Ronni - thanks heaps! At least I feel a bit better about it, knowing that it is not me. I will give it a go, just turning calendar on. Thanks a million! Rod
on 26/10/08 11:17 AM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 26/10/2008, at 9:55 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: > >> Hi >> I 've got my iphone and MobileMe working fine EXCEPT: >> In the last few weeks, when I sync I get duplicate Calendar items in >> Entourage. ( the phone calendar and ical are ok) >> Has anyone else experienced this? >> Please do you know of a solution? >> Entourage is my preferred Calendar and Email application. >> I have had to turn off Entourage syncing. >> This means any items I enter in my Entourage calendar do not end up on >> Mobileme and my phone. >> >> At this point I am considering using iCal instead, but I prefer >> Entourage >> for it's choices of alarms and reminders and Event Categories etc. >> >> Thanks >> Rod Blitvich > > Hi Rod, > > Entourage has sync service issue problems, which has not been fixed. > A lot of discussion about it and one 'Workaround' found here: > <http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Entourage/6607/7> > Begin Quote: > "Brian M. Criscuolo > Lead Software Engineer > Mark/Space, Inc. > > Workaround: > > I've written about this numerous times a long with others. Sync > services in Entourage is quite buggy/flaky. If you have more than one > module turned on for sync'g you'll encounter many weird behaviours . > Just sync your most active module. In my case, I have only calendar > turned on. > > Before doing any of the following make sure you back up the Entourage > main identity, iCal, and Addressbook before > doing any of the above. > > To correctly set everything right, turn off all modules in Ent. Go to > iCal and delete the iCal calendar. Go to Ent, Preferences, sync > services and turn on Calendar, > choose combine, then OK. It will build a perfect new iCal calendar > and you should notice everything sync'g right. Just leave your one most > used module turned on. To update the other less used modules the > following is what I do to ensure sync services with Entourage doesn't > get messed up. > > This is the time consuming stuff. You want to update your addressbook > and/or Notes by sync'g > them. Go to Ent, turn off calendar then OK, delete the iCal Ent > calendar, go to Ent > and turn on Addressbook only, choose combine then OK and your > addressbook > will be in sync. If you also want to update Notes you can do this at > this point by turning off Addressbook, OK, open sync services, turn on > Notes, OK, choose combine. Back to Ent, turn off Addressbook or Notes > (whichever is enabled), OK, then open sync services and turn on > Calendar, combine, OK and it will just create a new iCal Calendar. > > Finally, if you're using a handheld after doing any of the above all > three Missing Sync modules Events/Tasks, Notes and Contacts should be > set to overwrite on first sync to ensure they are in perfect harmony. > If you just sync you might get sync services errors which can be messy > to sort out." > End Quote: > > <http://www.themssforum.com/Entourage/Duplicate-calendar-106264/> > <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8106667> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Rod Blitvich - Amy & Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
