[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Beta 5 - Better, but still problems

[Richard Peat]

I've given Beta 5 a pretty good run round tonight. The calendar sync  
is better, but still not right.

Firstly I just let the PDA and Mac sync without clearing down the PDA  
first. As both the Mac and the PDA had almost the same appointments,  
both generated from the old version of Missing Sync, it seemed fairly  
straightforward. At first glance this appeared to work OK, certainly  
from the PDA end, however when I went into iCal I found that every  
single appointment in iCal had been moved into my default calendar,  
from all of the different calendars I had used.

After this I rolled back iCal to my backup, and moved on to try  
rebuilding the calendar from scratch on the PDA by resetting the  
relationship using the MSSync Utility.

Basically I've been unable to get a clean rebuild using this method  
at all, consistently the rebuild fails with a 'Bad Record' error.  
I've deleted these as they came up until it produced the error on a  
record in a subscribed calendar, at which point I'm stuck.

10/3/05 22:58:12  MSUI:  iCal: setStatusString string=Writing Events  
record 352 to device
10/3/05 22:58:12  MSUI:  iCal: Error writing record for event "CW  
Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 and 1978" starting 20050603T000000.
10/3/05 22:58:12  MSUI:  iCal: RAPI error: 32 last error: 1
10/3/05 22:58:13  MSUI:  iCal: setStatusString string=Cleaning up
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: ISyncSessionCancelledException Session  
<ISyncConcreteSession: 0x381810> cancelled. Session cancelled by client
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: completePIMUpload called.
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: Unlocked Calendar
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: Unlocked Tasks
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: Unlocked com.markspace.syncservices
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: setBusy 0
10/3/05 22:58:15  MSUI:  iCal: setStatusString string=Bad record.  
Call support.

The above is the most recent failure - all the rest fail with exactly  
the same series of errors, just a different event. There seems to be  
nothing in common between the particular records that fail. What is  
particularly annoying is that once it gets one of these Missing Sync  
just pulls the plug, and doesn't move on.

It is worth bearing in mind that all of the events that fail have  
previously been transferred from Mac to PDA using Missing Sync V1,  
aside from having taken the calendars from MacOS 10.3.9 to 10.4 I  
haven't done anything to the events that are failing.

Regards,

Richard