Syncing iCal and Address Book w/ my Treo 650 (Who overwrites who?)
I am able to sync both address book and ical with my treo 650.
My question is:
1. When I change a date or contact's info on my treo why does it not change that entry on my Mac? It adds a different one.
2. Each time I sync I get the message for both Address book and iCal that entries will be deleted or modified on my computer. The numbers are not consistent each time I sync. I usually have to cancel the sync because many entries (I'm not sure which ones) will be deleted. How do I tell iSync or Hotsync Manager that my Computer gets priority?
Sometimes I get the conflict window that asks which entries (iCal or Treo) should be kept.
Any ideas?
MacBook Intel Core 2 Dou - Black - 1 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.9) G4 - 733 MHz (Quicksilver) - 768 MB RAM
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
The synchronization framework should not behave as you describe. It appears that your truth database has become irreversibly corrupted, a condition which is easily corrected. Repeated cancellation of synchronization events likely has contributed to or amplified the underlying data corruption issue.
A couple of basics: all participants in this process, generally referred to as synchronization clients, are peers. They do not interact directly with each other, but rather through a process of pushing changes to and pulling changes from the truth database. You cannot set one to 'override' another, though you can reset both history [which empties the truth database, leaves your clients registered and your data intact, and results in a slow, initial synchronization during the next triggered event] and data—if using .Mac Sync—[which allows you to replace all contact, event and task records stored on your computer with those stored on the .Mac servers, or visa versa.]
The Conflict Manager is only invoked when iSync sees records with differences it cannot resolve at the field, rather than record, level. In such cases, it asks you to choose one record which most accurately represents the collection of data you want to keep for that contact, event or task.
To reset your synchronization history and prompt a complete restoration of your truth database, do this:
• launch iSync
• open the Preferences… dialog
• press the Reset Sync History… button
This Apple developer document explains how these process work, and may clarify some of these issues for you.
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