ICal and Palm Tungsten E2

I am about to pick up my new IMac from the tech support people and I want to know if I can use my Palm Tungsten E2 with ICal. Where can I find out how to move my Pam files to the new computer? They dont seem to have a clue.

I'm certain that your issue has nothing to do with the SD card you inserted in your device, and likely nothing to do at all with pTunes. The errors indicate a fundamental problem with the Sync Services framework. You can apparently initiate a session, and pull changes, but not complete the remainder of a typical five-step synchronization session.
Take a look at this document for an overview of what should happens when you synchronize:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/syncservices.html
You can reset the truth database—a process which will reinitialize the framework and make it appear as though you have never synchronized before—simply by launching iSync, opening the Preferences… dialog and pressing the Reset Sync History button. That will not affect the data stored in any applications, or on any devices or servers, and will not unregister any sync clients. Once you've done that, attempt to synchronize again.

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Ical and palm desktop - help

I'm using palm desktop to syn with my palm treo.
I would like to syn my palm desktop calendar with ical.
Anybody knows how to do it?
Thanks!

You cannot simultaneously synchronize 'conflicting' data types with your Palm device. So, for example, your can…
• synchronize contacts between your handheld the Palm Desktop, or
• synchronize contacts between the Address Book and your handheld using iSync, or
• synchronize contacts between the Address Book and your handheld using the Missing Sync for Palm OS and Mark/Space contacts
…but, you cannot choose to perform 2 or more of these options. You must pick an environment—the Palm Desktop or the Address Book and iCal—and a program by which to do this—the Palm Desktop, iSync or the Missing Sync for Palm OS.
The same is true for calendaring and task data. You must choose an environment and an appropriate program to execute and supervise your synchronization events.
It is possible to cross environments by directing contacts to one, and calendaring and tasks to another, but this is a special application best avoided unless you have a very specific reason for choosing this option.
So define precisely what it is you want to accomplish, and I will outline the configuration instructions you need to follow. It's also important to know which Treo model you intend to synchronize, as those prior to the Treo 650 present some challenges, and the Palm OS-based Treo 650 and later another set when iSync is the program chosen.
Any 'advanced' Palm device which uses Palm OS 5.4 or later is better supported by the Missing Sync for Palm OS, and any Palm device which uses the Windows Mobile OS requires the use of third-party software like the Missing Sync for Windows Mobile.

ICal and Palm TX no longer syncing properly in 10.4.7

I have a Palm TX and have always been able to update the calendar on my Palm with the events in my iCal. Now it claims that the sync was successful, but not a thing has changed on either device. I doesn't matter what I choose in the conduit settings, they simply won't update each other, despite the fact that both devices say they did. I've tried resets on the Palm and such, but no luck. And there is absolutely no useful information on the Palm site. Even when you try to get Mac info, you are often directed to Windows articles and such. Everything worked until I updated to 10.4.7. Anyone familiar with this?

So I'm not the only one!!!
I have the exact same problem. I have a new MacBook, iPod, and Palm TX. I set them all up (using Missing Sync for the TX, and iTunes for the pod), and everything worked like a champ until one day I opened iCal and discovered it had dumped everything (ALL calendars), so I recreated the calendars & events (didn't have a backup yet), and since then, both Missing Sync and iTunes both show the old (now non-existent) calendars to sync -- not any of my new calendars are avaliable in either program's menu to sync.
I too have emailed MarkSpace (no answer yet) thinking it was originally a Missing Sync issue, but then discovered that iTunes was doing the same thing, so the problem must be in iCal? My updated Address Book contacts sync on both the TX and the iPod like a champ, so the issue must be with iCal I guess...
Glad to hea I'm not the only one who's run into this; thanks in advance for any ideas!

Isync nokia 6620 and palm tungsten T2 with OS 10.4

I use isync to synchronize iCal and Contacts to these 3 devices via bluetooth, but when I create a new appointment on my Palm, it is synced with my computer but not with my phone. The appointment is only put on my phone's calendar the next time I run iSync. This seems to be the only problem--creating appointments in any of the other directions flawlessly syncs across all three devices. Also, creating or editing a contact on any of the three devices also syncs fine. Does anyone know if this problem can be resolved?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
What you perceive as a problem is actually a feature - a consequence of shifting synchronization of all servers, applications and devices to the SyncService framework. Now, iTunes is configured to interact with the truth database maintained by SyncServices to synchronize iPods, .Mac Sync handles a similar interaction to synchronize with .Mac, and iSync is relegated to handling mobile handsets and Palm handheld organizers and smartphones.
In the same manner, applications like iCal and the Address Book interact with the SyncServices framework, as do many third-party applications like MySync, the Missing Sync for Palm OS, DayLite, and others.
If your mobile handset is not connected via Bluetooth or USB, or iSync is not running when you initiate a synchronization event using the HotSync icon, or the button on your cable or cradle, then your device will not be synchronized until it is 'attached' and iSync is launched. This update occurs because the SyncServices engine is aware that the device exists and was not available during the prior event. As soon as becomes available, the update takes place.
If you want your mobile handset to be simultaneously synchronized when you synchronize your Palm device, then you must do two things:
• 'attach' it via Bluetooth or USB, and
• launch iSync prior to initiating the HotSync

