. Assuming you have "The Missing Sync", (this takes over entirely from PalmOS and HotSync Manager) only use the Mark/Space conduits - do NOT use any other contact, calendar, diary, date book, etc. Start off with contacts - select the "settings" - and choose Desktop overwrites handheld. It will work.
6. then do the same for "Events" - this should work
7. Then do the whole lot, but just the Mark/Space stuff, backup, any special software you have like AA Fligts, Zagat Guide, etc. etc.
8. Test changing an event in iCal and see how quickly it changes in Entourage. Same with Address Book, and vice versa. But any changes on the Palm, (so far) have not appeared on Entourage - an alteration sometimes appears on iCal or Address Book, but does not get Synced to Entourage. Therefore, for safety, make all changes and additions on Entourage until a fix is produced.
Now, there's the rub. A fix. Entourage syncs fine both ways to iCal and Address Book. I don't see why I have to use Sync Services anyway - with Entourage 04 and prior, the Entourage conduit used Palm OS and totally bypassed Sync Services (which is always running, and slows down the computer)
Apple won't produce a fix, because they want us to buy an iPhone. Therefore, it's down to the people at Mark/Space to try and fix this issue. Don't know how they can, because it really looks like an iSync problem, - Missing Sync works back to iCal and Address, but not on to Entourage.
Maybe we need a totally new third party fix that syncs Entourage directly to Palm.

Entourage data has never synchronized directly with the Address Book and iCal.
Traditionally, as with Entourage X and Entourage 2004, Palm user alone could choose to synchronize Entourage data using the Microsoft-supplied Entourage conduit to the Palm Desktop using that conduit, or by using the Missing Sync for Palm OS and that conduit.
Later versions of Entourage 2004 provided for a means for all Entourage users to synchronize their date with the Sync Services framework, and therefore to the Address Book and iCal. Other compatible participants included the Missing Sync for Palm OS. iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit were involved only to the degree that Entourage data moved through the framework was thereupon synchronized to a Palm device using them. Users could bypass this process and continue to synchronize their Entourage data directly to a Palm handheld using the Entourage X or 2004 conduits, with this caveat: Entourage X users could not do so under Mac OS X 10.4.x from an intel processor-powered platform.
With the release of Entourage 2008, Microsoft no longer provides an Entourage conduit for Palm users. This is no fault of Apple, Mark/Space or Palm: it is a decision solely on the part of Microsoft.
The synchronization of Palm data for Mac OS 10.5 and later users is differentiated from this issue. A primary issue involved is an apparent incompatibility with iSync 3, another is a set of issues involving the synchronization engine in iCal, which was completely rewritten for iCal 3. Neither of these issues prevent a Palm user synchronizing with Entourage through the Sync Services framework using the Missing Sync for Palm OS. Those who would prefer to use a conduit to synchronize with Entourage 2008 are out of luck, as Microsoft no longer supplies a compatible one.
The executive summary is this:
• your specific issue has nothing at all to do with Apple
• your option to synchronize a Palm device to Entourage using a conduit was eliminated by Microsoft, so…
1. take your complaint to them (and, good luck with that…)
2. contact Mark/Space to determine if they are willing to independently build an Entourage 2008 Palm conduit
I would be the first to say that Microsoft's implementation of synchronization through the framework was, and remains, rather clumsy. Again, this is an issue for Microsoft, not Apple, Mark/Space or Palm.
The Unfiled calendar in iCal is the single calendar to which, by default, all events created on a Palm device are synchronized. If you are using iSync, you can either use that calendar, or create another and delete the Unfiled calendar. I chose to name mine Palm events when I used iSync. Users of 'advanced' Palm devices with Palm OS 5.4 or later who choose to synchronize using the Missing Sync for Palm OS have their categorized events read from and written to the specific calendar for each category, and can delete the Unfiled calendar from iCal. Those users with an earlier release of the Palm OS—for example, OS 5.2 on a Treo 600—must continue to use the single Unfiled calendar or a substitute calendar into which all Palm device-created events are written. This requirement is the result of an issue with the Palm OS, and does not involve either Apple, Mark/Space or Microsoft.
Synchronization works bidirectionally IF you have properly configured your environment. Any and all additions, changes or deletions of data store components associated with any application, device or server in your pool, will reflect the same information—to the extent that such information is universally supported—after one or more synchronization events.

