CaVeRoCk Computing <[email protected]> wrote on 7/24/09 9:35 AM:
> Check the calendars that are setup within ICAL and make sure that your > events are the same color as the Entourage calendar, then check the settings > on your IPHONE and make sure it is setup to sync with the Entourage calendar > within ICAL. IPHONES are typically setup by default to sync with the HOME > calendar which will not talk to Entourage. > > Home this helps... Exactly. What a fool boggler. But you need to be very careful in this arrangement: Entourage calendar <-> iCal Entourage calendar <-> iPhone Entourage calendar Sometimes, out of the blue, I'll get a message that "X number of events have a conflict. Review now?" Sometimes it is just one event, but sometimes the warning is for a huge number of events, such as 654 items. I suppose that iSync is somehow out of sync. This is very strange behavior, since I have already made the sync hundreds of times among... Entourage calendar <-> iCal Entourage calendar <-> iPhone Entourage calendar Therefore, all the calendar items in Entourage calendar, iCal Entourage calendar and iPhone iPhone Entourage calendar were already the same (except for new entries since the last sync). Even if I check "No, don't review, STOP!", the sync continues. If I review the conflicts, the data in iCal and iPhone does not conflict. So what's the problem? Why does iSync think that the data is different? Dunno. When I review the supposed conflicts between iPhone and iCal, they look the same. But the result can be be that entries in iCal are sometimes deleted, duplicated or triplicated? Why? Dunno. I have spent hours on the phone with Apple Care on this problem. They can't figure it out. The problem seems random. But when it happens, any "All Day Event" is always duplicated or triplicated. The same with auto-generated calendar holidays. I have entirely stopped entering "All Day Event". Instead, I enter events that start at 12:01 am and end at 11:59 pm. That's much safer. Auto-generated calendared holidays are particularly a problem. My iCal calendar shows holidays for both iCal Holidays and those generated from Entourage. So, if I am displaying in iCal both the iCal Holidays calendar, and the iCal Entourage calendar, I can end up with duplicates or triplicates of all holidays, i.e., 4 or 6 or 8 of the same holiday. If I don't fix it by hand (all the way back to 2004), then on the next "bad sync" I could have 8 or 16 or 24 duplicate holidays and All Day events. What a mess! Workaround: I backup my iCal database every time before a sync. Therefore, if the sync screws up my iCal Entourage calendar (and therefore, Entourage's calendar), I can restore iCal from the backup. The iCal restore will then restore Entourage's calendar. Also, I have iSync set to "[x] Show Data Alert when more than 5% of the data on this computer will be changed." What's the solution? Use Mobile Me? It sounds great, but that has led to even more screwy results, since Mobile Me is then syncing: iMac iCal <-> iMac Entourage MacBook Pro iCal <-> MacBook Pro Entourage iPhone <-> MacBook Pro iCal <-> iMac iCal <-> Mobile Me online calendar If there's a screw up in Mobile Me, then I have wiped out six different calendar databases, which had all been perfectly in sync before. Apple and MS need to fix this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [email protected] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
