Comments on: Review – SyncMate Expert Edition

By: B Williams

B Williams — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:03:10 +0000

DO NOT SPEND ONE CENT ON MISSING SYNC BY MARKSPACE – IT IS FULL OF BUGS, VERY INCONSISTENT, AND THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE RATES A BI OLD CAPITOL F.

THEY HAVE AGREED THAT NOTHING WORKS FOR ME AND WILL REFUND MY MONEY. THAT’S THE ONLY GOOD THING THEY HAVE DONE.

By: JakeRich

JakeRich — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:52:34 +0000

UPDATE: The article has a link to the home site of Eltima, which is a German firm selling many products, one of which is SyncMate. In fact, there is another website for the specific SyncMate produt. Here is the link:

http://www.sync-mac.com/

That site is more specifically for SyncMate and has is tailored for support.

Enjoy!

By: JakeRich

JakeRich — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:41:23 +0000

OK, I do have both. I, too, have more problems with Missing Sync. It seems to be touchy about syncing if the PDA has been synced with any other computer. I do that all the time, syncing from my Windows laptop to the PDA to the Mac and back, so I get the sync errors frequently. I haven’t seen them with SyncMate. SyncMate noted that another sync package was installed, as I said, and offered to disable it temporarily. Missing Sync detected that SyncMate was installed and required that SyncMate be completely uninstalled before it would connect. SyncMate mounts the PDA to one point, with any storage cards under that directory. Missing Sync detects any storage cards and mounts them separately. Missing Sync doesn’t seem to have any equivalent to the Device Info screen of SyncMate. Missing Sync has a “Backup Documents” function that SyncMate doesn’t. SyncMate lets you SEND SMS messages from the Mac, which Missing Sync doesn’t seem to do. Missing Sync sees multiple categories on the iCal, which SyncMate doesn’t do, although it will sync them independently.

Other that those, they seem to be very similar. Both install cab files, both sync time, both let you see call logs, SMS messages, etc.

By: doogald

doogald — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:43:16 +0000

I’ve had loads of problems lately with Missing Sync, so I’m glad to see that there may be something else that works. (Though I suspect the problem is with Apple Sync Services not supporting all features of both platforms well.)

By: Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:41:43 +0000

Did you try ‘The Missing Sync’? It has been around *forever* and I swear by it … it would be interesting to see a compare & contrast of the two.