[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Birthday event duplicates on Palm

[Scott Gruby]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:25 PM, <merrill at bluerug.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have missing sync installed on two macs and am using iSync  
> with .mac. I have a number of contacts that are maintained in  
> addressbook on the mac os x 10.4.8 systems. Some of these contacts  
> have birthday entries.  Everytime I sync the palm E2 using missing  
> sync I get a an additional event entry on the palm calendar for the  
> birthday. This is in addition to the Birthday event for the day.   
> So, after several syncs I have one Birthday event plus multiple  
> events, one for each synch, that are titled "Joe's Birthday", no  
> time, repeat every year, category "Birthdays".  These do not appear  
> in the Mac OS addressbook.
>
> This has been happening with both current and previous missing sync  
> versions and Mac OS X updates.  It does not appear to be related to  
> having multiple Macs syncing with iSync.
>
> Any ideas as to how to prevent these extra events from appearing?

When selecting calendars to sync in the Missing Sync, make sure that  
the birthday calendar is NOT selected. The Palm pulls birthdays out  
of the contacts and puts those on the calendars. iCal does something  
similar when you select "Show Birthdays Calendar". So basically you  
have 2 programs being smart and putting in birthdays. So, just  
unselect the birthdays calendar and I believe you will be all set.

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