Proper synching of iCal and Palm

I have discovered that my Palm Treo 650 does not synch contacts "work" adresses but it will synch the "home" addresses. (Going from iCal to the Palm.)
Does anyone know how to access settings in the conduit to fix this issue?
Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
This is a long-standing issue with the iSync Palm Conduit, and it cannot be modified to work around the issue. You might instead take a look at the Missing Sync for Palm OS—with its Mark/Space Contacts conduit—which does not suffer from this, or several other, serious limitations:
http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php

Help! how to sync iCal and Palm?

Hi out there...I recently turned back in my Palm Treo 680 and bought an iPhone. I want to sync my Palm data with iCal. There is information out there about how to do this if you still have the handheld device, but I don't, I only have the Palm files on my desktop machine. Does anyone have information about how to successfully sync between Palm and iCal given this situation? Thanks!

I you had been synchronizing your Treo 680 using iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit, you're set: simply synchronize your iPhone using iTunes and your contact and event data will flow to it from the synchronization database.
If you had been synchronizing your Treo 680 using the Palm Desktop, then launch that application, select the Address List option under the View menu, then Export… under the File menu.
Name your export file and pick a location to store it, then be sure that the following settings read…
Module: Addresses
Items: All xxxx Addresses
Format: vCard
Then press the Export button.
To export your event data, select any Datebook option under the View menu, then Export… under the File menu.
Name your export file and pick a location to store it, then be sure that the following settings read…
Module: Datebook
Items: All Datebook Items
Format: vCal
Then press the Export button.
Double click on each exported file to auto-import your contacts into the Address Book and your events into iCal.

How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?

Hello,
How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?
I have a Palm Tungsten E handheld which just died.
Luckily, all my data is backed-up on my Palm Desktop V4.2.1.
I just bought an iPod-Touch, so I would like to easily transfer
all my data (Addressbook, Calendar, etc) from the Palm Desktop
on my Mac (OSX 10.5) to the equivalent Mac applications
(Address Book, iCal) which will then allow me to view and update
them on my iPod-Touch.
How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?
Thanks in advance for your help.
David

Hi David. The contact information is straightforward. Bring up your Address List in Palm Desktop, then select Export under file. You pick vCard as the format, and save the resulting file where ever. In Address Book, you then select Import --> vCards under file. You may need to edit things like birthdays by hand afterwards.
I am still working on the Calendar information.
- Chris

ISync Palm overwrite iCal and sync AddressBook

Hi,
I used to use iSync with my old palm, but disabled the conduit.
Now I have a new Palm Tungsten T5 and want to start using iSync again.
Do I just re-download the conduit?
Also, when I do the first Sync, I'd like to overwrite iCal with the DateBook info on the Palm. However I've been adding addresses to both the Palm and the Mac, so I don't want to overwrite the Mac addressbook, but synchronise the two. Is it possible to sync addresses whilst overwriting datebook? Or could/should I wipe iCal clean somehow first? How would I do that?
Cheers.
iCal v1.5.5
AddressBook v3.1.2
Palm Desktop v4.2.1
Mac OS X 10.3.9

