GooSync borked my calendar
I installed GooSync last week to give it a test ride. If you haven’t heard of GooSync yet, it purports to be the Holy Grail that will synchronize your Outlook Calendar (boo! hiss!) with your Google Calendar (yay! hurrah!). This is especially important for those of us with Pocket PC / Windows Mobile devices who want to be able to swan around at meetings and enter appointments into our diaries but be able to synch them with the online version.
I’ve been doing this successfully for a couple of months using Funambol but it’s a desktop app and GooSync is a Pocket PC app which makes a lot more sense.
ANYWAY… the bottom line is that when I tested GooSync it borked my calendar. After three synchs, I ended up with three different versions of most of my appointments in both the Outlook and the Google calendars and some were even at different times to the original! I was able to go through Outlook and delete most of the erroneous entries but you can’t do that as easily with GCal, so I had to delete the whole frikkin calendar and start again (fortunately that’s a pretty painless process).
Anyone else having trouble with GooSync or know the reason for my troubles?
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Not only that mate it looks like you broke the code on your blog as well…
what’s wrong with the blog?
oh yeah I see what you mean. L0L.
Nice to see I am not the only one that does it…
Cam…I had the exact same experience. I was looking to use Google Calendar and have GooSync make sure that everything ended up on my mobile phone (after going through Outlook). It worked great initially. However, after about 2-3 weeks, it destroyed both of my calendar. I want ActiveSync for Google Calendar. Wait. Scratch that. I want Google Calendar to sync with my mobile.
Nice to see you de-borked the blog.
Yeah this whole calendar “holy grail” thing is really starting to become an issue. It seems nothing truly makes it a reality for everyone, breaks other shit and is never considered by the developers of the actual applications, despite the fact that users are screaming out for it!
I think that sites (Read GCal) need to start supporting mobile devices and cross apps by default as opposed to forcing you to use the site or a 3rd party app that might work.
Found a nice little app as a solution to adding entries to gcal offline but it appears to suit your syncing needs Cam – http://www.calgoo.com
Just read the post in full and calgoo isn’t suited to pda’s.
I’m wanting to get an “OQO 02” (http://www.tegatech.com.au/products/umpc/oqo_02_best.htm) which calgoo would be great for. Does anyone have an opinion on these things? Is it overkill or is this the way of the future?
For $3000!? Man, what are you planning on doing with it that you couldn’t do with a PDA?
Well firstly I can salary sacrifice it to well under $2000. Secondly i’m flying every week from sydney to FNQ via twonsville and brisbane and i’m sick of lugging my acer around.
Thirdly I could stop carrying my ipod and filofax everywhere.
Fourthly, Ortega said something about a happy ending hardware plugin due mid-year.
hehe okay yeah I’d pay $3000 for the happy ending plug-in. 🙂
Damn I cant wait for fembots.
Cherry 2000 was made in 1987 and we’re still years from its fruition. What’s going on?
I defy you though to find a geek alive who wouldn’t want an OQO. Have you seen the docking station with DVD drive? Check out this engadget video on youtube.