[missing-sync-palmos-talk] bug with repeating events

[Brian M. Criscuolo]

This was fixed this morning. It occurred because of an error in  
calculating which day of the month (like 3rd Saturday) that doesn't  
happen on all dates (or months) for that matter.

The next beta will fix this by using functionality in Tiger to do the  
calendar crunching.

b

On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Robert Powell wrote:

> OK, sort of responding to myself but this is one I haven't seen.  
> Using my Palm calendar I set a repeating event, beginning today,  
> for every month on the 2nd Monday of each month. So far so good.  
> Following my next sync the event was OK in the Palm but in iCal was  
> listed for today but it was also listed for next Monday. I checked  
> and the iCal settings had magically become for the 3rd Monday of  
> every month rather than the 2nd, even though they are still set for  
> the 2nd Monday on the Palm. It would appear, at this time, that we  
> can't trust anything that repeats in MS. This is extremely  
> disruptive of my workflow. Does the upcoming beta fix this? Any  
> ideas on the Life Balance issue I addressed below?
>
> Bob Powell
>
> Robert M. Powell
> Powell & Associates Science Services
> 140 Pleasant Lake Drive
> Waterford, MI 48327
> Phone:    (248) 738-3860
> Cell:        (248) 977-0317
> Email:    rpowell at powellassociates.com
> Web:    http://www.powellassociates.com
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Robert Powell wrote:
>
>> Late last night I realized I was having issues I hadn't noticed  
>> before. I use Life Balance on the Mac and Palm as part of my GTD  
>> implementation. Life Balance was the one Palm/Mac integrated  
>> program that I'd never had ANY problems with, it worked perfectly.  
>> Last night I noticed that an event (on the Mac) that should have  
>> been coming due was still showing a check mark that it had been  
>> done. I checked and even though Life Balance said it was "by  
>> calendar" it had "no entry" (I'm trying and probably failing to  
>> remember the actual Life Balance terms, I've corrected all the  
>> events now). The problems were with repeating weekly and monthly  
>> events set to dates. If it was a simple "repeat monthly" without a  
>> specific date it was fine. If it was something like "make the  
>> house payment" and it was always set for the 28th of every month  
>> it was gone. So somehow MS killed these in my Mac Life Balance.  
>> When I synced they showed up in the iCal calendar on my Mac but  
>> were duplicated (either that or the originals mysteriously came  
>> back). There are so many combinations and permutations of the  
>> issues with syncing that it's difficult to get one's head around.  
>> I thought I had all my problems worked out then this crops up. I  
>> may have solved it by deleting the iCal duplicates and setting the  
>> Life Balance conduit to overwrite the handheld, but sheesh!
>>
>> Also, occasionally, one of the contacts in my Address Book is  
>> mysteriously duplicated, even though several prior syncs have been  
>> OK. I also noticed that for some reason the card that was "My  
>> Card" was no longer labeled/iconed as such. These issues are  
>> sucking up a huge amount of my time. Maybe a notebook and pencil  
>> would be better (as my gf has told me).
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> Robert M. Powell
>> Powell & Associates
>> 140 Pleasant Lake Drive
>> Waterford, MI 48327
>> Phone:    (248) 738-3860
>> Cell:        (248) 977-0317
>> Email:    rpowell at powellassociates.com
>> Web:    http://www.powellassociates.com
>>
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2005, at 7:23 AM, David Turley wrote:
>>
>>> So the alarm issue is fixed? "Sync" still implies one could  
>>> create an event on the Palm and have it sync to the Mac. It's bad  
>>> enough that no one at Mark/Space thought to test an alarm with  
>>> sound, but now it seems even a monthly repeating event (surely  
>>> not that unusual) was not tested either.
>>>
>>> It's very disappointing that even very basic PIM syncing was not  
>>> functioning as advertised before release. I understand some folks  
>>> are having unusual issues, but repeating events and alarms?! Sheesh.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 13, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Brian M. Criscuolo wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is fixed for the next beta. One of the iCal event types in  
>>>> b2 (Message with sound) was not being read properly.
>>>>
>>>> b
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:16 PM, David Turley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 13, 2005, at 6:56 PM, David Turley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  It's bad enough to have to give up syncing subscribed  
>>>>>> calendars, now I have to give up creating events on the Palm.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One also needs to give up on alarms with MS since they all get  
>>>>> set to 0 mins before the event, not matter what the setting is  
>>>>> in iCal. These limitations should really be listed on the  
>>>>> "features" page of the web site.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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Brian M. Criscuolo
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Mark/Space, Inc.
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