ISync Palm Conduit

Hello,
I have a "Palm Tungsten T3". I want to form "iSync", so I give
him "to activate synchronization with device OS",the problem is in which NEVER conduit in the Hotsync settles to manager. I already have to re-instal the system but it continues happening.
That I can do so that my "palm" and iCalendar or iBook, communicates?
I have "tiger" 10.4.11/iSync 2.4/Pal Desktop 4.2.1.
Thank you

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ISync Palm Conduit with third party conduits?

Although we use the iSync Palm conduit to sync our Address Book data to our Palm devices, we use Meeting Maker as our calendar application. This has been fine under Panther...we would turn off calendar syncing in the iSync conduit and the respective data would synchronize properly. But under Tiger, the Palm conduit installed by iSync checks to see if there are third party conduits installed and if so, insists on disabling them. We can manually move the Meeting Maker conduits back into the Conduits directory, but anytime iSync is opened, it gives an alert that conflicting conduits need to be moved. This is most frustrating, especially considering that the whole process ran perfectly under Panther. Is there any fix or hack that can prevent the problem under iSync in Tiger?

Actually, there is a simple fix. Although this step was not necessary under Mac OS X releases prior to Mac OS X 10.4, you now must uncheck the Calendar option in iSync, quit the program, then toss this iSync preference file:
com.apple.isync.plist
You will find that file here:
Macintosh HD:Users:<username>:Library:Preferences
When you next launch iSync, that preference file will be recreated, but you will now be able to synchronize your contact data with the Address Book using iSync and your calendaring data with Meeting Maker.

ISync palm conduit in 10.5 - won't work under user imported from 10.4?

My Palm m500 was syncing fine with my PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.4
I recently got a spiffy new MacBook Pro (Penryn) with 10.5, and although the Palm does communicate and sync via Palm Desktop, it no longer syncs via iSync with iCal & Address Book. I keep getting the following in the hotsync log:
< snip >
OK Install
iSync Conduit starting 3/13/08 10:38:34 PM
iSync Conduit: received NULL message, disconnecting...
OK iSync Conduit
</ snip >
==========
Other info:
I imported the user info for my main user from the old 10.4 installation using Migration Assistant.
• Deleted old Palm HotSync & Desktop files from the username:Library:Application Support, as palm preference files from username:Library:Preferences
• Copied the old user folder to an alternate location, and removed the Palm folder from username:Documents:
• Re-installed Palm Desktop 4.2.1 under main user (authorized as an "administrator" temporarily)
• Sync worked (no data on Palm Desktop, but everything backed up ok), HotSync even recovers and creates a new user based on the data on the device, and even backs up all the programs.
• Enabled Palm Os Syncing from within iSync (works fine, so long as the account being used has read/write permissions to HD:Library:Application Support:Palm HotSync:Conduits)
• "Enable iSync for this palm device" from the iSync conduit within HotSync Manager.
During a sync, iSync kicks in and "connects", but can't get past AddressBook syncing, and never actually sends info to the Palm device. Presumably, this is where the "NULL message" is received and syncing stops. When I specify "Erase data on device then sync" in iSync (for first syncronization), it does indeed erase address book data on the device, but never sends anything to replace it, but also does not touch the calendar data on the palm device.
Furthermore, I tried the same procedure when logged in as another administrator account (what is normally the main administrator account on this computer), and synced first without iSync, then enabling "iSync for this Palm device". Under this other account, the syncing works. I can add events to iCal, and contacts to address book, and they are transferred sucessfully and synced with the palm device. But it still does not work when logged in as the main user (even when administrator privileges are enabled, which I normally don't want), which actually has all my iCal and Address book data (which syncs successfully through .Mac with my computer at work).
There should be plenty of free space on the device for all my calendar & contact data (3MB).
Given that syncing DOES work for one administrator user (which was never before set-up for this), but not for the user that was imported from 10.4 and was syncing successfully before, I have a suspicion that there's either some leftover files that I missed, or a permissions conflict within the user's home folder that I am missing. Has anyone else been able to resolve this issue, or have any suggestions based on this information?
Much appreciated.

