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Instructions for Installing Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm on the Mac

System Requirements:

OSMac OS 9, Mac OS X to 10.2.6
RAM8 MB (64 MB recommended)
Palm Desktop4 or higher
Palm OS3.3 or higher

Instructions:

  1. Perform a backup of your Oracle Calendar data. To perform a backup of your data, you will need to have Oracle Calendar desktop client currently installed on your machine. If you do not have a desktop client installed, you can obtain it from the Downloads page.
    1. Open your desktop Oracle Calendar program.
    2. Click on File-->Export Data.

      3. File-->Export Data Screenshot

    3. Highlight vCalendar file and click OK.

      4. Export Data Screenshot

    4. Select the date range you wish to export and click OK.

      5. Date Range Screenshot

    5. Give the file a name and location.
  2. Make sure you have HotSync installed and perform a HotSync before installing Oracle Calendar Sync.

Preparing to install over previous versions:

    If you have a Beta version of Oracle Calendar Sync installed, or if you have version 2.1.4 or earlier of Oracle Corporate Sync installed, you must do the following before installing Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm for Macintosh, in order to protect your data.

    1. Remove the Oracle Calendar Sync application (also known as CS Setup) from your Palm organizer.
    2. Purge all items from your Date Book and To Do List. If you do not do this, duplicates of the items will be created when you perform your first HotSync after installing Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm for Macintosh. Note the following when purging data:
      • Ensure that Save archive copy on PC is selected.
      • To Do items that have not been marked as completed must be manually deleted.
      • To delete the majority of, or all, Date Book events, advance the date on your organizer by several years, then do your purge. For example, change your organizer's date to 2015, then purge all events older than 1 week to delete all events from the past up until the year 2015.

New Installations:

  1. Go to the Downloads page and click on 'MacOS Sync (X)' to download the installer zip file. For those running OS 9, click on the 'MacOS Sync (9)' link. Stuffit Expander should unpack the file and create a folder on your desktop.
  2. Open the folder (should be called 'cal_syncpalm_macOS' with the OS and version info included) and double click the OraCalSync icon. This will run the installer.
    NOTE: This may take a few minutes to run. Also, you may see some error messages generated; you can ignore them.
  3. Copy Oracle Calendar Sync.prc from

    /Applications/Palm/Add-on/
    to
    /Users/{user}/Documents/Palm/Users/{user}/Files to Install/

    where {user} is the name of the relevant Mac user.
  4. Place your Palm in its cradle and perform a HotSync. NOTE: You may again see some error messages; you can ignore them.
  5. Open your HotSync Manager from your HotSync folder. (If the HotSync Manager had already been open, you will need to close and reopen it.)
  6. Go to the HotSync menu and choose Conduit Settings. From here you can customize how you want Oracle Calendar Sync to handle Events, Tasks and Addresses.

    7. Sync Settings Screenshot

  7. Open Oracle Calendar Sync on your Palm and Enter your Calendar User Name, Password, Server and Node. The NCSU server is 'calendar.ncsu.edu'. If you are not in a college-specific node, then you should use 'ncsu' node.
  8. Oracle Calendar is now installed but no information has been synchronized yet. Perform another HotSync to sync the data.

last edited on 6/20/04 by nngenzel