Forced sync isn't really a sync mode... it's a copy mode!

[Parrotsquawk]

What exactly does Forced sync mode do? What is its real purpose?

Does it examine matching events/contacts and force the selected source to the destination unconditionally yet still copy NEW events/contacts from either source to the other (that would be my understanding) or does it not do copy new events from the destination to the source (as appears to be the case?)

Example:

I have an dinner plans on phone for 7 July 1900.
I have nothing in outlook for that time.
my settings are force outlook > phone (O>P).
my thinking is that, since I have no existing dinner plans for 7 July 1900 on phone, AND force outlook > phone does NOT mean "NEVER COPY FROM PHONE TO OUTLOOK," phone appt should copy to outlook.
However, FORCE O>P never looks at phone?!?! That is not a sync mode: it's just a copy mode.

True Sync Mode would examine the creation/modify time-stamp of the event to determine priority and sync based on that. I don't know if Android has that parameter in calendar events but I imagine that it does so it knows which is newer when comparing the phone to the Google cloud.

Perhaps the developer can look at this issue as it would also resolve duplicates coming from Google Sync (which I have disabled for just that reason.)

[FJ]

You have "Sync both" which syncs in both directions (Androids items have no modified timestamp, but MyPhoneExplorer tries the best as possible).

Force xx overides the sync-direction and if you want then yes its a copy-mode.

[Parrotsquawk]

FJ:

Thanks. That is what I thought. Using the Android data format (which loses Outlook categories etc. as well) seems to be the culprit.

This reinforces the need for a true PIM for Android. OLDorid or something like that...a big moneymaker!

Just my 2 DM, FJ

[FJ]

Please note that MyPhoneExplorer will not touch fields in Outlook which are not supported from phone.

Contact-Groups are mapped to Outlook-Kategories, for calendar its not possible to use the categories