Tranferring roster from Outlook to PDA - problems
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Tranferring roster from Outlook to PDA - problems
Can anyone help me
I have my roster in outlook - downloaded via 3rd party software. No problems there - it has my report times sector times etc - all listed as appointments.
When I sync to my phone they transfer without any problems - I can look at tommorrow - 1st item is report a x time and so on.
When I sync with my PDA it all goes horribly wrong! The items are no longer listed as appointments - they are converted to 'all day events' for some reason. I now have an all day event as 'report' - absolutely useless - and since the sector times were also simply the 'appointment' times they have all gone too. It also tends to shift some sectors by a day or so, so I can have nothing listed today, then 7 sectors tomorrow (no I don't work low cost
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I have tried deleting the partnership, deleting all the info then re-establishing - it worked once, a few months ago - all the times came back; but no more.
Am I missing something obvious?
As far as I can see since it works with my phone the data in outlook is fine - that leaves the sync software or the pda software.
It is an old pda - ipaq 2490 I think running pocket win 2003
I am using: activesync 4.2.0 - which I believe is the latest
outlook 2002
the info was imported as a vcal file if it makes any difference
I realise that several hunderd pounds of upgrading to the latest of everything would probably solve the issue - but all I want is to transfer my calender from my pc to my pda - not too much to ask surely?
I have my roster in outlook - downloaded via 3rd party software. No problems there - it has my report times sector times etc - all listed as appointments.
When I sync to my phone they transfer without any problems - I can look at tommorrow - 1st item is report a x time and so on.
When I sync with my PDA it all goes horribly wrong! The items are no longer listed as appointments - they are converted to 'all day events' for some reason. I now have an all day event as 'report' - absolutely useless - and since the sector times were also simply the 'appointment' times they have all gone too. It also tends to shift some sectors by a day or so, so I can have nothing listed today, then 7 sectors tomorrow (no I don't work low cost
)I have tried deleting the partnership, deleting all the info then re-establishing - it worked once, a few months ago - all the times came back; but no more.
Am I missing something obvious?
As far as I can see since it works with my phone the data in outlook is fine - that leaves the sync software or the pda software.
It is an old pda - ipaq 2490 I think running pocket win 2003
I am using: activesync 4.2.0 - which I believe is the latest
outlook 2002
the info was imported as a vcal file if it makes any difference
I realise that several hunderd pounds of upgrading to the latest of everything would probably solve the issue - but all I want is to transfer my calender from my pc to my pda - not too much to ask surely?
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Now I'm really confused
Just thought I would manually add an appointment - tranferred fine.
So I then opened one of the sectors on the PC and saved it - nothing.
I then opened it, checked the 'all day' box (which was empty - appointment times were there), un-checked it and saved it - transferred fine!
So if I open each appointment, mess with it, put it back as it was and save it it transfers!
There seems to be some sort of 'phantom' selection of the 'all-day appointment' box which my PDA picks up on, but not my phone or my PC
Just thought I would manually add an appointment - tranferred fine.
So I then opened one of the sectors on the PC and saved it - nothing.
I then opened it, checked the 'all day' box (which was empty - appointment times were there), un-checked it and saved it - transferred fine!
So if I open each appointment, mess with it, put it back as it was and save it it transfers!
There seems to be some sort of 'phantom' selection of the 'all-day appointment' box which my PDA picks up on, but not my phone or my PC
There seems to be some sort of 'phantom' selection of the 'all-day appointment' box which my PDA picks up on, but not my phone or my PC
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Some advice from elsewhere was to use the .csv (comma seperated value) format rather than the vcal for the import.
Seems to have done the trick (although I still don't know why it worked on the phone before)
Seems to have done the trick (although I still don't know why it worked on the phone before)
