Using iPaq PDA running 2003SE. Have Outlook 2003 on computer at home
and at work, Outlook 2000 on PC at vacation house (occasionally). Use
Outlook for calendar, contacts, tasks and notes -- NOT email.

I want to be able to seamlessly carry and update personal data between
PCs so that wherever I set up I'll be able to easily call up my most
current information.

I tried carrying current data on PDA and relying on sync to update each
computer. Won't work. No option for PDA to overwrite data on PC, and
'sync data together' option produces huge numbers of duplicate entries.

Tried import/export personal data file to bring current data from one PC
to another but that, too, seems to generate duplicate entries and I've
STILL got the PDA sync problem.

The one thing I found that worked is, every single time I want to sync
my PDA data with Outlook on a PC other than the one I used last (which
then sees all the data is foreign and wants to merge everything), I
manually select and erase every single calendar entry, contact, task and
note (using Category View and other shortcuts). THEN I do a sync and
all the PDA data is imported into the "empty" Outlook. Pretty barbaric
approach and time-consuming too.

There must be an easy way to do this as it seems like a basic need but I
can't find it. Most Outlook troubleshooting is about email, which I
don't care about. Help?

WCH wrote:

Using iPaq PDA running 2003SE. Have Outlook 2003 on computer at home
and at work, Outlook 2000 on PC at vacation house (occasionally). Use
Outlook for calendar, contacts, tasks and notes -- NOT email.

I want to be able to seamlessly carry and update personal data between
PCs so that wherever I set up I'll be able to easily call up my most
current information.

I tried carrying current data on PDA and relying on sync to update
each computer. Won't work. No option for PDA to overwrite data on
PC, and 'sync data together' option produces huge numbers of
duplicate entries.

I sync two PCs via an iPAQ all the time. Rarely do I get duplicates
(although it can happen on occasion). However, ActiveSync supports synching
only two PCs. I've never tried it with three. What version of ActiveSync?

Also, this discussion is netter held in
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tpc.activesync . I've
added that group and have set the followup there.
--
Brian Tillman

I'm using ActiveSync 3.8. I don't believe the problem is with
Activesync, though, is it? I'm assuming that my solution is via
settings or approaches to Outlook. I'll pursue any lead, though.
WC

Brian Tillman wrote:
WCH wrote:

Using iPaq PDA running 2003SE. Have Outlook 2003 on computer at home
and at work, Outlook 2000 on PC at vacation house (occasionally). Use
Outlook for calendar, contacts, tasks and notes -- NOT email.

I want to be able to seamlessly carry and update personal data between
PCs so that wherever I set up I'll be able to easily call up my most
current information.

I tried carrying current data on PDA and relying on sync to update
each computer. Won't work. No option for PDA to overwrite data on
PC, and 'sync data together' option produces huge numbers of
duplicate entries.

I sync two PCs via an iPAQ all the time. Rarely do I get duplicates
(although it can happen on occasion). However, ActiveSync supports
synching only two PCs. I've never tried it with three. What version of
ActiveSync?

Also, this discussion is netter held in
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tpc.activesync . I've
added that group and have set the followup there.

WCH wrote:

I'm using ActiveSync 3.8. I don't believe the problem is with
Activesync, though, is it?

All sync issues are ActiveSync issues.

I'm assuming that my solution is via
settings or approaches to Outlook.

There are no sync settings within Outlook.
--
Brian Tillman

Brian Tillman wrote:
WCH wrote:

I'm using ActiveSync 3.8. I don't believe the problem is with
Activesync, though, is it?

All sync issues are ActiveSync issues.

I'm assuming that my solution is via
settings or approaches to Outlook.

There are no sync settings within Outlook.

Then take the PDA and sync issues out of it and help me understand how
to get the scheduling data from one instance of Outlook (at home, let's
say) to the Outlook at work. Even THAT knowledge would be most helpful
to me. And thanks for your responses.

WCH wrote:

Then take the PDA and sync issues out of it and help me understand how
to get the scheduling data from one instance of Outlook (at home,
let's say) to the Outlook at work. Even THAT knowledge would be most
helpful to me. And thanks for your responses.

This may help: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
--
Brian Tillman