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I have the same issue w/Avantgo, & I've determined it's just a few of my
channels that are apparently updated continuously (news channels) that are causing it--that, and AVGo's decision to set their software to check for updates every time any other sync'd item updates. Unfortunately, AvantGo hasn't bothered to provide any control over sync sched. for their product, and ultimately this is a deficit of their product and our efforts would probably be best directed towards them on this issue (I've found their PDA version strangely lacking compared to the product on other platforms--no full-screen mode, minimal font-size control, no zoom...but that's another issue...). I've dealt with this two ways: 1) I update AvantGo once a day, when I first sync PPC & PC in the morning. Then I click Options and clear the check box next to AvantGo so it's not included in any more sync's that day. Unfortunately there's no way to accomplish this other than manually, and ea. morning I have to check the AvantGo box, sync once & then clear it for the rest of the day. 2) I've moved most of the subscriptions that I've determined to be constant updaters over to MobiPocket's eNews service, which works pretty much just like AvantGo, usually looks better (layout-wise) and has a full-screen mode, unlike AvantGo (PPC)--and most importantly, has controls that enable you to restrict updates to once every however-many-hours you choose. I have mine set to every twelve hours, so I get the same result as I do manually w/AvantGo (one or two updates a day), but automatically. MobiPocket MobiReader is free, offers most of the same channels as AvantGo (news, @ least) and you can manually add any site not on their lists. And unlike AvantGo, the only size restriction is how much free space you have available on your device (& how long you're willing to wait for an update, of course). Like AvantGo channels, Favorites only update (at least on my system) when something changes. If you tend to add lots of Favorites as bookmarks while you surf, and if you save them to Mobile Favorites, ActiveSync will update your device every time you add or delete (or move) one of those favorites. I don't add & delete fav's a lot on my PPC, so I do pretty much the same as with AvantGo: I keep them unchecked and turn them on & back off manually only when I've added links on the PPC that I want on the desktop or vice-versa. As an aside, I wonder why this continues to be an issue after all these "improved" releases of ActiveSync. Favorites seem to be uniquely badly handled, far less efficiently for some reason. Add an Outlook entry or a new Word file and they're added individually, one at a time, in a second flat; but for some reason every addtition to Favorites seems to require going through every last one of them every time. If MS would put a little more effort into finding a way to avoid that behavior we wouldn't be wasting our time talking about what a waste of time that is, lol. I don't mind a 2-second pause to add a new meeting or update a spreadsheet, but a full minute-long sync of every last Favorite every time you change just one of them becomes pretty irritating pretty fast! I don't do any offline Favorites, but if you do, you can set the update interval for ea. Favorite individually, in the Favorites' control itself (right-click the Favorite...). Just as with AVGo, determine which Favorites are getting updated too often and set those Favorites' update-interval to a longer period. I know these aren't the simple, automatic set-it-&-forget-it answers you were probably looking for, but I don't see many alternatives until AvantGo bothers to take a few minutes to add some Settings to their product's ActiveSync Options so we can control update times, or MS writes a better sync routine for bookmarks. If anyone else has other ideas I'd like to hear them too.  Actually there IS one way to avoid changing settings every day for individual items, and it may be what you were asking for in the first place (NOW I think of this  ; problem is, it's a global solution, and might notbe acceptable if you constantly update other stuff that you want updated immediately on the PPC. You can click Options, choose the Schedule tab & change the option for Desktop Schedule, where it says, "When connected to my PC sync..." from the usual Continuously setting to Manually or, as you asked about, On Connection. With the latter AS will only sync everything once when you first place your device in the cradle (or connect wirelessly), and not again until you've removed/disconnected & reconnect the device (or start a sync manually). Maybe changing that setting and then manually initiating a sync before you remove your device from the cradle will give you the right balance between auto- & manual sync.... __________________________________________________ _______ "Connie Hall" <> wrote in message news:OUVeQ4%... Activesync continuously syncs my Mobile favorites and my Avantgo Channels while connected to my PDA. I have Activesync set to only sync on connection (under options, schedule). Pages from my favorites also automatically delete after I view the downloaded site. I would like Activesync to sync to my Favorites and Avantgo Channels only when first connected and for the Favorites pages to remain until the next sync. Any ideas? I have Activesync 3.7.1 (build 4034) installed on a Dell Axim(416) with Windows Mobile 2003 SE version 4.21.1088(Build 14260.2.0.5) |
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