[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: unexplainable event-syncing behaviour with new calendar

[Brian M. Criscuolo]

J,

I'd *love* to comment about this as this issue is one that I was  
unable to solve in time for the 5.1.1 release to go out. I'm working  
with an Apple engineer on the Sync Services team to figure out how to  
handle things.

What you're seeing is a problem with detached events (events that are  
part of a repeating event that have been modified) being "pulled" to  
the device but not the "main" event from which they were detached. I  
*think* I have an idea as to what is going on, but I haven't been  
able to get through the code well enough to figure out if my theory  
is correct. It looks like we pull the detached event first, and in  
the process of telling Sync Services that we've accepted the event  
(so it can update its database) that also accepts the main event -  
and so we never see that as a new event to pull, and we never add it  
to the device.

I'm hoping this is the case, as it is quite frustrating.

b

On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:29 AM, J Irving wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have upgraded to 5.1.1 and still this problem persists.  I can add a
> little more detail:
>
> 1. Create new calendar
> 2. Populate with a weekly repeating event which ends a 9 months from
> now, 1 hr duration.
> 3. Change 5 or 6 of the repeating events (without changing the rest)
> 4. Delete 4 or 5 of the repeating events.
> 5. Add come unrelated standalone events (untimed events).
> 6. Sync the device.
>
> The result is that the *modified* (and therefore now standalone)
> events from the original repeating events are present, in the new
> calendar (appropriately named) on the treo, as well as the untimed
> standalone events.  But *none* of the repeating events which were
> unmodified show up in the treo.
>
> This is very odd, particularly since other weekly events in other
> calendars have sync'd fine.
>
> Anyone else seen this?  Anyone from MS care to comment?  I see lots of
> discussion about problems with events that span multiple days (I
> noticed that those have come through to my treo as zero-duration
> events), but you suggest creating repeating events as a workaround...
>
> TIA
> cheers
> J
>
> On 9/5/06, J Irving <diazepam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm having a problem syncing a new calendar I've created on my dektop
>> iCal with my Treo 650.  Here's the steps:
>>
>> 1. Created new calendar.
>> 2. Populated it with a mixture of repeating and one-off events.
>> 3. Checked the name of the calendar in the Missing Sync conduit  
>> config.
>> 4. Sync the device.
>>
>> What happens is that the standalone events (which happen to be
>> untimed) are copied over, but the repeating events are not.  I tried
>> both syncing, and then overwriting the handheld.  Neither result in
>> the new repeating events being copied over.
>>
>> I have other calendars which have repeating events in them, which  
>> sync
>> fine.  I really am at a loss to understand what's going on here.
>>
>> Anyone seen this, or have a workaround?
>>
>> cheers
>> J
>>
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Brian M. Criscuolo
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