Ugh. NO, I don't care to be a guinea pig, or any other sort of research
animal. I'm glad that you guys posted this information before I imported
all my data to Entourage, which I was planning to do literally any day now.
I guess now I won't do it until this bug is fixed.
Any comment from MS?
> I don't know. Want to try it out? Probably, yes. When I moved a single
> occurrence to another date, the old location seemed to create a sort of
> invisible phantom instance which caused the crash. So most likely deleting
> would do the same thing. But I'm not 100% certain. You can be guinea pig, if
> you like.
>
> PB
>
> On 8/8/01 2:01 PM, "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Does "edit a single instance" include deleting a single instance of the
>> event?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Mike
>>
>> PS: Any comment from the folks at Microsoft about the possibility of a fix?
>>
>>> On 8/8/01 1:23 PM, "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I definitely want to sync with the palm. So, what can I do safely,
>>>> and what can't I do?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>> There are no problems if you use only Entourage. There is only a problem
>>>>> if
>>>>> you then sync with Palm.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Like he said, don't edit a single instance of recurring event. It's a bad
>>> bug if you then want to sync with Palm. You'll have to make individual
>>> events, rather than one recurring event, so you change them later on. You
>>> might find the script "Duplicate Calendar Events" useful for doing this. It
>>> will let you make many individual events. I might even write a script for
>>> replacing recurring events with many individual events so you can do it all
>>> in one shot. The trouble with that would be that you'd have to describe the
>>> recurrence pattern to the script since AppleScript can't read that. that
>>> would be a big effort (on my part, particularly).
>>>
>>> In the meantime, if you've already edited single instances of recurring
>>> events, you'll have to delete them if you want to avoid the crashing when
>>> you want to sync with Palm. I'll send the instructions later when I fish
>>> them out from where they are at present.
>>>
>>
>
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