Need help setting up iSync with Palm

So, I'm trying to set up my Palm Treo 650 to sync with something other than Palm Desktop -- either Entourage or iCal, I guess. But I'm in this loop where iSync can't find Palm Desktop's HotSync Manager, and the HotSync Manager doesn't list iSync in its conduit settings. I can't figure out how to get the two to recognize each other.
When I select iSync > Devices > Enable Palm OS Syncing, I get an error message saying Hot Sync Manager has not been properly installed, etc. But it has. I've been syncing fine with Palm Desktop, I just don't like it and want to try something else.
I think I have the latest versions of everything installed -- OS 10.4.5, iSync 2.1.1, Palm Desktop 4.2.1, Entourage 10.1.6, iCal 2.0.3.
My Treo is syncing fine via both USB cable and Bluetooth.
Any ideas? Thank you.

Forgive my long-delayed response; I got busy with school and work. I have now been attacking this problem on and off, most recently for several hours today, and am slowly going insane.
I managed to get everything we talked about here set up -- the Disabled Conduits folder, an iSync conduit in Hot Sync, my Palm device added and syncing with iSync ....
I even got Palm info showing up in iCal. But I could not get Palm info imported into Entourage. The import wizard kept saying "the Palm Desktop file could not be found," or words to that effect.
I reset ALL the applications permissions.
I tried to install the latest version of Palm Desktop, 4.2.1 Rev D. over 4.2.1 Rev A (I assume, because it just said 4.2.1). Kept getting an error message at the final step in the installation process: "There were problems installing. Please try again.)
So I tried to reinstall Palm Desktop from my installation CD, and got the same install error.
So I deleted every vestige of Palm and Hotsync I could find on my computer, emptied the trash, and then tried to install the Palm Desktop CD. Same install error.
I am able to install other types of software just fine; in fact, just installed an OS X security update this morning.
This is driving me crazy. I don't know what to do. I am on Spring Break so I have some time to mess with my computer, but after tonight my Internet access will be spotty for the next week.

Isync, Addressbook, ical, Entourage 08

I was using Hotsync w/ palm desktop and Entourage 04, going well.
Decided to upgrade to Entourage 08, but then need to use Apple Isync conduit.
Yesterday this seemed to work, except I kept getting alerts that I had conflicts different addresses, so today I decided to do the following:
For the first sync I chose in isync "erase the handheld, then syncronize"
So my contacts on my palm were erased, calendar was not.
Now,
Since then after a "successful" sync, nothing happens.
No contacts are added to the palm, and no calendar events are added to the palm
Any ideas?
Entourage 08 and Addressbook/iCal seem to be talking ok
Tried removing the device from isync, then trying again, but nothing..

Sounds like something has gone wrong with SyncServices which needs resetting. Make sure you back-up your Contacts and Calendars first though.
First try the solution on the Apple Tech Support page below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
If that doesn't resolve it, try the solution I posted in the thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8210341

