Palm Sync Thunderbird 0.5

[Nate1861]

Imagine bashing your head against the wall for three solid hours. That's the pain I went through trying to get Palm Sync to work for the newest release. My palm sync works absolutely fine for Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4a (20031119). The steps I went through to install it for that version were to install Thunderbird, then go into the extension menu, install new extension, and chose the palm sync xpi file. It says installation is complete, although it does not work, I have to go into the Thunderbird directory and run the PalmSyncInstall.exe and then it works fine. I repeated this process with the new Thunderbird and it does not work. I Googled for every single document I could find with instructions on how to install Palm Sync and none of them work for 0.5 that I can figure out. I tried the newest XPI they released, and the older one I was using with the 0.4a Thunderbird that currently works for me. Does anyone have this problem? And if not, can you detail how you installed yours.

Edit...
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... /palmsync/
I have tried every single Palm Sync extension from a fresh install of Thunderbird 0.5 and not a single one of them works no matter what I do, so I can only assume the fuctionality is broken in 0.5?

[DIGITALgimpus]

AFAIK, yes it is broken. I've been looking into it a bit myself.

I don't know of any remedy for this as of yet. I can confirm this is a known issue though.

[WildCelt]

Thanks for the info!

[bienvenu]

The first xpi that came out with .5 was broken - I gave Scott a new one that should fix the problem yesterday around 5:30PM and Scott pushed it up later. The problem with that .xpi was that we would try to sync but think there were no directories to sync. The problem Robert has is that Hot Sync would never even invoke the Moz palm sync conduit. The way to tell the difference is to create a conduit log by setting a DOS environment variable, set MOZ_CONDUIT_LOG=c:\conduit.log, and look at the log. If it has data in it, but doesn't do a sync, then it should be fixed by the latest drop. If there's no log or a zero byte file, then it's the same problem that Robert has, and that seems to have to do with Hot Sync not even trying to run our conduit.

[WildCelt]

Excellent. I'm re-downloading now...

Edit: Nope, it is still giving me the same error message

[Nate1861]

I downloaded the updated version and everything works beautifully now, thanks a lot. I installed as follows...
1. Download the XPI to the desktop.
2. Run Thunderbird, go to options, then install the extension from the desktop.
3. You WILL receive an error message saying the install could not be completed, this is normal.
4. Go to your Thunderbird directory and double click PalmSyncInstall.exe which should install it properly.
5. Close Thunderbird and do a hotsync, hopefully it works for you as well.

[WildCelt]

Yeah, that did work (for the install at least).

It didn't sync my address book, however. Oh well. For some reason I thought (hoped) the extension would allow one to sync email, and not only addresses.

[DIGITALgimpus]

Try doing the following:

Download the palmsync xpi
Install Palm Sync

THEN

open it with winzip
copy the file palmsync.dll to the root Thunderbird directory (where thunderbird.exe is located)

See if that helps you.

Really strange, but it worked for me.

[WildCelt]

Thanks. I'll try that.

[DIGITALgimpus]

Also try running regxpcom.exe found in the Thunderbird folder.

[MrBalky]

First off, I want to thank David Bienvenu very much for all his hard work on this. It's an incredibly useful feature for me.

I followed the instructions from Nate1861 above, and was able to get hotsync to do something.

But I still wound up with an extended experience with this. It *seems* that spaces in the address book names mess things up.

For many years I have had an address book/category called Personal. My tbird "personal address book" is empty, but I have many contacts in "personal".

Well the personal contacts were not being copied to the PDA. It took several tries to notice that I was getting a "Personal" category on the PDA, rather than "Personal Address Book".

Renaming to "MyPersonal" did the trick.

Happily synchronizing now. Thanks again.

[Lost User 22584]

I have tried everything in this thread and have not been successful in getting the palm address book conduit syncing with Tbird's address book.

In the end, Tbird quits working. I get an error message upon each execution that says that Tbird is completing an installation. I then must uninstall all of the Tbird files in the program directory and the Application Data directory and then reinstall Tbird from scratch in order to get it going again.


H E L P ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Thanks,

Gordon

[DIGITALgimpus]

I havent' had much success either. There are some patches being put in, and there should be a new release of palmsync when things look better.

[user999991]

OK. How do I *uninstall* this feature? I can't get it to sync w/ the TBird address book, and now changes to the Palm Desktop address book are no longer reflected on the Palm.

I can't figure out how to change my HotSync settings back to reflect the "Address Book" not "Mozilla Address Book"

What I'd really like by the way is synchronization between Palm Desktop, TBird, and the handheld. I have to use the Desktop for scheduling, notes, etc. But I collect a lot of infomration and of course email from TBird.

[DIGITALgimpus]

go into the DOS prompt "Run..."

You need to run the PalmSyncInstall.exe with a /u parameter:

C:\Path\to\Thunderbird\PalmSyncInstall.exe /u

That will prompt you to uninstall, follow prompts accordingly.


If I were all of you, I'd just wait for the next xpi, hopefully soon. That's what I'm doing.


I spent quite some time with David Bienvenu trying to get it working. Believe me. Eventually did, to find more bugs. He's worked on quite a bit. Hopefully soon he'll be satisfied enough to give another xpi.