4/11/2023 0 Comments Google blackberry desktop manager![]() After about six weeks (and a requisite amount of red wine), I had a contacts database with about 2300 sanitized contacts, one which I now back up every 30 seconds or so. Sure, I endured some extremely annoying moments, but at least I usually had a copy of contact data somewhere, even if I had to go find it. Over the next couple of months, I dealt with the frustration of having a BlackBerry and a Mac without a good copy of my contacts. But, with the lemons dealt, I chose to make lemonade, using this as an opportunity to upgrade the quality of my contacts database by deleting stale contacts. Something in the move to Missing Sync 2.0 beta was throwing all kinds of sync errors working with the Mark/Space tech support team to resolve this was sadly an exercise in futility. I figured that I could simply roll back my contacts database to where I’d been in the good ol’ 4.2 days, then wipe out my Mac address book (after backing up, of course), then use Missing Sync to push my contacts from my BB to my Mac. But, I had a backup! Since I’d needed to fire up Fusion to use BDM to perform the 4.2 to 4.5 RIM OS update, I had a backup. After the sync collision, I had nearly 6000 contacts, with little trust in the veracity of the data in any of them. I’d started this journey with about 3500 contacts. So, sadly, I threw Missing Sync to the trash. Heck, I’m perfectly capable of doing that on my own. Yes, I pay for updated software regularly.īut, a crucial part of the implied contract between a sync software vendor and a sync software user is that the software won’t f-up my data. The solution from Mark/Space (Missing Sync’s publisher) to try to correct my data? Pay for an upgrade to the next version of Missing Sync–a lousy policy for a piece of sync software. The OS upgrade caused contacts to be deleted from my Mac, but not from my BB vice versa and for individual contacts to duplicated up to a dozen times. I upgraded my BB’s OS from 4.2 to 4.5 for whatever reason, Missing Sync broke like eggs in the colander above Jeremy Clarkson’s head. That worked great until February 2009, when all hell broke loose. So, I bought licenses for both, using Missing Sync to keep my contacts sync’d to my BB via USB, and using Spanning Sync to enjoy two-way cloud-based calendar sync via Google Apps. Poking around in the blogosphere, I learned that A) PocketMac sucked (which I’d figured out on my own) B) Missing Sync for the BlackBerry seemed to be the solution of choice for tethered contacts and calendar sync and C) Spanning Sync was the way to go for cloud-based calendar sync with Google Apps. Luckily, I had backups of my data files, but PocketMac proved to be an enormous waste of time and effort. Starting with my Franklin REX in 1997, I’ve used portable devices running operating systems from Motorola, Nokia, Microsoft, Palm, BlackBerry, and maybe one or two others I’ve forgotten–none of which polluted, duplicated, corrupted, or flat-out deleted data like PocketMac did. Let me remove any doubt from the equation–PocketMac was without question or hyberbole, the unequivocally worst PIM sync solution I’d ever used. So, for contacts and calendar sync, I went with RIM’s offering at the time, PocketMac. Meeting my other two needs was a little more challenging.īlackBerry Desktop Manager for Windows was obviously the slam-dunk choice if I’d been on a PC, but I wasn’t–nor was I willing to run a Windows virtual machine just to run BDM, particularly since moving contacts and calendars between my Mac and Windows would be a process in and of itself, rather than having that synchronization occur as part of my normal workflow on my Mac. For e-mail, I chose Google Apps for Your Domain, as its IMAP capabilities make e-mail work the way e-mail should work. When I launched my consultancy in 2007, I knew that the BlackBerry and the Mac were my two platforms of choice, so I set to work to determine the best approach to keep my e-mail, contacts, and calendar in sync. ![]() ![]() Nope.Ī little background…I’m not exactly a newb when it comes to matters of syncing a BlackBerry and a Mac. In fact, I’ve held off writing this recap I’ve hoped that each of the last 10 days, I’d wake up to some magic button that allowed synchronization to occur accurately. Maybe by the time I’m done writing this review, I’ll have made that determination. I’m not sure if I should give RIM a D, an F, or an incomplete. The good news is that RIM has a chance to fix this in short order, whereas Chicago just goes back to being a great city that isn’t going to get a second chance to host the big games in seven years. I had high hopes for both both ended up poorly. Friday October 2nd will be remembered for two epic failures – Chicago’s elimination in the first round of voting for the 2016 Olympics, and for the release of RIM’s horribly incomplete Desktop Manager for the Mac. ![]()
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