Experimentation reveals that:
• replacing the old addressbook data with blank allows syncing to work without problems.
• having multiple groups causes the same error: BUT only on the first sync (set to “Erase data on device then sync”, but also if set to “merge”). Adding groups after a successful initial sync did not interfere with further syncs.
• deleting groups from existing AddressBook data does allow a successful first sync.
• but adding them back in again breaks the sync.
Having no groups would seem to allow a successful sync.
see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6805570&#6805570
I don’t want to have to limit myself to this. I do use groups rather a lot and it would be frustrating to have to give up using them just so I can sync my Palm in Leopard.
The following does NOT solve the problem:
1. Move old Address Book data to a backup location (after exporting AddressBook library)
2. do a first sync
3. re-import full Address Book data from archive
4. continue with regular syncs.
• only sync one Group still leads to the same error.
• iSync 2 doesn’t run under Leopard (error message along the lines of “You can’t use this software with this version of Mac OS”).
• I also tried to use the previous iSync palm conduit (v3.0.2 instead of v3.1.0), but got the same errors.
For now, I removed all the groups and synced my contacts to my Palm, but I then turned off syncing for contacts within iSync, so I could recover all my Address Book Groups. Fortunately, I need to update Calendar information more often than contact info, and I won’t be able to change contact info on the Palm device. When I do want to do a periodic update to my Palm device, I will have to:
1. Backup my address book
2. Delete all groups (but not the contacts within them, which stay in the library itself)
3. Turn contact syncing on in iSync
4. Sync the Palm device
5. Turn contact syncing OFF in iSync
6. Recover my Address Book Library & groups from backup
Not as simple as I would expect from Apple software ... I hope this issue gets fixed in iSync 3 (Leopard).

Can't open iSync Palm Conduit

I'm trying to synchronize my new Palm Z22 with iCal and Address book. Michael Lafferty solved my original problem of not getting iSync. I have downloaded iSync Palm Conduit and it appears as a "pkg" and was said to be installed successfully. However, it doesn't show up as a usable program and iSync doesn't detect my Palm device.
iMacG5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

It isn't a program - it's a conduit. The process of running the installer placed a copy of the iSync Palm Conduit—which appears simply as Apple in the Finder, or iSync Conduit in the HotSync conduit list—in your active Conduits folder.
And, your device will not show up in iSync until you add it using the HotSync Manager or the HotSync menu option of the Palm Desktop to configure it, by selecting the conduit and checking the box labeled Enable iSync for this Palm device.

Installing iSync Palm Conduit

Using an iMac G5 with 10.4.3
I tried to install iSyncPalm.dmg and got the message: iSync Palm Conduites cannot be installed on this computer.
iSync Palm Conduit requries iSync to be insatlled first. Problem is that iSync is installed and is visible in the menu at the top right of the computer. How do fix this problem?

The iSync Palm Conduit package you downloaded - version 1.2 - cannot be installed on a machine running iSync 2 or later. That conduit is intended for use only with iSync 1.5 or earlier.
iSync 2 and later for use with Mac OS X 10.4 and later has the conduit 'built-in' and it is installed when you setup up iSync to synchronize a Palm device. To do so…
• launch iSync
• select the option to Enable Palm OS Syncing… from the Devices menu
• follow the instructions which appear in the dialog box
You do not add a Palm device to iSync using the Add Device… option as with other devices. It is added - and the iSync Palm Conduit installed and activated - as a result of the steps I outlined above.
Make sure that before you do this, you have installed or updated the Palm Desktop to version 4.2.1 release D if your Palm device is supported by this package. More information is available here:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/macintosh/macdesk421revd.html

ISync palm conduit does not allow Mac overwrite palm, or does it?

A HUGE problem I am seeing with iSync is there is no way to force it to set one device to overwrite a flawed one.
I had my Palm loose its data. No problem thiis had happened once before and i set my palm desktop hotsync to have Mac overwrite Palm.
This time the iSync conduit does not allow that, it doesn't allow anything! so I tried it and wow, it synced the palm as NEWER data and wiped out my address book and calander, NOW that was useful.
I restored from a .Mac backup and tossed the palm aside.
Now my wife has lost her palm data and we need to figure out how to put her Palm desktop data onto her palm, but I'm afraid to use isync but it won't let her use the old PalmDesktop asddress and calander conduits
What should we do now?
How can I get rid of iSync and use the Palm Hotsync
OR
How can I set a direction in iSync, none of the menus show anything like this.
At this point I would have to say iSync and other devices that have had Dataloss *****
any help is appreciated
Bruce

