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Posted by Sven on December 12, 2006, 12:18 pm
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I probably have bad news for you. Syncing with a pre-WM5 device using AS4.x
really uses legacy code, i.e AS 3.8, and I really don't expect MS to make
any changes to it. I can guarantee that issue no longer exists when syncing
a WM5 device with AS4.x. That's because the feature to filter sync by
category is gone altogether. It still transfers the category, you just
can't use it to filter what does and doesn't sync. There is nothing you can
use BTW, it's all or nothing now.
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Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
> THIS IS A REALLY NASTY BUG WHERE ACTIVESYNC 4.2 DELETES CRITICAL DATA
> FROM THE IPAQ. It is caused by a common use case (see below).
>
> I am syncing my Pocket PC with my home and work computers. I DO NOT
> want to copy my personal contacts onto my work PC.
>
> =====================
> Bug reproduction steps
> =====================
> 1. Reinstall ActiveSync 4.2
>
> 2. Create "Sync at work" category in the master category list, and
> create a test Contact and add the "Sync at work" category to it.
>
> 3. Synchronise all contacts. (This must be performed, before being able
> to use the "Synchronize only those contacts in the following selected
> categories" option.)
>
> 4. Configure the "Synchronize only those contacts in the following
> selected categories" option to only sync the category "Sync at work".
>
> 5. Rerun the synchronise process with Ipaq.
>
> 6. Delete personal contacts from my work pc Outlook (i.e. those NOT in
> the "Sync at work" category).
>
> 7. Rerun the synchronise process with Ipaq.
>
> =====================
> Expected results
> =====================
> At step 7. ActiveSync should NOT delete the contacts on the ipaq that
> were deleted in step 6 (because they are not in the "Sync at work"
> category).
>
> =====================
> Actual results
> =====================
> At step 7. ActiveSync ERRONEOUSLY DELETES the contacts on the ipaq that
> are not in the "Sync at work" category.
>
> And another thing, I would love to have reported this bug via
> Microsoft's standard bug reporting protocal, but it doesn't exist - see
> http://weblog.timaltman.com/node/834
>
> Microsoft are currently beta testing ActiveSync 4.5, and I really hope
> they will fix this bug for the RTM version. I just hope the ActiveSync
> development team read the posts in this newsgroup!
>
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