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iSync has lost ability to sync incrementally

15" Aluminum 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 running 10.4.8, Address Book 4.0.4 (485.1), iSync 2.3 (500.86), Motorola E815 running software version 8720_01.17.03

I have a Motorola E815 on Verizon. I bought it because it was the first Verizon phone that supported Bluetooth syncing.

I have been syncing my OS X Address Book contacts and iCal data with the phone with no problem for over a year.

I had a kernel panic in January and lost iCal and Address book data. No worries, that gets backed up every morning to my iDisk 🙂. I restored it.

However, since then every time I use iSync it seems to take much longer, along the lines of a full or first-time sync.

For instance, I'll sync, and then remember to add one more contact to my sync set, and sync again. That used to be a really quick sync because it was updating just one change, but now the second sync takes just as long as the first.

Any ideas what might be going on? Why did things change since the restore?

By the way, I think I restored all application preferences, as well. That's one of the items in my daily backup to iDisk, and after that kernel panic a few things were goofy so I restored all applications preferences, not just the address book and iCal data.

15" 1.5 Ghz Aluminum PowerBook G4 (FW 800), Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 8, 2007 5:50 PM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2007 8:04 PM

It sounds as if your events are being forced into slow synchronization mode each time, which should only have happened the first time you synchronized after restoring the data and triggering the next event.

Launch iSync, open the Preferences… dialog and press the Reset Sync History button. That will leave your clients registered and your data intact, but remove any synchronization history from the truth database. When you next trigger an event, it should force a single slow synchronization merging your data, unless you have selected instead to replace the data on your mobile handset. From that point on, it should operate as you expect it to.

Here is a document describing how the Sync Service framework operates:

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/syncservices.html
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Feb 8, 2007 8:04 PM in response to michaeltag

It sounds as if your events are being forced into slow synchronization mode each time, which should only have happened the first time you synchronized after restoring the data and triggering the next event.

Launch iSync, open the Preferences… dialog and press the Reset Sync History button. That will leave your clients registered and your data intact, but remove any synchronization history from the truth database. When you next trigger an event, it should force a single slow synchronization merging your data, unless you have selected instead to replace the data on your mobile handset. From that point on, it should operate as you expect it to.

Here is a document describing how the Sync Service framework operates:

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/syncservices.html

iSync has lost ability to sync incrementally

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