There is really no simple way to do this.
You should actually start by installing the Palm Desktop software from the CD-ROM which came with your Tungsten, then 'upgrading' using the downloadable installer located here:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/macintosh/macdesk421revd.html
Once you have done this, you should move your Palm conduits so that only these current versions of the standard conduits are present in the active Conduits folder:
• Calendar Conduit
• Contacts Conduit
• Memos Conduit
• Tasks Conduit
The Disabled Conduits folder should initially contain these conduits, if they are present in your configuration:
• Address Conduit
• Apple [that's the iSync Palm Conduit's Finder name]
• Backup Conduit
• Datebook Conduit
• Install Conduit
• Memo Conduit
• ToDo Conduit
…along with any other inactive conduits.
Having done that, you need to then use the HotSync Manager to configure the individual conduits so that the Calendar and Tasks conduits are set to Macintosh overwrites handheld, and the Contacts conduit is set to Synchronize. Then, synchronize your handheld with the Palm Desktop. This step accomplishes several things: it meets the Apple requirement to synchronize at least once with the Palm desktop before installing and using iSync, it creates a a contemporary backup of your data, and it allows you to achieve the data transfers according to the patterns which you want - something that iSync does not allow.
Now you need to download and install the iSync Palm Conduit. Having done that, launch the HotSync Manager or use the HotSync options of the Palm Desktop to add your device to iSync. Do this by selecting the iSync Palm Conduit, and checking the option to Enable iSync for this Palm device. Before you synchronize with iSync, do this…
• export your calendar and task data from the Palm Desktop in vCal format
• export your contact data from the Palm Desktop in vCard format
• import the vCal data into iCal, replacing the current record set
• import the vCard data into the Address Book, replacing the current record set
Now, launch iSync, and configure the calendar and contact options you want in the drop-down configuration pane for your device. Initiate a synchronization event, and choose to merge - rather than to replace - the data on your devices.

ICal not syncing with Palm Tungsten E

I had to reinstall my operating system to the original Tiger. I reinstalled my Palm Desk top and updated it to 4.2. and synced with the Palm. Then I did a combined update to 10.4.6 & iSync 2.2. I added the Palm devise and did the original sync with the isync button. When I went to sync again later as I had added dates on the Palm I used the hot sync on the Palm. The dates did not show up on the iCal. How do I resolve this issue?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Can you describe what you did a little more clearly? I understand that you reinstalled Mac OS X 10.4, the Palm Desktop 4.2.1—revision D, I presume, from a downloadable package obtained from Palm—then synchronized with the Palm Desktop. You then updated to Mac OS X 10.4.6 by applying a Mac OS Update package, and added your Tungsten E to iSync, presumably using the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option under the iSync Devices menu. Is that correct?
When you first synchronized using iSync 2.2, did you choose the Merge the data in iCal and on your Palm, or did you choose to Replace the data on your Tungsten E?
Following your initial synchronization with iSync 2.2, you added, changed or deleted some events on your Tungsten, correct? And those modified records did not show up in iCal after yet another synchronization event, correct?
The reason that I ask these specific questions is that individuals use such terms as Palm, Palm Desktop, HotSync, iSync button and so on almost interchangeably. By Palm, for example, you could be referring to your device, the Palm Desktop package—including the HotSync Manager and Transport Monitor—installed on your computer, or simply the Palm Desktop contact and calendaring application alone. Depending upon what you are actually trying to convey, the issues and therefore, the resolution of those issues, can be very different.

ICal and Tungsten E category syncing

I'm syncing my iCal calendars with my Tungsten E via iSync, but I lose my iCal categories. Is there a way to maintain the categories between the two locations?

Not using iSync, as the iSync Palm Conduit does not map categories between iCal and the Palm calendaring application. To do that, you'll need to be using Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and purchase and install the Missing Sync for Palm OS.
This article explains how information is transfered between iCal and your Palm device using the Mark/Space Events and Tasks conduits, which—along with the Mark/Space Contacts conduit—replace the iSync Palm Conduit:
http://www.markspace.com/support/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&root=123&id=2563

How to export Date book and Address book from Palm Desktop to Apple iCal and Address Book?

I have my calendar information and addresses stored in Palm Desktop date book and address book, respectively. I am running Palm Desktop 4.2.1. Everytime I try to export the date book or address book to my desktop using the vCal format, the Palm desktop crashes. My goal is to export all my data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book on the Apple OS (10.6.1). Does anyone have any advice as to how I can do this or do I just have to start from scratch and manually enter the data from Palm Desktop to Apple iCal and Address Book? I looked at the Missing Sync software, but I don't think this will do the trick. The Genius Bar at the Apple Store didn't offer any solutions either. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Hello tay8000m and welcome to the Palm forums.
Have you tried running the "Repair Disk Permissions" command in Apple's Disk Utility application yet? Launch Disk Utility, select "Macintosh HD" from the left side of the window, and then click the "Repair Disk Permissions" button.
After the utility has run, try launching Palm Desktop again and then exporting your data as vCard or iCal files. If the exports aren't working for you, you can always export the data as comma separated values (.csv) file and then import that into the Apple apps you want to use.
Alan G

Palm Tungsten E2 and Mac 10.3.9

I am getting a Palm Tungsten E2. What issues should I be aware of when trying to use it with iSync/OS 10.3.9? I plan on using it to keep my calendar and contacts handy, for the most part.
Also, I foresee upgrading to a new computer within 6 months- will the Tungsten still be useful with the new OS?

