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MiBo · 11/26/2004, 08:39 PM

My Mac and Entourage were synchronizing just fine with my Palm m130 and I had similar questions when I got the 650. I feared that running the installation disk would cause an upset of something that was working.

I ran the 650 install disk and it went smoothly. I HotSynced with the button on the cable and it did not work. The problem was that the installer re-activated all the Palm conduits, so they were turned on as well as the Entourage conduit.

I went to HotSync manager and turned off all the Palm conduits which had overlapping function with Palm, and I told the Entourage conduit "Entourage overwrites handheld" for all its functions, then tried again.

This time it almost worked. It stopped in the middle of the date book sync. The error messages were a little unclear, but I finally figured out that the 650 was out of memory.

The reason is that the sync also downloaded some big map files for FireViewer, which I did not want but which were evidently in my Backup folder on the Mac from a long-ago session learning how to put big files on a SD card.

So, I deleted the map files from the Backup folder on the Mac, as well as some applications I didn't need (you won't need Graffiti on the Treo). Then I hard-reset the 650, reset the conduits like I said above, and hot synced.

This time it worked fine. I'm quite happy.

11/26/2004, 08:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
MiBo Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My Mac and Entourage were synchronizing just fine with my Palm m130 and I had similar questions when I got the 650. I feared that running the installation disk would cause an upset of something that was working. I ran the 650 install disk and it went smoothly. I HotSynced with the button on the cable and it did not work. The problem was that the installer re-activated all the Palm conduits, so they were turned on as well as the Entourage conduit. I went to HotSync manager and turned off all the Palm conduits which had overlapping function with Palm, and I told the Entourage conduit "Entourage overwrites handheld" for all its functions, then tried again. This time it almost worked. It stopped in the middle of the date book sync. The error messages were a little unclear, but I finally figured out that the 650 was out of memory. The reason is that the sync also downloaded some big map files for FireViewer, which I did not want but which were evidently in my Backup folder on the Mac from a long-ago session learning how to put big files on a SD card. So, I deleted the map files from the Backup folder on the Mac, as well as some applications I didn't need (you won't need Graffiti on the Treo). Then I hard-reset the 650, reset the conduits like I said above, and hot synced. This time it worked fine. I'm quite happy.