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
There is no explicit directional control for data flow in iSync under most circumstances, and this is clearly a shortcoming of the program itself and of the iSync Palm Conduit. This limitation can be overcome, but you need a thorough understanding of what your options are, and what your responsibilities should be to avoid data loss.
In general terms, iSync works to 'equalize' data sets on each device in your pool, by taking additions, changes and deletions made on any device and transferring these additions, changes and deletions to all other devices during the synchronization process. Understanding that, you can see that if you reset your Palm device in a manner which removes your calendaring, tasks and contact data, then a synchronization will remove the matching records from both iCal and the Address Book.
To avoid data loss following such a substantial change on any device in your pool, you should back up your iCal and Address Book data using the backup feature built into each application prior to initiating the next synchronization. That way, should the data be removed during an event, it can be immediately restored to the state it was just prior to that synchronization event.
You can overwrite your Palm device to avoid this sort of problem only when iSync 'believes' that you are performing a first-time synchronization. That situation can be triggered by either…
• first removing your device from iSync, then choosing to Enable Palm OS Syncing… again, or by
• opening the iSync Preferences… dialog and pressing the Reset Sync History… button under the Advanced section
When you next try to synchronize, you will be asked if you want to Merge or Replace data: choose Replace to overwrite the data on your handheld device.
Admittedly, this application is very poorly documented, and - at times - clearly unreliable. It's easy to understand why you would not have been aware of the catastrophic loss of data that loomed before you as you prepared to synchronize your data, believing that it would be restored to your Palm device.
You can certainly stop using iSync and return to the Palm Desktop, but that precludes synchronizing your data with iCal and the Address Book, so that option is not as nearly attractive as it might seem at first glance.
PowerBook G4 12 867 MHz 640 meg 40 gig SuperDrive Mac OS X (10.4.3) What problem? I use the The Missing Sync for Palm OS

ISync Palm Conduit cannot be configured with the HotSync Manager UPDATE

First, I apologize for the SPAM-like posting of the material below in the existing threads regarding this issue. It is—unfortunately—the most effective way to garner the attention of earlier posters and gather this information.
Apple continues to investigate the issue, and needs this information to isolate and identify the problem. It is characterized by the apparently successful installation of the bundled iSync Palm Conduit using the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option in iSync 2.4 with either Mac OS X 10.4.9 or 10.4.10, but with the result that this conduit—normally visible in and configurable with the HotSync Manager—cannot be seen and therefore not configured.
In order to help Apple software engineers isolate and identify this issue—if you are affected by this specific issue—can you please provide the precise build number for the operating system on the machine that exhibit this problem?
To do so, select About This Mac from the Apple menu, and—beneath the Mac OS X label—press the Version 10.4.9 or Version 10.4.10 label. That value will change to something like 8P1xxx. Please respond to this message with that build number, the version of Mac OS X 10.4.x you have installed, and the last three digits of your machine serial number.
Thank you in advance for providing this information.

First, I apologize for the SPAM-like posting of the material below in the existing threads regarding this issue. It is—unfortunately—the most effective way to garner the attention of earlier posters and gather this information.
Apple continues to investigate the issue, and needs this information to isolate and identify the problem. It is characterized by the apparently successful installation of the bundled iSync Palm Conduit using the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option in iSync 2.4 with either Mac OS X 10.4.9 or 10.4.10, but with the result that this conduit—normally visible in and configurable with the HotSync Manager—cannot be seen and therefore not configured.
In order to help Apple software engineers isolate and identify this issue—if you are affected by this specific issue—can you please provide the precise build number for the operating system on the machine that exhibit this problem?
To do so, select About This Mac from the Apple menu, and—beneath the Mac OS X label—press the Version 10.4.9 or Version 10.4.10 label. That value will change to something like 8P1xxx. Please respond to this message with that build number, the version of Mac OS X 10.4.x you have installed, and the last three digits of your machine serial number.
Thank you in advance for providing this information.

