Activesync: can handheld overwrite desktop???

[Phaang]

Another (newbie) question from a former Palm user:
Is there any way to force Activesync to accept changes from the handheld over the desktop? My Outlook info got all messed up, but fortunately I have a current backup on my iPAQ that restores on my handheld the correct data. BUT, when I go to sync, the crap data overwrites the handheld good data (techspeak). I've tried resolving, but that didn't work. I tried to use Conflict Resolution under Rules under Options, to no effect.
What gives???
Thanks

[Steven Cedrone]

What gives???

Heh, this has been an ongoing debate...

I have always said we need to have the following options for data conflicts in Activesync (something that I always had with my Palm devices):

Desktop overwrites handheld
Handheld overwrites desktop
Syncronize
Do nothing

But does anybody listen to me? Nah! :wink:

Steve

[Deemo]

I think if you delete the partnership with that PC and then sync it will ask if you want to merge, write to desktop, or write PC to PDA.
Choose to write/replace all PDA data to desktop.
That should work.

[Phaang]

I'll try that, although it seems like a very clumsy way to do things. What's the point of having the ability to back up on the handheld, if it can't overwrite the desktop?

[Deemo]

I'll try that, although it seems like a very clumsy way to do things. What's the point of having the ability to back up on the handheld, if it can't overwrite the desktop?

....because the original idea behind having a synchronised PDA was that you had just one database on multiple systems and didn't need to make multiple changes.
Why would you want to overwrite?
Add a contact to your PC and then have it wiped out?
Clumsy.....no....you just have to quit corrupting your Outlook on your PC and eveything will be fine. :wink:

[Steven Cedrone]

In ActiveSync, under options, rules, conflict resolution: "Always replace items on this computer". That's about as close as you get...

Steve

[Phaang]

Yeah, I always love to go in and corrupt my data in Outlook!
Still, there should be the flexibility to have the data go both ways at my whim. Just makes sense to me.

[jbachandouris]

I know this is an old post, but this is a new issue for me. As for the setting on ActiveStink that says replace items on desktop with handheld data, it does not work. I still get that STUPID combine, replace, or do nothing. Tried deleting the partnership, no change. I really don't want to spend the 1/2 hour of fixing my calender after Active sync screws it up!!


HURRY UP HP AND RELEASE WM5! Please!

[applejosh]

The only case where you can have the PDA overwrite the desktop is when there is a conflict, IIRC. I, too, wish there was a way to overwrite the desktop with PDA data outright. But apparently that's something that is just too much to ask of Microsoft.

[jbachandouris]

Actually, there was a conflict and that setting did absolutely nothing. I ended up haveing to do a combine and then run that freeware program to remove duplicates. Funny, when I went to PC#2, my laptop, it found no conflicts.

[ipaq_wannabe]

I think if you delete the partnership with that PC and then sync it will ask if you want to merge, write to desktop, or write PC to PDA.
Choose to write/replace all PDA data to desktop.
That should work.

i know that there is a merg between the data AND the desktop's data overwriting the PDA...

however, im not sure that there is a PDA overwrite the desktop...

[ipaq_wannabe]

The only case where you can have the PDA overwrite the desktop is when there is a conflict, IIRC. I, too, wish there was a way to overwrite the desktop with PDA data outright. But apparently that's something that is just too much to ask of Microsoft.

let me suggest how i do this - based on the fact that ActiveStink only works with a single folder in Outlook...

DELETE all Calendar, Memo, Tasks and Contacts in the desktop (or at least create an archive to act as a backup)...

DELETE the partnership...

Since youve deleted the partnership, this would be the first sync - and thus, you can choose MERGE!!!

- (at) Axim x50v