[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Maybe a workaround for iCal-sync-probs

[Flemming]

I finaly found the culprit of my faulty iCal-syncing;

indeed it was a defect entry; this entry produced a error in the log  
- remarkably followed by a correct synced entry and after that just  
errors .
I took a look at the .ics.file with Textwrangler and found a entry,  
which was obviously formated in the wrong way. It was so faulty, that  
even  iCal  refused to show it at all.

After deleting this entry manually, the calendar synced just fine.

This was what the synclog said:

8/4/05 08:32:27  MSUI:  iCal: Error writing record with for event  
"Geburtstag Ulli Rehr" starting 19981206T000000.

and this was the faulty entry in the .ics:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19981206
EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:19981206
EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:19981207
EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:19991207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19981207
SUMMARY:Geburtstag Ulli Rehr
UID:A715FF9A-F9A0-11D7-8DCA-000393AC9C54
SEQUENCE:8
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=12;BYMONTHDAY=7;WKST=SU
END:VEVENT

and finaly this is the way, a correct looking entry should be like:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20031207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20031208
SUMMARY:Geburtstag Ulli Rehr
UID:69483168-3A2B-11D8-A8E1-000A95AF9832
SEQUENCE:10
DTSTAMP:20040621T084018Z
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20041206;BYMONTH=12;BYMONTHDAY=7;WKST
=SU
END:VEVENT

Now I would wish - for me and other people stumbling with sync- 
errors, that MS would not stop, aftre running into a error, but  
rather ignore it an report it in the log (the way entries with more  
than 30day-span do).

Or even better - find a way to find and fix these entries...

Hope after all, this could help to enhance the experience with MS.

Flemming