Isync and Palm conduit conflicts

I use iCal for my calendar and Address Book to maintain my contact info, but I prefer the Palm to-do list over iCal's - is it possible for me to sync this combination of applications? I was once able to do this (by moving conduits disabled by iSync back into my Palm HotSync conduits folder), but this is no longer working. The (apparently) relevant portion of my HotSync Log shows:
Loading “Apple”
Conduit “iSync Conduit” version 3.0.0
Sync type is Fast
iSync Conduit starting 7/6/07 12:12:47 PM
User jkotzen configured for Palm To Do List conduit and corresponding iSync data class, skipping iSync to avoid conflicting modifications 7/6/07 12:12:47 PM
iSync Conduit: Sending Error Response 6: User jkotzen configured for Palm To Do List conduit and corresponding iSync data class 7/6/07 12:12:48 PM
iSync Conduit: received NULL message, disconnecting... 7/6/07 12:12:48 PM
OK iSync Conduit
I'm using :
- iSync v2.4 & Mac OS X v10.4.9 on a PowerBook G4,
- Palm Desktop v4.2.2, and
- a Palm Treo 680
Any advice?
thank you!

It is actually possible to do what you want, but an an additional step is required since the release of Mac OS X 10.4.
A quick review…
What you want to do essentially violates the unwritten 'rule of conduits' which states that you cannot simultaneously synchronize a given data type with more than one conduit. iSync will synchronize contact, event and task data only with the Address Book and iCal. In general, if you wish to synchronize such data with the Palm Desktop, you must cease using iSync and revert to the Palm Desktop.
It is possible, however, to configure your machine to synchronize contacts with the Palm Desktop and events and tasks with iCal, or—as you wish—contacts with the Address Book and events and tasks with iCal.
In order to do so, launch iSync and select your Palm device in the main window. In the drop-down pane which appears, be sure that you disable event and task synchronization by deselecting the Calendars category, but leave the Contacts category enabled. Then quit iSync, and remove the com.apple.isync.plist file from this folder:
Macintosh HD:Users:<username>:Library:Preferences
Do not remove the co-located com.apple.isync.registry.plist file.
[Don't launch iSync again until you have completed the steps outlined below.]
Make sure that these conduits are in the active Conduits folder:
• Calendar Conduit
• Datebook Conduit
• Tasks Conduit
• ToDo Conduit
NOTE: While this has nothing to do with your issue—if you have not already done so—move the Memo Conduit and Memos Conduit back into the active folder [from which the iSync Palm Conduit installation process previously removed them] to restore memo synchronization to the Palm Desktop.
In addition, the iSync Palm Conduit should be in the active Conduits folder.
These conduits should not be, and instead should be stored in the Disabled Conduits folder:
• Address Conduit
• Contacts Conduit
Once these conduits are arranged in the active and disabled folders, you may launch iSync and it will synchronize your contacts with the Address Book, and your events and tasks will be synchronized with the Palm Desktop instead of with iCal.

Download iSync 1.2 Palm Conduit but can not use synchronize my Palm

I bought iPod Touch (32G) and I want to use only this device from now on, but I have problems to find a suitable way to synchronize all my contacts and calendar information from my old Palm V into the iMac address book and iCal and finally into my new iPod Touch.
What I tried to do until now was, that I download 'iSync 1.2 Palm Conduit' and I want to install but the system told me „iSync Palm Conduit“ can not be installed on this computer, for this version of "iSync Palm Conduit" you have firstly to install iSync 1.2!
On my iMac programs I found "iSync" program version 3.0.2. so I tried to find the version 1.2. in the Apple-world but I had no success to find this version.
Please can somebody help me out to solve this problem and to find a suitable way to synchronize my Palm information to my iMac and iPod Touch? Also answers in German language are welcome! Thank you in advance and have a great day!

I want to replace my palm V and I want to use iCal and the Mac address book and my new iPod touch in future, so that means I intend to invoke a one-time unidirectional transfer of contact information to the Address Book and iCal to support future synchronization of an iPod Touch via iTunes?
No further sync operation with Palm devices required. I do not intend to continue to synchronize my Palm V in the future with the Palm Desktop or the Address Book and iCal using iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit! As far as I understand in case I want to use iSync I needs to have in general a Bluetooth device to perform the sync operation, so and my old Palm V do not have this function!
As newcomer in the Mac-World I have firstly no idea about MobileMe, so I do not intend at the moment to synchronize contact, event and task data with the MobileMe environment!
And finally I deleted the Palm Desktop already because I made some thing wrong.
You can help me now and let me know how I get my contacts to the MAc address book and my calender information to iCal?
Thank you in advance and kind regards.

