maikii
04-08-2006, 08:25 PM
I am new to WM5, having bought a T-Mobile (USA) MDA (HTC Wizard) a week ago, which has WM5. (I have formerly used WM2003 devices, an IPAQ 2210, and an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone.) I use Outlook 2003 on my desktop computer, with the rest of Office 2003.
I have a lot of Notes in Outlook. I rarely write them on a portable device. I write them on the desktop computer, and sync them to the portable device.
The default on the portable device is to store them in main memory. With my having a lot of notes, that takes up a lot of memory. So, I looked at options to move them to the storage card on my MDA.
I found there was a setting for Notes on the MDA, to store new notes on the storage card. I checked that setting. I also tried moving all the notes from the main memory \My Documents folder to \Storage Card\My Documents.
That worked! The Notes app read the Notes after being moved to the Storage Card, just as well as when they were in main memory. I thought I had it solved.
But then---came ActiveSync! (Or ActiveStync!) After doing a sync, when I looked at the Notes app on the MDA, I noticed that there were duplicates of every note. On looking with File Explorer, I saw that AS had ignored that I had the notes on the storage card, and re-synced all of them from the desktop PC to the main memory \My Documents folder. Therefore, on the MDA I now had two copies of every note, in both main memory and storage card. (With the ones in main memory being the newer, updated ones.)
Is there any way to get ActiveSync 4.1 to sync the Notes to the storage card, instead of main memory? They seemed to have some thought of the possibility of keeping Notes on a storage card, by offering the option to save new notes to storage card. (If you write the note on the PPC, which I rarely do.) Shouldn't AS also be able to sync the notes to the storage card?
If there is any way to do this, please let me know. (If not, someone should tell Microsoft that they really need to fix that!)
I have a lot of Notes in Outlook. I rarely write them on a portable device. I write them on the desktop computer, and sync them to the portable device.
The default on the portable device is to store them in main memory. With my having a lot of notes, that takes up a lot of memory. So, I looked at options to move them to the storage card on my MDA.
I found there was a setting for Notes on the MDA, to store new notes on the storage card. I checked that setting. I also tried moving all the notes from the main memory \My Documents folder to \Storage Card\My Documents.
That worked! The Notes app read the Notes after being moved to the Storage Card, just as well as when they were in main memory. I thought I had it solved.
But then---came ActiveSync! (Or ActiveStync!) After doing a sync, when I looked at the Notes app on the MDA, I noticed that there were duplicates of every note. On looking with File Explorer, I saw that AS had ignored that I had the notes on the storage card, and re-synced all of them from the desktop PC to the main memory \My Documents folder. Therefore, on the MDA I now had two copies of every note, in both main memory and storage card. (With the ones in main memory being the newer, updated ones.)
Is there any way to get ActiveSync 4.1 to sync the Notes to the storage card, instead of main memory? They seemed to have some thought of the possibility of keeping Notes on a storage card, by offering the option to save new notes to storage card. (If you write the note on the PPC, which I rarely do.) Shouldn't AS also be able to sync the notes to the storage card?
If there is any way to do this, please let me know. (If not, someone should tell Microsoft that they really need to fix that!)