iCal and my Palm Zire 31

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iCal and my Palm Zire 31

I'm very sorry if this question has been asked many times before but I have no clue what to keywords to search with. I've been a PC user for years, and finally just switched over to Macs. To synchronize my palm I've always just used the Palm Desktop program; However, iCal seems like a much better program. The problem is whenever I sync my palm to my computer, all new events made on my palm go into the unfiled folder. I have alot of different customized categories and I would like have it all the same between iCal and my Zire like it was with Palm Desktop. Thanks very much for any help!

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 31, 2007 3:07 PM

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Mar 31, 2007 4:01 PM in response to cuiule

Welcome to Apple Discussions.

The 'all Palm-created events are moved to an Unfiled calendar' problem is a shortcoming of the iSync Palm Conduit. While you can assign such events to any other single iCal calendar instead, you cannot synchronize across multiple calendars using the iSync Palm Conduit. There is no workaround.

You can use the Missing Sync for Palm OS, which has been written to avoid such shortcomings, synchronizes additional data effectively ignored by the iSync Palm Conduit, and respects assigned field labels. More information about that application is available here:

http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php

Your Zire 31 isn't considered an advanced Palm device—one which has Palm OS 5.4 or later on board—so you won't benefit from all of the available features in the Missing Sync for Palm OS. To do so, you would need a Zire Z22, a Treo 650 or later smartphone, a LifeDrive or a Tungsten E2, T5 or T|X handheld organizer. Still, the application does a much better job with any supported Palm device than iSync does.

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