Outlook ugrade 2000 to 2003: items from 2000 does not sync to PPC

[LarsF]

I have been struggling for days now!..;-)
Bought a new Windows Mobil WM 5.0 and need to sync with Outlook 2003. I
upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003 and all contacts etc worked fine on my PC
and the Palm I used before synced perfect. Uninstalled all Palm related and
installed Activesync 4.1, and thought it would be a breeze....not!
3 days later, IT dept at work hates me and no luck!
I tried on my work pc, that runs XP Pro and 2003 and synced beautifully. But
my home pc with XP Home not!
Have uninstalled and installed Outlook & Activesync several times, tried
Outlook 2002 aswell, started fresh and copied in my old .pst, started fresh
and open datafile and copied individual contacts to my contact folder, but no!

The strange thing is that a few contacts that I entered after the 2000 to
2003 upgrade sync to my MDA...that nice little thing has had soft resets and
a couple of hard resets...
Searched high and low on the net for similar problem but no!

It seems like the old items cannot be synced, but why? And how to "convert"
them to 2003 format...?

I start to regret I moved to Windows Mobile...but needed device with
phone/pda with wi-fi, Palm missed that train with the Treo 650...

Any help appreciated enormously!

Lars in England

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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After furious head scratching, LarsF asked:

| I have been struggling for days now!..;-)
| Bought a new Windows Mobil WM 5.0 and need to sync with Outlook 2003.
| I upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003 and all contacts etc worked fine
| on my PC and the Palm I used before synced perfect. Uninstalled all
| Palm related and installed Activesync 4.1, and thought it would be a
| breeze....not! 3 days later, IT dept at work hates me and no luck!
| I tried on my work pc, that runs XP Pro and 2003 and synced
| beautifully. But my home pc with XP Home not!
| Have uninstalled and installed Outlook & Activesync several times,
| tried Outlook 2002 aswell, started fresh and copied in my old .pst,
| started fresh and open datafile and copied individual contacts to my
| contact folder, but no!
|
| The strange thing is that a few contacts that I entered after the
| 2000 to 2003 upgrade sync to my MDA...that nice little thing has had
| soft resets and a couple of hard resets...
| Searched high and low on the net for similar problem but no!
|
| It seems like the old items cannot be synced, but why? And how to
| "convert" them to 2003 format...?
|
| I start to regret I moved to Windows Mobile...but needed device with
| phone/pda with wi-fi, Palm missed that train with the Treo 650...
|
| Any help appreciated enormously!
|
| Lars in England

 

[LarsF]

Thanks Milly, have just posted there as well. However as Active sync works
fine with items created in 2003 but does not work on items created in earlier
versions and migrated to 2003, I feel that there must be something with the
conversion process in Outlook that's involved.

I have since then started fresh in Outlook 2002, managed to sync all items
in 2002 onto my Mobile device. However when trying to sync these items in th
emobile device onto an Outlook 2003 it fails. Remembering that the pst file
system is changed/differrent from O2003, it seems it is something with the
conversion.....

I'm still in the same spot, wishing Palm had wi-fi...;-)

Cheers

Lars