[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] ical making duplicate calendar file

[Ken Freeman]

You may have seen my earlier posting that we have confirmed a problem with
read only calendars. The problem may also involved notes to an event and
those notes being flagged as changed on the device. This was forcing some
read only calendar events to look changed, even though the user did not
change them.

You mentioned that you had disabled the read only calendars and still saw
problems. It turns out that there is another bug where tasks are still
getting synchronized for ALL the calendars. I'm guessing that a task with a
note might have been been the culprit here?

We are working on a fix for these problems and will announce the fix to the
list when it is available.

Ken


On 7/30/05 4:55 AM, "ms_winmobile_talk" <ms_winmobile_talk at shpartners.com>
wrote:

> I saw it earlier in the archives, and can confirm this: the ical sync
> mechanism is making duplicate calendar files.
> As I understand it, this happens when the ical file is read-only to the
> sync mechanism.
> In my case, the duplicated calendar is one where I subscribed to a
> published calendar. Other calendars (and that includes published
> calendars) are not duplicated.
> 
> This even happens when I am not asking the programme to sync with that
> particular calendar. The duplicated calendar can not be seen immediately
> by the "iCal Settings dialog", but it can after restarting the sync
> application.
> Removing the duplicated calendar in iCal is picked up immediately by the
> sync application.
> 
> I conducted these tests with a factory reset pocketpc (is there a way to
> complete erase the pocketpc calendar without doing that?).
> 
> During my first tests, I even saw the sync mechanism write into and erase
> from the subscribed calendar - it is supposed to know this is a read only
> calendar - the previous version of missing sync recognised this situation.
> 
> I then enabled a read/write calender in the settings - synced - and it
> didn't get any data into the pocketpc.
> I wrote a test event in iCal - synced - no data transferred.
> I changed the settings to "All Calendars" - synced - no data transferred.
> I had a look at the log:
> 7/30/05 13:49:11  MSUI:  iCal: NSInvalidArgumentException
> [ISDRecordIdMapper replaceLocalId:withLocalId:]: you can't change the
> local id com.apple.syncservices:A65F7126-C716-43B9-88FA-C0112A6CD9E5 ->
> com.markspace.msppc.event_calendar_petershp: both the new and old ids are
> already mapped to global ids
> This happens during every sync I've made.
> Apparantly the syncManager is TELLING your application that something is
> very wrong - which you seem to ignore.
> 
> I hope this helps a bit in ironing the bugs out. Hope to see a new version
> soon, because this one is'nt very useable to me.
> BTW: the Address Book syncs OK.
> 
> 
> 
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