No data loss here and the newest version has background backups to protect your database.

Imran, I’m very sorry for the problems you’re experiencing and hope a resolution comes your way soon. MarketCircle’s products, in my experience, are exceptionally well thought out, written and designed apps. Furthermore, their support and accessibility to senior staff has impressed me to no end.

It would be interesting to know one day when you have the opportunity to reload your various contacts and such on a stock machine if your technical difficulties vanish. (Essentially, what I’m suggesting is the problem might turn out to be localized to your particular machine and not the software. I do this gently in the hopes of not creating a flamewar over the topic.)

All the best!

“We all know you have had problems with Sync, but it appears that rather than working with MC support, or listening to other people on here—myself included—that have had no issues at all and have tried to help, you would much rather baselessly rubbish a fine product with no just cause. Your experience is not common, tragic though it is.”

You can see the full thread here:
http://forums.marketcircle.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&f=7391090833&m=1581061805&r=1581061805

I will however, invite Jill McCubbin and AJ to speak directly to the matter here. Guys… you have the floor.

http://www.imran.com/irate/reviews/DayLiteCausesDataLoss.htm

to see how DayLite causes data loss. Repeatable, dangerous.

But, I guess it has come to this, that DayLite is giving away the product to get hopefully some good reviews.

I am hoping that your readers and you want objective reviews/comments, I strongly suggest that people considering DayLite look at all available info to ensure they don’t shoot themselves in the foot.

I used to praise DayLite and MarketCircle. But, several of their upgrades have caused me (and others) grief. Check out their Forum discussion areas to see. Search for Synch Problems type threads.

The current version is BUGGY still. They are good people who try hard to dix their product, but right now, the product CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS. I repeat, be prepared to do lots of work over when a synch will destroy what you put in. Normally, that can be a mere annoyance, but it is doubly horrible when you take some important phone numbers during a call, enter them in, clearly see them, and after a synch find the number, or URL, completely disappeared.

It’s a great effort on MarketCircle’s part to make this product, but it is dangerous until they fix the issues I and others have sent in hundreds of crash reports on.

Then there are ridiculous examples of poorly thought integration. Their field names and headings do not match up with AddressBook. Any developer writing to Mac OS X should be thinking that most people will get core functionality (and integration benefits) of the Mac’s awesome synching capabilities, through the use of built-in iSync capabilities, so one would expect them to ensure their field names etc. matched up at least to that core minimum. Not so DayLite. Instead of my opinion, feel free to follow the threads on their forums.

I have not even opened the Pandora’s Box of what installing Leopard will do – so I am sitting waiting to install a perfectly good brand new Leopard DVD until I know for sure it will not cause DayLite to destroy more data or time or effort than usual.

I am anxiously awaiting these issues being resolved before I buy more licenses, install them on new Macs and ship them to my team in USA and Pakistan.

Imran
IMRAN.TV

We’ve recently started testing/setting up DayLite at our small consulting firm. Then we upgraded to Leopard, whose mail.app quickly crashed due to the DayLite plugin. I believe market circle is working on this, so any help on your end would be appreciated. Thanks.

Best whishes from the Netherlands,

Ernst Wallinga
CEO Management Resultants BV