WOES: iSync, Palm Pilot, iCal, Missing Sync, Palm Desktop, Ericsson Phone

Here's my situation, I've been a long time Palm user, and fairly recently (within a year) a new Mac user. I've always used the Palm Desktop on my PC in the past. I've had a Palm Vx for years, and fairly recently (within a year) I bought a Palm Zire 72 and a Sony Ericsson S170a cell phone. I also have an iPod Photo.
I really would like to sync up my address book, calendars, memos, maybe even photos, with all my devices. I tried using iSync, but nothing seam to work right, so I tried a million things, now everything is messed up.
For right now, I'm just trying to get my Palm Pilot, the Mac, and the Phone to have all the same calendar events (w the correect times, alarms, colors, and groups).
I'm really frustrated with trying to get the mac's iCal, the palm pilot, the phone to all have the same calendar info. I really like iCal, and the mac address book, and how well it works with the mail app. As well as subscribing to shared iCals. Especially the holiday ones! I use to have to enter all that info by hand, and have them "other" repeater. The Palm Desktop software's calendar and address book is pretty clunky compared to the Mac apps, or even the Palm Desktop for the PC. But everything is messed up now. I even tried the "missing sync" software and it messed it up even worse.
Several of my cal events are now GONE from iCal, my Palm Pilot, and my Phone! Many of them have duplicates, some have wrong times. Some have right groups, some don't. The ones that do have right groups, don't have any colors applied to them. If I create certain calendars on the mac and sync with the palm, the groups do not come over. If I create them on the Palm, the groups don't come over on the mac. Getting the colors/groups to match, and all 3 items to sync all at once is a nightmare as well. There were a million conflicts, and chose the correct ones, but some of them would NOT let me pick the one I wanted, it would just keep on saying "conflict".
What would AT LEAST get me back to the original info on the Palm and the Mac would be to restore from my Palm Desktop software, but I can't get to that because it looks like the missing sync software has messed the conduit/hot sync manager up. I can no longer get to my Palm Desktop condiut settings. I'd re-install the palm software to get it back, but I will probably loose all the data stored in Palm Desktop. This is the ONLY place that has the correct info right now. I'm varry warry about loosing that information. I use to have the PC copy, and the Palm Copy, and it was all right. The Palm Desktop has an import/export feature, but it doesn't seam to carry all the info (like notes attatched to cal events).
Also, has anyone tried to RESTORE a Palm Pilot not using the Palm Desktop software? When I had to reset my Palm, I tried using iSync or even missing sync to get all my apps, settings, calendars, address books, everything, but it never put the info back on the Palm. This info was always restored with Palm Desktop.
And let's just say I DO get back all my calendar items back into the Palm, and the Palm Desktop software up and running correctly. What is the proper way to do what I was trying to do in the begining? Which was "just have my Palm Pilot, the Mac, and the Phone to have all the same calendar events (w the right times, alarms, colors, and groups)." I don't seam to have too many problems with contacts. Except work/home fields seam to swap all the time.
What I'm running:
G4 PowerMac w/ Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.3)
Palm Pilot Zire 72s (Palm Software v5.2.8)
Missing Sync (v5.0.3)
Palm Desktop Mac (v4.2.1)
Sony Ericsson S170a Cell Phone
iPod Photo 60GB
G4 PowerMac Mac OS X (10.4.3) Palm Pilot Zire 72s (Palm Software v5.2.8), Missing Sync (v5.0.3), Palm Desktop Mac (v4.2.1), Sony

Where to start? Maybe with some background about the synchronization process.
What Apple hasn't explained outside of the developer community is that you are not actually synchronizing applications [like iCal or the Address Book] or servers [like .Mac] or devices [like your mobile handset or a Palm organizer] when you initiate a synchronization. What you are really doing is triggering an interaction with one or more of these and the SyncServices engine, which maintains what is termed the 'truth database'—or simply, the 'truth'—to which is pushed, or from which is pulled, the current state of data maintained in fields and records for one or more specific data types. Because of the way this process works, it is not necessary to have all synchronized devices available or attached when a synchronization event occurs.
You can synchronize your SONY Ericsson S710a, a process which exchanges the most current data maintained in the truth with it, and hours later, plug in your iPod, an action which will trigger iTunes to pull the latest data from the truth and write it to the iPod, updating your contact and calendaring records. The same is true for other applications, servers and devices.
While it all seems clumsy and confusing, it is actually a huge step forward in making synchronization nearly automatic, almost transparent, and virtually mistake proof. It's clear that there is some distance to go before those objectives are achieved, but SyncServices is actually a huge improvement over the prior synchronization technology in iSync 1.5 and earlier.
That said, there are bugs in SyncServices, and in the applications written by several developers to take advantage of it, along with issues in at least iCal, and probably the Address Book, that complicate what you are trying to achieve. It's possible to do, and once working, should work nearly flawlessly. But, it takes some planning to get there.
First, a word about backing up your data. It's a good idea to periodically back up contact and calendaring records using the facilities built into iCal and the Address Book which appear in the File menu of each application. These options make easily restorable local snapshots of your data. Should something go terribly wrong with a synchronization event, you can immediately restore your iCal or Address Book data from these files. In addition, it's a good idea to have a more comprehensive backup plan in place, using Backup and .Mac, Backup and rewritable media, and so on.
To synchronize photos, music and other media files, you'll need to use the Missing Sync for Palm OS. iSync just does not support anything beyond contact, calendaring and task data. To begin the process, you should simplify your device pool, initially concentrating only on getting a complete, accurate set of contact, event and task records pushed to the truth from the Address Book and iCal, and onto your Palm.
You will have to take an inventory of where the best records reside, and insure that you get them into iCal and the Address Book before attempting to synchronize your Palm, because to do it properly, initially, you will have to overwrite the data on your Palm, replacing it with records from iCal and the Address Book. If you're going to edit them by making additions, changes and deletions, perform all of those in iCal and the Address Book until you have synchronized your Palm device or devices with them. Backup before performing the initial synchronization, and be sure to overwrite each Palm device the first time.
If you want a historic snapshot of the data on either Palm device before doing this, first follow the instructions provided by Mark/Space to use the standard Palm conduits instead of Mark/Space Contacts, Events and Tasks, and be sure to set each Palm conduit to Palm overwrites handheld in order to transfer the data from your Palm Vx and Zire 72 to the Palm Desktop. Once there, those records can be exported as vCard and vCal files, and easily imported into the Address Book and iCal if you wish to do that. Edit them as you see fit, once they have been transfered. If you elect to do that, you must thereafter turn off these Palm conduits and reconfigure the Missing Sync to use the Mark/Space conduits, again choosing to have your computer replace the contents on each Palm device on the first synchronization.
Once you've achieved a 'balance' with the records in iCal, the Address Book and your handheld organizers, you can reset the records on your mobile handset. iSync alone performs this function, and later synchronization events with your SONY Ericsson S710a will always be manually triggered, and performed using iSync, not the Missing Sync. Reset once, and subsequently synchronize.
Anything else you want to add to the mix—.Mac Sync, for example—you can then add, initially performing a reset of your .Mac data, then subsequently synchronizing.
Synchronization of your iPod is handled by iTunes and only pulls data from the truth, so it need not be reset, as it cannot write changes to the truth which would adversely affect your other devices.

