When I got my Treo [treotoiphone, treoinhawaii, treoweekone, treofirstimpressions], I was happy to see that Palm included the ability to sync with Microsoft Outlook. With older Palm devices, I always needed to use IntelliSync or Chapura's PocketMirror. PocketMirror is very reliable, but it always annoyed me the way it handled Outlook security dialogs.
I sync my Treo with 2 different computers, my home and my work. Alas, Palm's Outlook Conduit does a terrible job in this case. Almost every single appointment in the Calendar would get duplicated on each HotSync. And even if I didn't touch an appointment on either computer, I would still get a HotSync warning that the item was modified on one or more computers, and would be duplicated. In addition, I couldn't mark items as private because they would never get HotSync'd. I like to have my personal appointments marked as private so the details will remain hidden on my work calendar. Even worse, some items would randomly not sync at all, for no apparent reason.
Yes, I have the "enable sync on multiple PCs" box checked. Having it unchecked causes HotSync to pop an annoying warning dialog every time I sync.
So I downloaded PocketMirror XT, and after some installation hassles, I'm back in business. PocketMirror is highly configurable, and handles syncing with multiple machines flawlessly. It still hacks away at the Outlook security dialog, but what a relief to not have to deal with sync problems every day.
Note on PocketMirror installation: PM uses the ancient and horrible InstallShield system for installation. On one computer, the app would not install until I deleted all of my temp directories and rebooted the computer. On another computer, PM wouldn't install at all unless I was running in Safe Mode. Ridiculous! How many customers is Chapura losing by using such an awful installer?
