Force Sync Entourage and iCal

Hi..Help...

I had sync services working fine the other day, where Entourage and
iCal were in sync with fairly instant updating from either side. For
some reason, it stopped happening. I turned off Sync Services for
Calendar in Entourage prefs, deleted the "Entourage" calendar from
iCal, and restarted Sync Services for Calendar in Entourage prefs. I
checked Entourage updates Sync Services, closed prefs and
then...nothing. My iCal doesn't seem to update with a new "Entourage"
calendar. What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to force
synchronization manually? There doesn't seem to be much way for user
intervention to happen. Can someone explain what the sync schedule is
between Entourage and "The Truth"?

Paul

Andy
Thu Mar 30 18:26:15 CST 2006

Have you tried creating events in either iCal and Entourage and seeing if
that kicks-off the sync process?

-Andy

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On 3/30/06 4:09 PM, in article
1143763770.737444.222370@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Paul G"
<paul.golden@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi..Help...
>
> I had sync services working fine the other day, where Entourage and
> iCal were in sync with fairly instant updating from either side. For
> some reason, it stopped happening. I turned off Sync Services for
> Calendar in Entourage prefs, deleted the "Entourage" calendar from
> iCal, and restarted Sync Services for Calendar in Entourage prefs. I
> checked Entourage updates Sync Services, closed prefs and
> then...nothing. My iCal doesn't seem to update with a new "Entourage"
> calendar. What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to force
> synchronization manually? There doesn't seem to be much way for user
> intervention to happen. Can someone explain what the sync schedule is
> between Entourage and "The Truth"?
>
> Paul
>

Paul
Thu Mar 30 19:21:53 CST 2006

I'll give it a shot. Do I have to create an "Entourage" calendar
manually in iCal or should that just happen automatically? Also, what
is it that kicks off the sync process? Is there no surefire way?

babycheeses
Thu Mar 30 21:07:14 CST 2006

FWIW, I've had my Entourage -> iCal sync do the same thing. Worked
initially, then stopped after I quit iCal. I also developed the problem
where the calendar list disappears from the upper left corner pane.
Tried blowing away the iCal Entourage calendar (after first turning off
sync in Entourage), then turning on sync again. Again it worked
initially, then stopped sync'ing. Something is definitely not right
with this feature.

Paul G wrote:
> I'll give it a shot. Do I have to create an "Entourage" calendar
> manually in iCal or should that just happen automatically? Also, what
> is it that kicks off the sync process? Is there no surefire way?

Andy
Fri Mar 31 08:29:40 CST 2006

There's a discussion on MacFixIt about disappearing iCal calendars (
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060207074628694 ). It does not
appear to be limited to Entourage's syncing--just more prevelant.

Syncs are supposed to happen automatically as iCal or Entourage notify Sync
Services of changes. If it appears that syncs aren't occuring, there's a
breakdown somewhere between the apps and Sync Services. Your best bet is to
make modifications and trigger new notificaions to Sync Services from either
iCal or Entourage.

-Andy

--
Andy Ruff
MacBU Program Management
Entourage Weblog: http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/

This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

On 3/30/06 7:07 PM, in article
1143774434.182931.260610@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com,
"babycheeses@gmail.com" <babycheeses@gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I've had my Entourage -> iCal sync do the same thing. Worked
> initially, then stopped after I quit iCal. I also developed the problem
> where the calendar list disappears from the upper left corner pane.
> Tried blowing away the iCal Entourage calendar (after first turning off
> sync in Entourage), then turning on sync again. Again it worked
> initially, then stopped sync'ing. Something is definitely not right
> with this feature.
>
> Paul G wrote:
>> I'll give it a shot. Do I have to create an "Entourage" calendar
>> manually in iCal or should that just happen automatically? Also, what
>> is it that kicks off the sync process? Is there no surefire way?
>

Paul
Fri Mar 31 11:22:00 CST 2006

I tried what was suggested in the MacFixit article, and it seems to have
worked. We'll see if it holds for a while...

Thanks for the tip.

Paul

On 3/31/06 6:29 AM, in article C0527CD4.2D23%aruff@online.microsoft.com,
"Andy Ruff" <aruff@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

> There's a discussion on MacFixIt about disappearing iCal calendars (
> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060207074628694 ). It does not
> appear to be limited to Entourage's syncing--just more prevelant.
>
> Syncs are supposed to happen automatically as iCal or Entourage notify Sync
> Services of changes. If it appears that syncs aren't occuring, there's a
> breakdown somewhere between the apps and Sync Services. Your best bet is to
> make modifications and trigger new notificaions to Sync Services from either
> iCal or Entourage.
>
> -Andy

Scott
Thu May 11 12:24:31 CDT 2006

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Well, technically, according to the ³Basics of Sync Services² article on the
Entourage MVP site, Entourage has nothing to do with iCal ? iCal is just an
application that uses Sync Services. Unfortunately, iCal seems to be the
only way ³window² into Sync Services data. For example, I noticed that the
iCal Entourage calendar stopped syncing; however, data was still being
synced to my Treo. (Another oddity: iCal seems to launch itself without
warning, and then hangs.) Until more OS X apps make use of Sync Services
directly, many of us will have to live with iCal and Address Book.

Is there a way to view the master Sync database to confirm validity?

On 03-31-06 10:22, in article C052A538.1C825%paul.golden@ffake.com, "Paul
Golden" <paul.golden@ffake.com> wrote:

> I tried what was suggested in the MacFixit article, and it seems to have
> worked. We'll see if it holds for a while...
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/31/06 6:29 AM, in article C0527CD4.2D23%aruff@online.microsoft.com,
> "Andy Ruff" <aruff@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> > There's a discussion on MacFixIt about disappearing iCal calendars (
>> > http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060207074628694 ). It does not
>> > appear to be limited to Entourage's syncing--just more prevelant.
>> >
>> > Syncs are supposed to happen automatically as iCal or Entourage notify Sync
>> > Services of changes. If it appears that syncs aren't occuring, there's a
>> > breakdown somewhere between the apps and Sync Services. Your best bet is
>> to
>> > make modifications and trigger new notificaions to Sync Services from
>> either
>> > iCal or Entourage.
>> >
>> > -Andy
>
>

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Is there a way to view the master Sync database to confirm validity? 
 
 
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