[missing-sync-palmos-talk] observation on syncing repeating events

[David Turley]

Blaine,

Did the test event you created have a date set in iCal when the  
repeat was to stop, or was it a perpetual repeat?


On Jan 4, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Blaine Wilson wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I ran a quick test and created a weekly repeating event  in iCal,  
> starting in the past and going into the future. It synced fine to  
> the handheld. I then deleted all entries from today into the future  
> (iCal) and synced. The future entries were correctly deleted from  
> the handheld, and the past ones remained as they should...
>
> So, I'd suggest submitting a request via the support form (http:// 
> www.markspace.com/support/request_palmos.html) if this is a problem  
> in the future. (Note I tested on a TX, which is a newer device as  
> well, so the handheld PIM applications should be similar.
>
> Regards,
>
> Blaine
> Mark/Space QA
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:33 PM, David Turley wrote:
>
>> I spent a confusing 20 minutes this morning till I figure this  
>> out, so I'm posting this in case it helps someone else.
>>
>> My wife got a Z22 for Christmas and has been syncing iCal and  
>> Address Book with M/S without problems. She had a weekly repeating  
>> event in iCal, which she deleted this morning. When she did a sync  
>> the event still showed in the Palm. So we did it again. Still  
>> right there at 4pm today in the Palm, but it wasn't in iCal. So I  
>> did a desktop overwrites device sync. The event was still on the  
>> Z22! I went ahead and deleted the event on the device and figured  
>> I ask here when I got a chance. Then I started looking at her  
>> entries in iCal. The original event was a weekly repeat with a end  
>> date in the future. When she deleted the even in iCal, she deleted  
>> all the future occurrences from today on. Apparently Missing  
>> Sync / Palm was reading the ending date of the repeat and  
>> inserting an entry. In iCal the event wasn't displayed.
>>
>> So it appears there's a conflict if a repeating event has an end  
>> date but some of the events are deleted before that date.
>>