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I bought a one-year license to Spanning Sync. Needless to say, I won’t be renewing it.

Find out more about Spanning Sync at my site: http://www.sync-my-c[...]ng-sync.html

Yes I have 10.5.3.

I’m with you. I followed you on to GooSync and had so much grief, I could not rely on it. I’m back to just subscribing and I never ever think about it.

I have now switched to the iphone from the blackberry and am now once again looking for a proper sync solution OTA and am once again stuck but in reviewing the Goosync site, I see lots of ongoing issues, bugs, and “it will be working really soon now” comments. Sorry GooSync team. I’m with Alex. You’re working on a difficult problem but if you can’t fix it and make it reliable, then we can’t stay there. My job as a client is to buy your product and then happily forget about it, not have to manage it update it, tweak it, reconfigure it, just to keep going.

Best of luck though.

Thanks for the post Alex.

Troy

A sweet deal, in my opinion.

We’ve just released Spanning Sync v1.2 Beta, which includes our solution for alarms/reminders: when you sync an event from Google Calendar to iCal, that event inherits your default alarm settings, so it’s just as if you had created it in iCal manually. Similarly, when you sync an event from iCal to Google Calendar, it inherits your default reminders settings on Google Calendar.

I hope you’ll try it out. You can download the beta at spanningsync.com/beta-download. If you need your trial period extended, just send an email to beta@spanningsync.com, and be sure to include your Google account name.

Cheers,
Charlie

I just completed my evaluation and will also put in my comment that lack of synchronization of reminders is one of the missing links for me.

My 2 cents on the matter is imagine “most” people have a “primary” reminder. Speaking for myself, I use only 1 reminder for 90% of my events. for the remaining 10%, I have started to use 2 due in part to the iPhone’s “create event” interface. I cannot see myself using 3 reminders and in general, I imagine those who use 3 reminders on Google Calendar are willing to workaround the issue short-term to get alarms synced.

I am currently looking at alternative solutions right now and certainly intend to stay abreast of Spanning Sync developments!

Thanks for the response. There are issues with Leopard iCal that prevent it from being a reliable sync client (Google for “stuck iCal problem”), which we’re optimistic will be fixed in 10.5.2. But those are the only known issues that would prevent Spanning Sync from being reliable. The other things you mentioned are design issues, which I’d love to get your input on. I’ll contact you via email.

Thanks again,
Charlie

I did have opportunity to report issues once or twice, but on balance I found that there were too many issues and I didn’t have the time or energy to pursue getting them reported and fixed.

Syncing alarms is a dead easy problem to throw a bandaid on – just have a “iCal alarm setting for events created in Google Calendar” option in your prefs.

I’m generally pretty responsive with the apps that I beta test, but I didn’t sign up to beta test here and I feel like there are too many issues right now for me to trust the product in its current state.

End of the day, I need it to sync. When it doesn’t do that reliably I can’t use it.

I look forward to future releases and will check back again in a few months – or if I have some time to properly report the issues I was running in to.