[missing-sync-palmos-talk] iCal no longer syncing. Help!

[Brian M. Criscuolo]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Rob Roberts wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Things just are not consistent with this. First, let me note that  
> it will not sync regardless of whether I have it  sync all in the  
> conduit or whether I have it sync just 2 weeks.  It hangs in either  
> case.
>
> When I first started working on this, it would not sync-- the  
> database was on the treo and the iCal was empty.  Then, and I'm not  
> 100% sure why, it did sync and put everything on in iCal.  It  
> screwed up a few dates for recurring yearly events, but that was  
> easily fixed.  Then I tried to sync just 2 weeks worth, and that is  
> the point where it started hanging again.  I went back to a full  
> sync, and that didn't work as well.
>
> Thus, it sounds like you have no other recommendations to get this  
> working, is that correct?  Is the problem I am having unique and  
> unsolvable at this point, or is this relate to something you know  
> is wrong and are fixing in a future release?  In other words, are  
> there things I can do now to get this working or should I just go  
> back to the Palm Desktop?
>

Its definitely not something that I know is wrong - yours is unique.  
Have you tried creating a new calendar, adding one event to it, and  
setting that as the only calendar to sync? I'd be interested to know  
if a simple case works for you.

Otherwise, to get on with your life, rolling back would be your best  
bet at this time. I'm sorry.

b


> Rob
> -----------
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Brian M. Criscuolo wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Rob Roberts wrote:
>
>> Well, it stopped working again.  I tried syncing just 2 weeks back  
>> and that made it hang again during syncs with iCal.  I re-ran  
>> dbscan on the treo but there were no new errors.  I reset the sync  
>> to all, but it still just hangs until the Treo eventually times  
>> out (25 minutes or so) saying the connection was lost.  I don't  
>> have multiple calendars, just one with about 7500 events.  Is that  
>> too many for MS to handle?  (Palm Desktop had no problem with that  
>> and syncing the datebook (after an  intial sync) takes less than  
>> 15 seconds.)  A
>>
>
> Rob, a problem with the treo db is unlikely to be the problem. You  
> have a ton of records in iCal that you're synchronizing. They'll  
> get through if the timeout doesn't happen, but it is a considerable  
> amount of data for a sync client like ours to have to deal with.  
> What is your date range preference (in the conduit settings) set  
> to? All? Maybe try limiting that a bit and see if it helps; also,  
> set it to desktop overwrites.
>
> b
>
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