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

[Blaine Wilson]

Hi David,

I set up an end date in iCal and verified that the events did indeed  
cease on the end date.

Regards,

Blaine
Mark/Space

On Jan 4, 2006, at 4:08 PM, David Turley wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>
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