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OmniOutliner3, Omnishadow and Shadow on palm - help please
joej | Feb 14 2007
I am trying to get Omnioutliner to export my outlines to ShadowPlan on my palm. I installed Omnishadow and all went well. I am using Omnioutliner3 Pro (demo) since the non-Pro version is what came on my Mac and I read the Pro version is needed. When I have an OO outline open in front of me, I go to the applescript menu, select the "Shadow-Plan Save" option to try to export the outline and nothing happens except for a tone sounds. I look and there is no file in the "Files to Install" directory of the Palm user directory. In fact, I cannot find a file of the name of the OO file anywhere except for the original. No pdb, xml, or other file is exported anywhere. I emailed the author of Omnishadow but have had no reply to date (and he is clear that the scripts are not necessarily supported). I verified the Omnishadow prefs 3x. Questions: -Does OO3 Pro need to be registered for this to work? Any ideas? Thanks very much... 3 Comments
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 Sorry to see you haven't...Submitted by yucca on February 17, 2007 - 5:37pm.
Sorry to see you haven't gotten a useful reply. I can't help you with your exact requirements, but I do have question. Have you considered going the OO3 (with KGTD) <-> iCal <-> Palm'sTasks app sync route? It works for me, but I did have to do some troubleshooting a few years ago to get the sync between iCal and Palm Tasks to work. Of course, I don't actually want to do planning on my Palm . . . so this might not be much of an option for you. Hope this at least gives you an option if you don't get anything concrete re: Omnishadow and ShadowPlan. Good luck, and do let us know how things go! » POSTED IN:
Error converting Shadow XMl to pdbSubmitted by writerati on March 25, 2007 - 5:11pm.
Hi JoeJ-- joej;8144 wrote:
In my experience, that's exactly what you have to do. I haven't used OmniShadow in a while, but I do remember that the "Shadow Plan Save" option didn't work for me. I saved as Shadow XML, opened in Shadow Desktop, and it worked fine. The error (I think) has to do with a bug when Shadow Desktop converts an XML file to a .pdb. In my command-line tests, if I converted a file using
and then hotsynced the pdb file, I got an error in HotSync Manager. However, if I opened the same XML file in Shadow Desktop and manually saved as a .pdb, it worked fine. I was able to sync the file without issues. OmniShadow tries to run the same -xlate converstion, so that *might* be where the problem lies. Try saving as XML and then converting it manually, and see if that works. » POSTED IN:
hold on a second...Submitted by writerati on April 15, 2007 - 8:28am.
I just had a thought... Apparently some people (like me) are having this problem with the OmniShadow "Save" function, while others say it works fine. JoeJ: Is your copy of Shadow Desktop registered? Mine isn't, and I'm getting the error. I wonder if this would work if I were using a registered copy? The OmniShadow home page states that the script "requires you to have a licensed copy of the Shadow Desktop for part of the background conversion." That might be our problem. Can anyone confirm this? Forgive me if I'm hesitant to slap down some $ to register and test this theory. =) » POSTED IN:
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