Can't sync/can't load Palm conduit. Why?

Well I'm in a bind.
My Palm desktop and User Data were corrupted and/or deleted. All of the data survive on the 500-series handheld only, and I need to back them up.
Unfortunately the latest Palm Desktop software download is faulty when loaded on OS 10.3.9 The Hotsync function is kaput -- something about a shared library error.(Discussions of this abound on this and other sites).
I thought I'd try iSynch for the first time, just to back up the data SOMEwhere. I'd use MissingSynch, but I fear overwriting all of my handheld data.
When I try to load the iSync Palm Conduit the installer says that it is unable to load it onto my Mac-- despite the fact that I have the appropriate iCal, iSynch, etc.
Suggestions? What gives?

This is actually the most commonly encountered configuration problem with the Palm Desktop and Mac OS X. It's a Palm permissions folder problem, not an issue with the HotSync Manager per se, and is usually the result of a decision by a user to install Mac OS X 10.4.x using the archive and install option.
In your case, before proceed to correct the issue, you should upgrade the current installation of the Palm Desktop to 4.2.1 revision D, available here:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/macintosh/macdesk421revd.html
That package will support your m500 handheld organizer. Once you've reinstalled the Palm Desktop, pick one of these two approaches to correct the problem with your configuration:
Take a look at the permissions of the folders listed below by selecting each folder, one at a time, and—either using the I key sequence or the Get Info option in the File menu of the Finder—opening the information box for the folder. Your permissions for the folders listed below should appear as described below the pathname to that folder:
For the Macintosh HD:Applications:Palm folder:
Ownership & Permissions
You can: Read & Write
Details
Owner: <shortusername>
Access: Read & Write
Group: admin
Access: Read & Write
Others: Read only
For the Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:Palm Desktop folder:
Ownership & Permissions
You can: Read & Write
Details
Owner: <shortusername>
Access: Read & Write
Group: admin
Access: Read & Write
Others: Read only
For the Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:Palm HotSync folder:
Ownership & Permissions
You can: Read & Write
Details
Owner: <shortusername>
Access: Read & Write
Group: admin
Access: Read & Write
Others: Read only
You can either reset those values manually, [then restart and recheck them to be sure that they are set correctly] or use the Terminal application by typing these strings listed below this example—substituting your short user name—as shown below:
sample: "sudo chown -R <shortusername>:admin /Applications/Palm"
actual: "sudo chown -R michaellafferty:admin /Applications/Palm"
…where michaellafferty is the <shortusername> in my case. Be sure to pay attention to the spaces in each string, and the direction of the / or \ [forward and back slash] characters.
Here are the appropriate Terminal entries. Each is is shown bulleted below, but actually begins with the term sudo:
• sudo chown -R <shortusername>:admin /Applications/Palm
[NOTE: at this point, you'll be asked to enter your login password]
• sudo chmod -R 775 /Applications/Palm
• sudo chown -R <shortusername>:admin /Library/Application\ Support/Palm\ HotSync/
• sudo chmod -R 775 /Library/Application\ Support/Palm\ HotSync/
• sudo chown -R <shortusername>:admin /Library/Application\ Support/Palm\ Desktop/
• sudo chmod -R 775 /Library/Application\ Support/Palm\ Desktop/
Again, pay particular attention to the spaces and to the \ characters, as both are critical to the syntax of these commands. Remember to place your actual shortusername in the string where the <shortusername> placeholder is shown, as in the sample above. [Do not include the < and > characters around your actual shortusername.]
As a Palm user, don't elect to archive and install Mac OS X unless there is no other method to do so which insures that your applications and data are preserved.

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.

