John,
I sync my calendar and names with Outlook 2000 twice daily, and I
expect that my method should work with Outlook 2002; it relies upon a
purchased copy of PumaTech's Intellisync for Notebooks, and I'm sure a
quick call to PumaTech would confirm whether their commercial offering
still works with 2002.
I detailed the method I use in an email from the archive at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=newtontalk&m=100478876920383&w=2
For your convenience, here's what I said....
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.
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