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Subject:   Sync Palm with Virtual PC for the Mac
Date:   2003-08-27 13:08:01
From:   anonymous2
Response to: Everything but the Clie

Everyone out there seems to be making this WAY too complicated. Syncing your Palm device with PC programs through Virtual PC on the Mac (when using OS 10.2.6) is incredibly simple.


Just set up the sync process as you normally would on the (Virtual) PC. Then, when you are ready to sync, DISABLE HotSync on the Mac... when the PC/Palm sync is complete, ENABLE the HotSync on the Mac - then you can sync data to/from the PC side to the Mac side using the Palm as the conduit, too.


I spent hours (days?) looking for all kinds of tweaks and solutions and it finally occurred to me to try just shutting off the HotSync capability on the Mac and hitting the Sync button on the cradle. The system kept searching for someplace to sync the Palm with and found the (Virtual) PC HotSync.


Works every time.

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  • Sync Palm with Virtual PC for the Mac
    2005-08-13 22:25:12  pachinko [Reply | View]

    Not to insult your intelligence, but what I think you are not understanding is that some people have already taken these steps that you are mentioning and there is something you are not explaining that allows it to work everytime for you and not for others.
    It didn't take me "hours (days?)" to figure out that I needed to DISABLE HotSync on the Mac. In fact, I managed to figure that out from the beginning, I managed to get VPC7 to recognize that the handheld is connected. In fact, it makes a sound every time I HotSync, but it does nothing with it.
    There is something different about your set up and others that allows it to work for you and not for others and that is what we would like to know.
  • Sync Palm with Virtual PC for the Mac
    2005-03-03 12:13:33  arkaycee [Reply | View]

    This fails for me also, now with Virtual PC 7. I have a Palm Tungten E (USB hotsync), and *no* hotsync software on the Mac, just under Windows XP under Virtual PC. When I was at Virtual PC 6.1.1, I got it to work briefly after uninstalling and reinstalling all the Palm software, rebooting in between, etc., and then I started playing with settings in Hotsync. When I changed the Local Serial from COM1 to COM2 (or perhaps the other way around), it worked for about two days, then stopped. I have never had it working again.
  • Sync Palm with Virtual PC for the Mac
    2004-01-15 18:05:06  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    I'm having the same problem with VPC & HotSync.
    The virtual pc seems to recognize the Clie, but
    they can never sync.

    I'm running VPC 6.1 on OSX.2.4; my mac doesn't
    even have HotSync to enable or disable ... the only
    place HotSync appears on my computer is as a
    PC file.

    Any suggestions?

  • Sync Palm with Virtual PC for the Mac
    2003-12-31 09:42:33  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Hi.You make it sound so easy, but I'm still stumped!

    I have disabled hotsyn on the Mac, and have enabled USB in the VPC settings, but I still can't connect. Perhaps I haven't enabled hotsyn on on VPC? There doesn't seem to be a hotsync manager through VPC like there is on the Mac.

    Any ideas??
  • Sync Palm with Virtual PC for the Mac
    2003-10-08 17:42:18  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    hi there,
    I have the same problems, that I can not sync my clié NZ 90 with virtual pc 5.0 (Windows 98 / Outlook 2000). Even when I disable the hotsync manager on my Mac (OS 10.2.6) the sync doesn't work. I can see the Sony handheld in both the system settings / devices and the virtual pc usb settings. But it doesn't work. What do you mean saying "set up the sync process as you normally would on the PC"? Shall I use USB- or Com-Ports and if Com-Ports, which baud-ratings and other settings do I need.
    So please help a little German idiot. I was trying every setting you could imagine, I think.

    Best wishes from Germany

    Bastien