Microsoft's ActiveSync Stinks

[SteveLord]

(rant)

This is a terrible program to use for syncing. The options are far and few and I couldnt get this piece of crap to STOP automatically syncing every 5 secs. This caused all my phone contacts to be removed, minus a few. And they arent in Outlook either as those were also removed. They are all lost and I have no way to recover them.

Thanks Microsoft for screwing me out of my personal, military and business contacts and seriously messing up my life and work.

Oh, and all my calender entries and appointments are gone as well.

I know the first thing you'll say is "oh you should have backed it up somewhere" Thats precisely what I was trying to do, since I was setting ActiveSync to have my device overwrite what's in Outlook.

[Trombe]

Not any better since the days of the Cassiopeia eh?
That program is the reason I don't buy Microsoft Mobile anything.

[d94]

heh, iv had that problem before myself... but after re-installing it, it went away

freakin drove me nuts

[||Console||]

cant you restore to a day before you turned it on ?

[TankGuys]

I hated this software too. It would randomly stop seeing my mobile - and I'd have to completely uninstal/reinstall to fix it. This happened quite a few times with a few different mobile units :(

[orion25]

To back up all your contacts and email from Outlook search Microsoft.com for a program called pfbackup. It will back up all your personal folders on a schedule to any drive/folder you want. HERE is the link....... (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en)