Sync'd Up Follow-up

This is a follow-up on a recent post regarding the blending of the MAC, PC, and Pocket PC using Missing Sync as the blender.
Basically, this was done to allow me to keep all three platforms in sync with all my "important" data.

So far, it had been working pretty well. Couple glitches here and there with Missing Sync, but nothing I couldn't overcome or workaround. The new 2.0.2 beta release also helped.

Anyway, one problem I did run into was the partnership between my Pocket PC and my WindowsXP system got hosed. Now if this ever happened to you, you know what a pain it can be to change the name on the pocket pc, re-sync everything, and then re-authorize any software that was tied to the name of the PocketPC, which some of them are surprisingly.

I wish I had read the linked article ahead of time. It's a bit dated but still pretty much on the money regarding the registry entries used in managing the partnership. Trust me, it's better to have this stuff backed up then trying to recreate it by hand. Obviously, registry editing is not for the faint of heart. But exporting and importing valid data removes some of the risks.

Although there are many sights that say you can not re-establish a partnership between a PPC and host PC, that is not the case. I was able to do this by finding the correct PId value in the referenced partnership registry entries and re-enter that along with the host computer name on my PPC. I missed one step somewhere, because when I sync'd it saw all the contact entries as new. I think I should have just said to override with the host pc values.

Long story short, when you create an ActiveSync partnership between two devices backup the registry entries on both the Host PC and the PocketPC. If the partnership ever gets corrupted or lost due to battery failure, you can recreate it in short order.