ISync/Palm Zire 21 question

Please forgive me if this has been answered. I searched the board and don't see my question answered.
Palm Zire 21: for the first 3 days, everything was fine except everytime I did an iSync, I had to reset the Palm (change the date, fix the time, etc.). I do not use, and hope I don't need to use, the Palm Desktop software.
I have Hot Sync 3.2 (Enabled) and iSync 2.3 (Palm Sync Enabled).
In an attempt to fix this/start from scratch, I got the following message: "In order for iSync to work properly with your Palm OS device, the following HotSync conduits need to be disabled.
Address
Calendar
Contacts
Datebook
etc.
After hitting "OK", those conduits no longer show up in the HotSync>Conduit Settings window (they are all in the Disabled Conduits folder now)
Now iCal and To Do lists sync just fine, but no addresses show up in Palm AND I have to RESET every single time.
Can you please help me understand why this would be so? What is markspace.com and do I need to get the "missing sync" there?
Thank you Thank you Thank you in advance.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Something clearly isn't right. Likely several things, actually.
The contents of your active Conduits folder show no conduit conflicts. A couple of thoughts, though…
You should move the Memo, Memos, Note Pad, Photos and Voice Memo temporarily to the Disabled Conduits folder to eliminate the possibility that any of these (maybe extraneous) Palm conduits are the root of the reset problem. The result will be that your Palm memos will no longer synchronize with the Palm Desktop, but that can be restored by moving the later Memos conduit back into the active folder. If the reset problem is no longer apparent when these conduits are not active, then one issue may be resolved.
Open the HotSync Manager application on your Macintosh and check to see that the following conditions are true:
• HotSync is set to Enabled in the HotSync Controls tab, and
• USB is checked in the Connection Settings tab
What does your HotSync log—as opposed to the iSync log—say about these events?
Have you configured the synchronization parameters for your device in iSync by pressing the device icon labeled with your HotSync name to drop down a pane in which you select various contact and calendaring options? Are both Contacts and Calendars enabled?
When you say, "… the only thing that's now uploading to my Palm is my To Do list" are you sure that in fact, it is to do and not memo information that is being transfered? I ask, because with the iSync Palm Conduit, to do or task data is synchronized by it with iCal, whereas there is no provision in iSync to synchronize memos. And, if iCal task data works, one has to wonder why event data does not synchronize…

ISync, Palm Treo 650, and my sanity

Just bought a Palm Treo 650 this evening and I'm having the hardest time.
Been trying to iSync via USB with mixed luck. I installed the software that came with the phone, made sure my HotSync settings were correct, and hit the Hotsync button on the USB cable.
Nothing happened for several tries. Was as if the cable was broken as the Palm just couldn't contact the computer and would eventually time out.
Then when I used the AC adapter along with the USB I got a different result. The Palm and Mac were now talking. But it did give me errors regarding the conduits being in conflict. So I changed the settings on some of the conduits and I finally got a successful sync.
Well semi-successful. Some of the stuff didn't seem to be syncing. Like some of my iCal entries. So I found an article showing how to drag some of the conduits to the Disabled folder. Which I did. And now ever since I cannot seem to get the the Palm and Mac to talk again. I get the "Connecting with the desktop using Cradle/Cable" for a while and then the "The connection between your handheld computer and the desktop could not be established. Please check your setup and try again."
Anyone know where I'm going wrong? Would really appreciate some help/advice.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
There are apparently several issues in play here. So long as you are willing to live the the limitations of the iSync Palm Conduit and synchronize via only one path—either USB or Bluetooth, but not selectively moving back and forth between the two—you can configure iSync to synchronize contact data with the Address Book and calendaring and task data with iCal.
With the exception of non-conflicting conduits like Memos, you will be unable to synchronize at all with the Palm Desktop. [Palm conduits which conflict with iSync are those used by various models to synchronize contacts—Address Conduit and Contact Conduit—those used to synchronize calendars—Calendars Conduit and Datebook Conduit—and those used to synchronize tasks—Tasks Conduit and ToDo Conduit.]
Unless you thoroughly understand how this technology works, it's not a great idea to 'experiment' by moving conduits manually. A properly configured Conduits folder for iSync users should contain at least…
• Apple [the Finder name of the iSync Palm Conduit]
• Backup
• Install
• Memos Conduit [only if you want to continue to synchronize memos to the Palm Desktop]
• any non-conflicting third-party or additional conduits you want to use
Other conduits should reside in the Disabled Conduits folder.
You add a Palm device, either via USB or Bluetooth, using the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option under the Devices menu of iSync. You set the synchronization parameters for your device in the drop-down configuration pane exposed when you press the Tungsten icon in the main window of iSync.
You did the right thing by installing the Palm Desktop software using the bundled CD-ROM that shipped with your Treo 650. But, you should have upgraded that application by applying the Palm Desktop 4.2.1 revision D, available here:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/macintosh/macdesk421revd.html
If you elect to upgrade your copy, just run that installer. Do not attempt to remove any existing components of the Palm Desktop. And keep in mind that though you may not choose to use it at all, its HotSync Manager and Transport Monitor components are critical to the operation of iSync.