Can't sync palm m505 with isync

I seem to be having difficulties establishing a connection. Can someone please walk me through the steps of syncing my palme with isync. I can see the device and begin the process but can not seem to establish a connection.
Thanks
Cheryl

What sort of entries are shown in your HotSync log regarding these attempts to synchronize? [Your log is the place to start with troubleshooting.]

OSX10.4.9/iSync 2.4 with Palm E2 running HotSync 3.2.1

Hi All,
iSync happily syncs between my Powerbook and phone;
HotSync happily syncs between Powerbook and my Palm...
but I can't get iSync to install the iSync Conduit in HotSync Manager enabling the Palm to download to iCal etc.
I've run 'Enable Palm OS Syncing' from within iSync a number of times. It seems to function OK (moves appropriate conduits within Library>Palm HotSync to a new folder called iSync Disabled Conduits for instance), but when I launch HotSync>Conduit Settings, the expected iSync HotSync Conduit isn't there! Back in Library>Palm HotSync>Conduits, there is newly installed file called Apple though it doesn't appear anywhere in HotSync Manager.
Also, the Palm E2 doesn't appear in iSync when I 'add device>scan' - I believe this is normal and it won't appear until the iSync HotSync Conduit finally appears in HotSync - is this correct?
I have previously had no problems with older iterations of iSync although I haven't used iSync1.? for a year or more - could something be left over that should have been deleted? I have done clean installs of OSX10.4.9 and the Palm OS 4.2.1 fairly recently.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
There is some confusion regarding this, largely the fault of Apple. There are three names for the iSync Palm Conduit:
• iSync Palm Conduit [the name that most documentation refers to]
• iSync Conduit [the name which it appears as in the HotSync Manager]
• Apple [name of the conduit as shown in the Finder]
If the file Apple resides in your active Conduits folder but does not appear when you attempt to configure conduits using the HotSync Manager or the HotSync menu item in the Palm Desktop, it's likely a damaged file. It should appear in those dialogs as the iSync Conduit.
If you cannot get it to appear, send a message to the electronic mail address listen in my Public Profile and I will reply with a copy you can use in its place.
The iSync Add Device… option is not applicable to Palm devices. You can only get it to appear by using the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option that you've been attempting to do.

ISync and Palm : difficult

Hello,
There are 2 pbs :
* there is no way to have the palm icon being displayed in the isync front windows
* when the sync is started directly from the palm, it does not sync properly the phone number : as there is no more any way to reinitialise the palm with the data from the computer (as isync can't access the palm), it syncs in the 2 directions. Then the data from the palm generate a resynchro for 250 phone numbers (the home phone are ste as work phone in address book) out of my 560 contacts.
I have accepted once these modifications, then changed all the numbers in adress book to set them back as home phone... But on the next sync, it asks me again to resynchro the 250 numbers, as if it was syncing only from the palm, and not taking in account the adress bokk modifications...
I have already tried the followings :
* destroying the palm sotware and reinstal it
* destroing the "app support" for isync and palm
* destroyng the pref for isync and palm
I have tried to reinstrall isync, but the 2.3 version seems not available on apple site... (only 1.5, an 2.1 on another site)
Context :
I have re-used my palm after may be 1 year without any use.
I was then in a previous version of OSX on the last sync 1 year ago (I have read things about first isync and 10.4.6... Too late ! )
I have a Palm zire 31

