This is somewhat of a double post as the original was on a BlackBerry forum and should really have been asked on a Lotus Notes forum.
I have a BlackBerry Bold 9650 that I use with BIS. I use Google sync for Calendar and Contacts with Thunderbird but don’t have a desktop PIM for the memos or todos. I can not install Outlook on my company computer which uses Lotus Notes v7 with BES.
In trying to keep everything in one place, I would like to use Lotus Notes as my PIM for the Calendar, ToDos, Contacts and Memo, but do not want to connect my personal BlackBerry to the company BES nor do I want to have my Calendar and ToDos show up on the server copy of my mail file.
I can sync the address book and memos (journal) to my Lotus Notes locally and they work very well. However, when I sync the calendar and todos with my replica mail file, they also get replicated back to the server.
Is it possible to have the BlackBerry desktop software sync with an archive copy of my mail file? This would allow me to work with a Desktop PIM for the Calendar and ToDos and still keep them off of the server.
Obviously it would be better if there were something dedicated like Palm Desktop or even the old Lotus Organizer that I could use as a desktop PIM rather than this workaround. But I understand that it’s no longer supported.
I tried creating a dummy notes.ini file and then modifying it to point to an archive mail file hoping that BlackBerry Desktop Manager would be able to sync to the archive file. But unfortunately I don’t know enough about programming the notes.ini file to make it work. I kept getting notes Kernel code errors (ie 525, 4238 and 6402 are some codes I was getting after trying different settings. )
I would appreciate if anyone could provide any specifics on how to do this workaround to allow a BlackBerry to sync to an archive mail file.