Two outlook 2003 clients on two diff computers

I am sure this has been asked before but I could not search for it properly, so I am posting it here.

I have outlook 2003 on winxp sp2 on my work laptop as well as home laptop. The address book (contacts), calendar, notes and tasks are sort of the same on both, but not quite. There are some contacts that I have updated more recently on the home computer and there are some that I have updated more recently on the work computer.

I installed plaxo toolbar for outlook first on the home computer and sync-ed the data online. Then I installed it on the work computer and it detected some new entries and some conflicts.

The question is - does Plaxo truly sync the contacts, calendar, notes and tasks? Or is it only looking for new entries? Also, what happens if the record has been changed on both the computers? And what happens if the record was newly added in both the computers?

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Hi Life, and welcome to the Plaxo Forum,

Plaxo does actually sync all of the data you've mentioned and gives precedence to the entry which has been most recently updated. Unless you've disabled the option to approve changes from Plaxo, you'll be prompted to choose which fields should win between two changed entries via a dialog box.

If two identical entries are added on separate machines, I must admit that I'm not sure what will happen, but I think (since they'll have different IDs) that Plaxo will treat them as separate entries and you'll end up with duplicates.

How do you re-enable the option to automatically approve changes in Plaxo? I've tried un-installing and re-installing and it still doesn't work.

Hi te5454, and welcome to the Plaxo Forum.

Here's how to re-enable the option to approve or disapprove changes:
1) Click on the "Plaxo" icon on your Plaxo Toolbar and select "Preferences."
2) Select Advanced, and then uncheck the box that says "Accept Changes to Contact Information Automatically."

Thanks for the reply. It is the Calendar items that I'm trying re-enable.

Thanks

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