[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Super Duper Slow Calendar

[Blaine Wilson]

Thanks for the information.

Blaine

On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Daniel Goldenholz wrote:

> I manually created each event. Here is why:
> I had the problem for a while, and during the time of the problem I  
> had been adding new ical events.
> Step 1, I synced subsets of my calendars until I located the  
> troublesome one.
> Then when I was troubleshooting it, I cut and pasted events out of  
> my synced calendar into a temp calendar. I cut all but 5 recently  
> added ones, and the trouble still existed.
> Also, I set my palm date to 2011, and purged all previous events,  
> and the calendar was still slow.
> Therefore in light of the above two bits of info, I suspected that  
> the calendar had somehow gotten some screwy corruption that was  
> hidden from me.
> By manually rewriting the events, I was sure that I knew exactly  
> what was going in.
> Also - I made sure to avoid "banner" events, i.e. events that span  
> more than one day. Instead I used "repeating" events. I don't know  
> if that helped or not, but I read online that this is a known bug  
> as well.
>
>
>
> Blaine Wilson wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Thank you for the report. So, you manually recreated each event,  
>> or  did you pull them accross as .ics files. (Export the events,  
>> then  import them into a new calendar?)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Blaine
>> QA Engineer
>> Mark/Space
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Daniel Goldenholz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again. No one ever replied to my previous message. I solved  
>>> it  myself. I thought someone else may benefit from this info:
>>>
>>> I spent hours digging through the internet and playing with hard-  
>>> resets and so forth. In the end, I learned this:
>>> it is possible for a calendar file to somehow get screwed up,  
>>> and  slow your Palm Calendar program down to idiotically slow  
>>> speeds.
>>> It does not seem to reflect the number of events. It is either a   
>>> bad event, or a bad calendar.
>>> What I did was create a new calendar, manually entered in the  
>>> info  for it (same as my old, faulty calendar), and after a hard  
>>> reset  and re-installing everything, my Calendar works fine again.
>>>
>>> Since for some reason, you cannot have events that span multiple   
>>> days in Palm Calendar, the workaround there is to simply use the   
>>> repeating event option instead.
>>>
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