Michel Bintener: > I'm not sure I actually understand iSync's behaviour on your machine. > Generally speaking, if you click on Reset All Devices, it should reset your > phone data first and then overwrite the phone data with data from the Truth. > Now that you have a backup of your Entourage database, see what happens if > you delete all the information on your phone manually and then perform an > iSync reset.
As reported, it tries to send the *whole* calendar to the phone - with repeating events long into the future - and eventually runs out of memory. I need a way to just send the next month's worth of events to the phone, as per my sync settings. Steve = : ^ ) > On 01/06/2007 12:11, "Steve Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Michel, >> thanks for this. Sync is (kind of) working again, except that I keep getting >> a message that the phone's calendar memory is full so it can't receive all >> the calendar events. I deleted all the calendar event in the phone and set >> iSync to "Don't sync events prior to: 1 week ago: and "Don't sync events >> after: two weeks", and then performed Reset All Devices. It again failed >> with the out of memory message but I can see from the phone that iSync is >> trying to send *all* calendar events to it, and ignoring the time >> constraints. >> >> Perhaps the time constraints only apply to syncing and not to resetting the >> device. I'm terrified that, if I delete all the calendar events in the phone >> then synch with the Mac, that this will delete everything from the calendar >> in Entourage. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Steve = : ^ ) >> >> Michel Bintener: >> >>> Hi Steve, >>> >>> the behaviour you are seeing is normal, to some extent. It is normal that >>> iSync now wants to sync all your contacts and calendar entries to your >>> phone; by replacing the Sync Services items with your Entourage data, you >>> have inadvertently made iSync believe that these are entirely new items >>> (which, from a technical perspective, they are). >>> >>> I'd recommend opening iSync and then resetting all devices (Devices>Reset >>> All Devices). The phone memory will now be purged and replaced with the new >>> items, which might take a while. Once you've done that, only those items >>> that you have recently modified will get synched to your phone. Note that >>> this will erase every calendar entry and contact on your phone, so make sure >>> there are no entries in there which do not exist on your Mac and/or which >>> you want to keep. >>> >>> As for the duplicated entries, I have no idea how that happened. >>> >>> >>> On 01/06/2007 11:24, "Steve Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've been using iSync to sync Entourage 2004 and my Nokia 6280 and it's >>>> been >>>> working really well - calendar, tasks and contacts. >>>> >>>> However, I just noticed that I had five copies of one particular contact. I >>>> deleted the four duplicates and, to force Entourage to write this to the >>>> Apple Address Book (or to 'The Truth' actually), I deselected the 3 Sync >>>> Services items in preferences, then reselected them. >>>> >>>> Entourage told me that (from memory) I'd changed a folder that was syncing >>>> or something (sorry I forget) but what I do remember is that it asked me to >>>> choose between what was in Entourage and what was stored by sync services. >>>> I'd just made the changes in Entourage so I chose Entourage to overwrite >>>> sync services. >>>> >>>> Now synching with the phone is broken, Every time I try to synch, the phone >>>> sends 275 contacts and 86 calendar events, whereas before only one or two >>>> items were exchanged. Then iSync says "An unexpected error occurred" and >>>> "Synchronization failed", and the phone reports "Synchronisation info: >>>> Calendar: Incomplete. Unable to process all items." >>>> >>>> Does anybody know what I've broken, and, more importantly, how to get it to >>>> work again? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> Steve = : ^ ) >>>> >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
