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JRAPQQ
Posts: 3
Registered: ‎02-15-2012
My Carrier: Telstra Australia

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

Just sent an EMail to 'help@rim.com' and received an EMail telling me they won't help.

 

There was an airline called PAN AM which had the same attitude.

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danielhuot
Posts: 7
Registered: ‎02-15-2012
My Carrier: Bell

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

the problem has reappeared again after a dozen of consecutive sync....

 

The best marketing strategy for Apple should to offer a switch to IPhone by giving a great discount to current BB owner.

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drester210
Posts: 3
Registered: ‎02-15-2012
My Carrier: C Spire

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

Thinking of doing a windows 7 restore to an earlier point when this Failure / BUG did work with my sync, but really don't want to go to all that trouble.

Any comments or suggestions? should we just wait for a fix?
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DrJWR
Posts: 30
Registered: ‎02-09-2011
My Carrier: Sprint

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

Same problem:  Windows XP; DM ran flawlessly with 6.X; just installed 7.X and hangs up at "Preparing Sync Preview."  Trying to sync 9930

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martintt98
Posts: 1
Registered: ‎02-15-2012
My Carrier: Verizon

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

I too installed, removed and reinstalled several times on my XP machine.  It looks like the software is **bleep** and syncing to a desktop calendar will not be happening until RIM figures it out.

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msd1962
Posts: 76
Registered: ‎01-24-2010
My Carrier: VodaFone

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

It is really shame on RIM that they have come up with an upgrade with problems.....I had down loaded the new DM 7 today and faced the problem....SO decided to roll back to v6.1.0.35....

 

So remove the DM 7 thru the Control Panel....reboot the computer....then visit.http://www.blackberryforums.com/rim-software/253387-archived-rim-desktop-software.html and doenload the last version....

 

It worked with me....So I hope it will work for you.......

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resaccol
Posts: 3
Registered: ‎01-25-2011
My Carrier: Verizon Wireless

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

Same problem as already described. Win 7. Let sit for 2 hours and never completed.

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AA388
Posts: 73
Registered: ‎01-20-2012
My Carrier: Vodafone Uk

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

Oh fun again with BB and software, Head in Sand comes to mind. But a big organisation cannot pull the rabbit out of a hat and will need time to fix things so they need a break but the one who released the update needs sacked now.

 

Looking at the error log the problem I am having which sounds the same as everyone else is the DM is looking for the outlooks active profile and can't find the profile name and then waits and waits trying to get it and with no timeout set doesn't break out of the loop.

 

Just my take on it.

 

 

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gvoigt
Posts: 7
Registered: ‎02-16-2012
My Carrier: Bell

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

This software update is another piece of **bleep**. This will be the second time I downloaded your updates and it cost me a day of grief. Does anyone ever test this stuff. I've had to find the old 6.1.0 and go back to that. Guys ....this is unforgivable. Why to I stay loyal ???
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DrJWR
Posts: 30
Registered: ‎02-09-2011
My Carrier: Sprint

Re: Blackberry Desktop Manager hangs at "Preparing Sync Preview"

After about 20 minutes, the "preview" showed itself.  Several hundred "conflicts" were named that needed to be resolved; why, I'm not sure since the 9930 was synced daily, sometimes twice daily, with DM 6.X  The window showing the conflicts, and asking how to resolve them, was opaque in meaning, so I just clicked proceed, knowing that I had a backup, and that my laptop still runs DM 6.X with everything backed up there.  Hundreds of overdue notices then appeared on the desktop Outlook.  Once all this was cleared up, DM 7.X now runs fine.

 

But, when first running DM 7.X (not since then) I also had to reset each sync configurarion -- calendar, contacts, memos, and so on -- with Outlook, and had to deal with a dialogue box never seen before that gave the option of "Outlook" or "Outlook backup" for connecting, whatever that meant.

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