If anyone is interested - and if you are receiving calendar events from Outlook 2003 you may have the issue of this bug:
I have written a few shell scripts to fix the calendar.ics file before calling the multisync process. The sync is run via a cron job every 10 minutes executing a script: /home/kylea/Documents/Scripts/calendar.sh #!/bin/bash -x # Process the calendar.ics file via multisync # First call calendar_fix_UID.sh, this pre processes the calendar.ics file # removing and line wraps on UID: ~/Documents/Scripts/calendar_fix_UID.sh # Now call the sync process ~/Documents/Scripts/calendar_sync.sh First fixes the UID: wrapping, I used sed - with help from http://rhcelinuxguide.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/useful-one-line-scripts- for-sed-unix-stream-editor/ #!/bin/bash -x # Process the calendar.ics file - remove wrapped UID: lines # # From this.... # # UID: # 040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000006046A0AFD144C901000000000000000010 # 0000000E4DF46277EA324C85C0C223DA9AA877 # # To this.... # # UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000006046A0AFD144C901000000000000000010 # 0000000E4DF46277EA324C85C0C223DA9AA877 # cat ~/Documents/Calendar/calendar.ics | sed -e 's/UID:\r/UID\\/g' -e :a -e '/\\$/N; s/\\\n/:/; ta' -e 's/UID: /UID:/g' > ~/Documents/Calendar/calendar_tmp.ics cp ~/Documents/Calendar/calendar_tmp.ics ~/Documents/Calendar/calendar.ics rm ~/Documents/Calendar/calendar_tmp.ics 2. and the script to do the actual sync: ----> ~/Documents/Scripts/calendar_sync.sh #!/bin/bash -x # Process the calendar.ics file via multisync # see calendar_fix_UID.sh also - this pre processes the calendar.ics file msynctool --sync nokia-sync --filter-objtype contact --filter-objtype note -- note --conflict 2/i Hope this helps someone else ** Attachment added: "calendar_fix_UID.sh" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19754902/calendar_fix_UID.sh -- msynctool hangs when sending an Outlook calendar item to phone https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286247 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
