I have just got an X50. I have installed ActiveSync on my home machine (W98SE) but it will not install Outlook2002 for no apparent reason.

I would like to be able to back up the various outlook parts - calendar, contacts etc - to the desktop machine, and also be able to edit them on that (one reason is to pre-populate my contacts file) using the keyboard etc.

So - can anyone recommend either a product that will allow me to do this - or some other product for the X50 that replaces pocket outlook (or whatever it's called) that will allow me the desired functionality?

Many thanks

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Can you give us a little more to work with? what errors were you getting when you tried to install the outlook2002 software?

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Thanks for your prompt reply.
As far as I recall (it was a couple of days ago!), it gave _no_ error messages at all. The only oddity was one dialogue screen where it said what it was going to install and there was a big red cross next to Outlook. Prior to this it did a lot of other work - installing, I think, a newer version of the installer- and a lot of stuff presumably associated with Office, like fonts (?)

I _think_ it may be that the C: drive is a tad full - it left me with only 103Mb free.

The problem has resolved.

I revisited the problem on Friday evening.
Despite there being no evidence of Outlook on my hard drive, it did appear in Control Panel | Add remove programs - so I removed it.
I then considered removing Active Sync, but I could not find any way to do so..

I next defragmented the hard disk (always a good idea)
After that I re-installed Outlook, this time selecting custom install - and there in the dialogue it showed that it did not intend to install Outlook (!) I explicitly set it to run from the hard drive, and after continuing, the Outlook icon appeared on my desktop - and yes, Outlook finally was installed.

Not only that, I can sync the Axim to the desktop machine - Great!

This is much more like it!

(trouble is, I am now finding Jawbreaker a bit addictive...)

TTFN

There's a jaw breaker thread where everyone posts their high scores. Nice job reporting back the fix to your prob for future users. Welcome to this awesome community!
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