For what it's worth, I've been using gsyncit for several months to sync my Outlook calendar and other info. and am relatively happy with it. As a former Palm user, I wanted to be sure all the essential Outlook info (notes, contacts, etc) would show up properly on my Droid. Once I satisfied myself, I bought the Droid. (The point is that my Palm was my "brain prosthesis" and I'd be in deep trouble without it.)
Calendar is synching beautifully; I have set up filters to not sync certain items from Outlook to the Google Calendar, since the screen real estate is smaller and harder to use. It is crazy wonderful to be able to change my office outlook calendar from any computer where I can access Google Calendar, or from my Droid. I dearly miss many features of the Palm calendar, Datebk5, such as alarms that repeat every 5 minutes until I notice them, and the ability to make an event float from day to day until it's done. But I'm sure I'll adapt.
Contacts work well once I figured out some quirks. I'm just working on Notes, which aren't ideal but work out OK once I set each Notes category to sync to a unique folder in Google Documents.
For Tasks, I'm starting with Astrid on the Droid and RememberTheMilk.com on the PC. I'm not a heavy user of Tasks, so this is fine for me.
If you're comfortable with some configuration dialogs, gsyncit might be worth a try. I used the demo version to test its capabilities (with some limitations and some nagging) to be sure you're OK with its methodology. It's updated almost weekly; in my experience, the problems I had early were addresses rapidly. I have one copy, which runs on my office computer. I use the Google apps for the rest of my world. It's not flawless, but then again, neither is the Droid.
[I'm not associated with gsyncit in any way, except as a customer.]
An update on gsyncit: This morning nearly all of my Outlook appointments were gone from my calendar, and I can only assume it was gsyncit that did the deed. (Things like this have happened before with gsyncit, but not in a while.)
Although I have written everything back in from Google Calendars (with some loss of details), I'm stopping using gsyncit for the moment. I'm forced back to the default Google sync, and hunting for something better. Also, contact sync is gone, since Google sync doesn't do that.
read your post and tried to reply but not able to so excuse the private message.
I'm having the same exact problem with my wife's calendar sync. It changes the dates of recurring (mostly annual) events by 1 or 2 days and has really messed things up.
Also, it has a nasty habit of merging 2 contact records together that happen to have the same first or last name.
Are you having the "contact merge" issue?
You sticking with Companionlink for now? I'd really like to find something more stable. I'd pay $100 for something that worked perfectly and seamlessly.
Thanks.
The merging is an Adroid feature that really should have an "off" option in contacts setup...unfortunately you have to find the merged contact yourself and use the option while in each contact to un-merge them...
An example of a SW designer trying to help too much.
Any one else have the following problem with CompanionLink: For reoccurring all-day evnets such as birthdays and holidays (reoccur once per year on a certain date), in Outlook, the date is correct; in Gmail Calendar, the date is off by one day. Then when I re-sync, it changes my Outlook calendar to the new incorrect date. (i.e., New Year's Day falling on Dec 31.)
I've checked and have time zone set the same in both Outlook and Gmail so not sure what else could cause it.
(Outlook actually treats an all day appointment as from 12:00-12:00 so if you change time zones on Outlook, it changes it to span 2 days from 11 pm - 11 pm or 1 am to 1 am, etc. so time zone problem was my first thought.)
Thanks DatacomGuy! Looking forward to more updates.
Hi firefight16, I guess I'm missing something. I don't know what you mean by "paying a monthly fee to sync wireless?". Can you explain? Thanks!
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