There is no easy way to do this. You must manually reconfigure the conduits each time you want to move from one environment to the other. [But, see the note of caution at the end of this message.] Also, reinstalling the Palm Desktop after iSync is installed and configured can create problems, so if you want to move from one evironment to other, do this:
Locate the active Conduits and Disabled Conduits folders, here:
Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:Palm HotSync
To activate the Palm Desktop, move this conduit to the Disabled Conduits folder:
• Apple [that's the Finder name of the iSync Palm Conduit]
To activate the Palm Desktop, move ONLY these conduits to the active Conduits folder:
• Calendar Conduit
• Contacts Conduit
• Memos Conduit*
• Tasks Conduit
The analagous but outmoded Address, Datebook, Memo and ToDo conduits should remain in the Disabled Conduits if they are present at all in your configuration.
*If activated, the Memos conduit will synchronize memos with the Palm Desktop. iSync has no memo function, and the older Memo [singular] conduit should always remain inactive if present.
To reverse the process, do just the opposite to restore iSync and deactivate the Palm Desktop. As explained above, however, leave the Memos conduit active if you wish to synchronize memos at all.
A word of warning: the SyncServices framework is complex, and subject to sudden and unexplained data errors due to corruption of actual data or the handlers which push and pull it to and from the truth database. Every time you act in a manner which increases this complexity—such as moving back and forth from one synchronization environment to another—you greatly increase the likelihood that you will corrupt your data, and you place your synchronization scheme at greater risk of failure.

Palm Tree 755p + iSync/Missing Sync for Palm/iSync Conduit 1.2

I'm lost! Being stuck with a new Palm Treo 755p instead of the iPhone until my contract runs out. How do I get my Treo to sync with my Mac? There's iSync, iSync Conduit 1.2 and even Missing Sync for Palm. I'm willing to pay anything just to get things to sync with the Treo & iBook. But, after reading anything and everything I can find even on Discussions ... I'm more confused than ever.
Can anyone tell me what the real difference is between Missing Sync for Palm vs. iSync & iSync Conduit 1.2?
If I had that rebate check from uncle Sam maybe I'd go out and pay off Sprint to get out of my 2 year contract and then buy an iPhone, LOL. Oh, that's right we don't get the check until summer
Any help is appreciated.

OK, I finally broke down and purchased "Missing Sync," after waiting for Apple to fix this problem. I'm sorry to say that "Missing Sync" does NOT solve this issue completely. It will sync the Address book, but will NOT work with iCal.
Apparently, "Mark/Space" (the makers of "Missing Sync") are aware of the problems, have identified the problem as Apple's, and reported it to Apple. Here are some of the issues noted on the "Mark/Space" web-page...
"This article describes situations under which The Missing Sync may report errors or perfomance issues. One error message is specific to iCal (part of Apple's Mac OS X operating system) and describes errors from iCal that are affecting the ability of The Missing Sync from performing sync functions properly."
"In certain situations, The Missing Sync reports an error message titled 'iCal Sync Errors'. This error is often caused when iCal is attempting to share data with Sync Services. Although this error has little to do with handheld devices, it affects the ability to sync data to or from those devices as Sync Services functions are compromised."
"THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN REPORTED TO APPLE, INC. BY MARK/SPACE."
"Errors that are not reported in The Missing Sync log may be found in the Console.log file."
"Here are some of the error messages you may see in the Console:
iSDSqliteRecordMapper
SQLite locking issue
iSynceConcreteSession
NSInvalidArgumentException
ICalExternalSync
ISyncInvalidRecordException
These error are generated by Sync Services and reported to The Missing Sync."
So, for those of you hoping that "Missing Sync" will solve the problems we are having with various hand-helds, and/or cell phones, it doesn't completely. I am a huge fan of Mark/Space's "The Missing Sync" and have used it many times throughout the years. It's a great piece of software that does a whole lot more than iSync ever has, but it does NOT solve all of the problems that are being reported all over this forum in regards to iSync issues and hand-helds/cell phones.

Ditching my Palm (hate iSync/Entourage)

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