I struggled with trying to sync my Newton to Outlook 2000 for a long time.
Lookout...Outlink...neither of them were satisfactory.
Then I went hunting through the archives and found a message (can't remember
who posted it) of an alternative...
I purchased a copy of PumaTech's "IntelliSync for Notebooks":
http://www.pumatech.com/Intellisync_Notebooks.html
...and downloaded Lotus Organizer 2.1 from:
http://www.unna.org/unna/windows/lotus_organizer_212.zip
The Intellisync for Notebooks allows you to sync between PC PIM apps; in
this case, sync between Outlook 2000 and Lotus Organizer 2.1.
Then, after running a sync between Outlook and Organizer, I run the standard
Newton NCU synchronization. Works like a charm. This two-step sync process
isn't nearly as odd in practice as the description may leave you to believe.
I do the sync routine every day. The only hiccup is that every now and then
when I am syncing between Intellisync for Notebooks and Lotus, Lotus
complains about a corrupt .ORG file. Given that the Organizer file is just
acting as an intermediary there is no risk in just blowing away the content
of the ORGFILES directory that contains the Organizer OR2 file and a couple
of other like-named files with different extensions. After blowing away the
files I just run Intellisync again and tell it to ReSync from scratch rather
than doing an incremental sync. This is a minor annoyance that only takes a
few extra minutes every now and then. Well worth it for the payback of a
synchronization process that works.
BTW, the first time you set things up you have to initialize a Lotus
Organizer .OR2 file before the first sync by running Organizer and doing a
Save of the blank Organizer to a file. Then you configure Intellisync to
sync into that blank Organizer OR2 file.
Gavin.
-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin
Sent: November 2, 2001 12:03 PM
To: NewtonTalk
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Recommendations regarding MP2000 <> Windows PIM
sync?
on 11/2/01 5:18 AM, Peter K. Sanner at psanner_at_mac.com wrote:
> i am curious what you guys out there would recommend to use to do a sync
> with outlook 2000 (? any better idea) and my MP2000. Does this work via
> Ethernet too?
I'm surprised that none of our (supposedly) numerous Windoz user hasn't
replied to your message yet. There are, I think, a couple of solutions for
Outlook. I'm not sure for Outlook 2000, but I think that products like
LookOut and another one were able to synchronize Outlook on the PC with a
Newton.
Now, probably somebody in the knowing will come up with more information...
-Laurent.
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