Hello all

My wife is slowly converting to the Apple way of working/thinking However, in the interim we need a bit of advice.

Scenario:

1 x PC running Windows Vista, used for work utilising Outlook for mail, contacts etc.
1 x iPhone, synced via iTunes to Outlook for contacts, appointments etc.
1 x newly purchased MBP not synced to anything (yet)
1 x newly purchased MobileMe account

Problem:

What is the best way to sync all three together without 'any chance' of losing information anywhere?

Concerns:

How will the iPhone/MBP play alongside the PC with respect to formats etc?

Hope this explains our 'problem'

Thanks in advance

Taggy

It looks like you can use your MobileMe account to sync your PC (using Outlook), iPhone, and Mac together. I will say I don't have MobileMe, but it's description says it will work for Outlook on the PC.

I am still working out whether everything syncs properly between Outlook and MobileMe. Most of my calendar data on my Palm Centro is in iCal but Missing Sync has failed to work for reliably for more than a month now.

Just for a backup I synched to the Windows version of Palm Desktop. When I realized that didn't work with MobileMe I switched to Outlook. While Outlook seems to have read my Contact changes it doesn't appear to be playing nice with the calendar.

I think the breakdown is somewhere within Outlook since it doesn't seem to be updating calendar changes when I sync. If your Outlook calendars are working perhaps they will sync properly.

Hello Guys

Well, it all 'sort of' works, the iPhone, MBP and PC sync OK.

However, there is a format discrepancy between Outlook and well anything really.

In Outlook, when you assign different diary entries a category (with an associated colour), iCal sees the calendar entries as belonging to just one calendar and therefore, doesn't split them into the different calendars.
Again with Outlook, if you assign contacts to different groups, Address Book sees these. However, if you generate a contact on the iPhone (or MBP) and assign it to a group, Outlook 'sometimes' reflects this. That said it does always appear in the search part of Outlook!

In summary, it does work, things do sync but not in the same formats (why would they).

Before starting I recommend adding one item at a time to the 'cloud' and backing up at every stage, just in case, as we did lose all calendar entries for a brief period

Hope this helps.

Taggy