ISync & Palm Treo failure

Hi folks,
Was a fairly happy user of iBook g4 OS 10.3.9 and Palm Treo 650 until sync'ing failed sometime last month. I had been using iSync to sync PDA contacts with Address Book, PDA calendar with iCal, and PDA Tasks with iCal as well (didn't realize that Memos sync with nothing, they are lost forever apparently). In late February I downloaded the Palm daylite savings time patch, seemingly successfully. Gotta wonder whether DST or the patch caused all this, huh? Anyway, I suffered a complete failure of my Palm Treo during a hotsync in March. It got stuck in a hotsync-reset loop. I had to do a hard reset. Of course, that wiped out everything on it. I tried to do a hotsync to reload everything, but hotsync process fails midway through. So I restored my Palm with BackupPro (I made backups way too infrequently, last one was months ago). Been reloading software (mostly medical stuff) ever since and slowly getting it to work.
BUT, it is still crashing during hotsync unless I deactivate the iSync conduit. Specifically, the iBook and Treo sync the install files successfully, then it starts iSync stuff, successfully sync's the AddressBook-Contacts, then tries to sync the calendar-iCal stuff. It tries, it tries, it waits, then the Treo resets itself while the iBook keeps trying to reset. When I finally cancel the failed hotsync, I get this error report in the hotsync log:
iSync Conduit starting 4/12/07 10:51:14 PM
Setting Hello Response, type is PalmSyncTypeFast, language is 0 (BladeLanguageEnglish) 4/12/07 10:51:25 PM
Warning: couldn't get record 338 for database DatebookDB, skipping the rest of the database 4/12/07 10:56:21 PM
Warning: SyncPurgeDeletedRecs returned 268461072 for database DatebookDB 4/12/07 10:57:22 PM
Warning: SyncResetSyncFlags returned 268461072 for database DatebookDB 4/12/07 10:57:22 PM
Warning: SyncCloseDB returned 268461072 for database DatebookDB 4/12/07 10:57:22 PM
OK iSync Conduit
HotSync Canceled 4/12/07 10:57:22 PM
I tried another hotsync, here's the log, this time from iSync itself:
11:13:15 PM Connecting to Josh's Palm
11:13:15 PM Synchronizing contacts
11:13:15 PM Getting changes from Address Book
11:13:16 PM contacts: 1 modified
11:13:16 PM Getting changes from Josh's Palm
11:13:21 PM Filtering contacts on Josh's Palm
11:13:21 PM Completed synchronizing contacts
11:13:22 PM Synchronizing calendars and To Do items
11:13:23 PM Error An internal error occurred. Please try syncing again.
11:13:23 PM Error Assertion Failed!
11:13:23 PM Error Expression: fdoRet != fdoedatabase
11:13:23 PM Error File: Source/SyncEngine/FDODriver.cpp
11:13:23 PM Error Line: 411
11:13:23 PM Error INTERNAL ERROR: unhandled error (Assertion failure: File Source/SyncEngine/FDODriver.cpp, Line 411: fdoRet != fdoedatabase).
11:13:25 PM Synchronization complete
Can anyone suggest what is going wrong? I have some pretty important data trapped now in iCal calendar and To-Do list while my Treo's calendar and tasks remain empty. I am using OS 10.3.9, iSync 1.5, iSync Palm conduit package 1.2 (if I'm listing that last item correctly).
iBook g4/933 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Cingular Treo 650 with Palm Desktop 4.2.1 and latest firmware/software

With regard to memos: when the iSync Palm Conduit is installed, the script deactivates the Memo Conduit and Memos Conduit. You can reactivate them by dragging them from the Disabled Conduits folder back into the active Conduits Folder. Both are found here:
Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:Palm HotSync
The installation process does not delete them from the Palm Desktop. They remain there, but are not updated unless and until you reactivate the conduits.
With regard to the iSync error: Warning: couldn't get record 338 for database DatebookDB, skipping the rest of the database
That error indicates that the corrupted record resides on your Palm device, and not in iCal. To correct that problem, you should remove your device from iSync, add it back again using the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option and choose to Replace the records on your Palm device, rather than Merge items with them.

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.

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