After posting a note saying how I exported the Outlook data from the desktop PC
to a back up PST file then importing that into Outlook on my laptop, people
posted a link to a program called "OutlookSync".
I downloaded it and installed it on both computers. I then ran it on both
computers to initialise the programs.
I then ran "Sync" on the PC. It created a database file which I then copied to
the directory where the sync prog is installed on the laptop. I ran it and
"Sync'ed" it.
It seems to be working.
I presume that when I work on the laptop that if I make changes, say to the
calendar, I run OutlookSync and then copy the data file over to the desktop and
run it there to update that copy of Outlook.
Someone suggested that I could use my HP iPaq as an "intermediary" to sync
between the two computers using it and ActiveSync. I thought about this but I
shied away from the idea. I was too afraid that I'd stuff something up then all
of the data, on the PC, Laptop and the PDA would be corrupted, lost or whatever.
This seems to be the easiest way, so far.
Boy, what I'd give for a Home version of MS Exchange, something that a simple
country folk such as myself could set up and allow all of our computers on the
home LAN to run in synchronised harmony, and to be able to use Motorola's
ActiveSync across the internet into MS Exchange to sync the data on my phone.
While I can do it using the Motorola Phone tools via a USB cable, to be able to
do it wireless when I'm not at home would be brilliant.