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

[Russell Baldwin]

Just out of curiosity Richard, do you use .Mac sync? I think I had  
the same problem. When I had a look through my iCal there were  
multiple appointments for certain events (and I mean lots) at  
different times - like one hour ahead or previous. I have 'the use  
timezone' set in my iCal (London/Europe). Some of these seemed to  
come from .Mac?

Anyway, I turned of .Mac sync for iCal and Address. I then got rid of  
all the duplicates in iCal and on the PDA ( a laborious process at  
best,) and it now syncs without error. Well at least for the time  
being. I've had this before but didn't make the possible connection  
with .Mac Sync. In any event I will try it without for the time being  
a see how it goes. it could be a red herring though :)

Incidentally I've also had spurious addresses appearing in my address  
book (e.g. not mine) when I've been using .Mac Sync???

It might also be an idea to have the option to only sync the past  
four weeks of appointments and all future appointment aka MS  
ActiveSync? Also the sync of files via the mounted folder is both  
slow (USB 1.0 I guess) and fails on anything over about 0.5MB. Either  
to card or to memory. I have a call logged for this I wonder if this  
will help jog your memory.

Russ

On 3 Oct 2005, at 23:26, Richard Peat wrote:

> 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.
> n
> 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
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