Re: Thoroughly confused

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BillinDetroit wrote:

After that I will install Office Pro + Accounting TRIAL packages. If they work, it's a sale. If not ... I'm off to the trash bin to retrieve the box the Dash came in and on-line looking for a Zaurus. I've already got the install CD's for Linux.

If anyone has a better answer, now would be a good time to speak up.

Bill


Okay ... did that. No dice. The full package is working ... accounting .... Business Contacts and so on.

ActiveSync will install and remove 3rd party programs from the PDA ... so I know it can communicate with the PDA.

Outlook seems to have no problems manipulating the data file, adding, editing and deleting from it.

Both the PDA and Outlook can, independently, retrieve email from Google. I am running a three-machine / two user network ... there is absolutely no justification for MS Exchange.

I was able to uninstall Windows Mobile 6 and replace it with a (slightly) older revision. I know that this is clutching at straws, but I am trying every avenue I can think of to resolve this problem.

I am not the only person who was able to synchronize one time and one time only. Another poster reported, as I experienced, that synch worked fine until the first time the PDA was unplugged and never again.

That's the only solid clue I have ... the unplugging. That and an "Internal Error: 2356 ActiveSync.cab" when I attempt a repair of ActiveSync from within [Control Panel / Add or Remove] that says 'something' isn't kosher with ActiveSync.

This is a tech support newsgroup. The only response I've gotten so far asserted that I didn't know the difference between a trial version and a full one. That particular respondent was wrong ... but there doesn't seem to be anyone else reading this list with any more chops than that.

(Before you blast me, let me point out that the MSFT knowledge base articles are out of date, referencing older versions of Outlook and ActiveSync. I have tried, over the past 5 days, EVERY suggestion offered in response to a query on "85010014". The self-repair code in Outlook and ActiveSync reports no problems. There isn't a workable solution posted anywhere on the Microsoft web site that considerable searching can uncover.)

I don't understand it.

I have an unaltered Toshiba standard install of Windows XP Home running on a modestly equipped Toshiba Satellite laptop trying to synch a top end PIM to a popular PDA running the current version of Windows Mobile 6. The current version of ActiveSync (by Microsoft) is not on talking terms with the current version of Outlook (by Microsoft). I'm willing to spend a sizeable sum to buy into the whole Office behemoth IF I can get the PDA and Outlook to synchronize, but all I am getting here is silence. This is essential functionality and I am posting on a corporate-sponsored newsgroup.

And all I am getting is silence.

Is this how I will be treated -after- I drop a wad on Office Pro + Accounting?


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