First things first...all installations should be updated to 4.0.5.
Bob

Ical, Missing Sync and Palm Treo 680

Most of 2007 was spent trying to get my Palm Lifedrive to Sync with iCal using Missing Sync version 5 thru 6. One day it was fine six days it was not. Nothing I have found to be more infuriating and frustrating as trying to sync my Palm with my Computer.
So, with the arrival of Leopard and the much promised improvements to Sync Services I decided to perform a Clean Install of Leopard on my Powerbook, and run just a few apps on my Powerbook leaving the rest on my new Mini Mac. At the same time I decided to upgrade my Palm Lifedrive to a Palm Treo 680. So, New OS, New Palm, Leopard ready Missing Sync.
1st Sync was spot on. All my data downloaded from .Mac for iCal and AB, sync'ed wonderfully with my Palm Treo. That was on January 7th. Since then iCal absolutely refuses to refresh. And already I am beginning to feel that 2008 and Syncing will be as frustrating as 2007.
Why cannot MarkSpace sit down with Apple and iron out all the crap. For the last couple of days I though I would see if iCal was not communicating with SyncServices by using Entourage. But this only synced with AB and did not touch iCal. To do this I had to use iSync and during the first sync only 144 of 1456 addresses were left on my Palm! iCal - no change!!
So I dumped iSync/Entourage and went back to Missing Sync own Conduits. I got my AB entries back but absolutely nothing from iCal
When I wiped my Powerbook, I cloned the hardrive. Whilst routing around, I found a folder called FileServices in ~libray. This folder was over 12gig in size. What is this folder for and why was it so big? This could explain why my Backup Sets were getting increasing larger than my actual Hardrive even though I was peforming just a daily incremental backup!
Back to iCal. Is there any reason why iCal will not refresh after a so called successful sync with my Treo 680 via Missing Sync v6.0.2?

You might have better luck getting support at Mark/Space the makers of the program. http://support.markspace.com
I did briefly look around there and found this article, not sure if its related to your issue or not.
https://support.markspace.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=395&nav=0,113

Exporting Palm Tungsten E2 contacts and Calendar to Microsoft Outlook 2010

How do I export Palm Tungsten E2 contacts and Calendar to Microsoft Outlook 2010. The normal suggested methods do not seem to work. I have part of the contact list in the Address Book area of Outlook, but have been unable to open the window.
I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.

If you sync with Palm Desktop, you should be able to do it directly on your computer:
Start Button > All Programs > Palm > PIM Conduit Sync > Sync with Outlook
On my Windows 8 installation, when I have the Start screen show all programs, there is an icon for Sync with Outlook. I haven't tried it, because I don't like Outlook.
Hope this helps.
smkranz
I am a volunteer, and not an HP employee.
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ICal Groups and Palm Categories

I've been struggling to get these two programs to work together well and may have finally figured it out. But before I go and screw up my iCal and/or Palm device...
If I name all my categories in my Palm the same as the Events in my iCal Group, will they sync correctly? Or will it end up being a big mish-mosh?
Anyone had any luck doing this?

I don't know - I haven't had any problems at all. Here is how iCal calendar to Palm category is intended to work:
Calendars and Categories
• iCal events are assigned to a Palm category with the same name as the calendar they are part of.
If the category does not exist on the Palm device, the Events conduit creates a category with the calendar name and assigns the event to that category. If that category cannot be added - due to space limitations - the event is added to Unfiled.
• Palm events/tasks that are in a specific category are sent to that calendar in iCal only if a calendar with the same name as the category exists.
If the calendar does not exist, the record will be sent to the calendar that is chosen in the conduit configuration sheet. If the calendar is read only, the event/task will be ignored.
• On the first synchronization of read-only calendars, the items are properly assigned to the correct category on the device.
If any edit is made to an item in a read-only calendar the change is ignored but will persist on the device until something forces it to be overwritten by data from the desktop, like if the R/O item was updated. If an item is assigned to a read-only calendar - a new event, etc - it will be switched to the calendar you have selected in your preferences.
• Calendars listed in the conduit settings are pulled from Sync Services, meaning that if iCal has not finished synchronizing with Sync Services the full list of calendars may not be read.
I'm curious about something…
When you first installed the Missing Sync for Palm OS, did you faithfully follow the instructions to synchronize one final time with iSync - so that your handheld and desktop applications contain essentially identical record sets - and, then set the Mark/Space conduits to Overwrite handheld with desktop data prior to the initial synchronization?

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