Outlook Calander Catagories

[Guest En_croute]

At work I use Outlook, and it syncs very well with my Compact MDA.

I want sync some of the information on my Home PC, and so I also sync Contacts and Tasks - all fine so far.

I decided that I want some calander items (the personal ones) to be synced at home as well, so while at work I labeled every personal appointment and birthday etc with a catagory of "Personal".

At work I set the calander settings to sync all calander items, (not a short task!) and when I got home I set the calander options to sync only those with a catagory of Personal.

The first sync ignored the personal tag, and loaded all items from MDA to Outlook. I thought that maybe the catagory tag only works from Outlook to the MDA, so I deleted the non personal items in my home outlook. This should have been fine, as these were not due to be synced as they were not marked as personal.

Well you can guess what happened - all my work appointments were then erased from my MDA. So I will have to backup my work calander before syncing there, so I can restore them all afterwards.

The question (at last!) is why did ActiveSync ignore the "Personal" only instruction, and has anyone managed to get a partial calander to replicate from one machine, and a full calander from another?

Any ideas ?

Edited September 9, 2005 by En_croute