Sync Entourage-iCal misbehaving

I have been happily using Paul Berkowitz's excellent Sync Entourage-
iCal script for some time now. Al of a sudden, strange doings:
Whenever I select "check for deletions" in the dialog at the beginning
of the script, the script ends up erasing hundreds of events from iCal
- purportedly because they have been erased in Entourgae? - and then
restoring them to iCal. The end result is correct, but it's very
unnerving, not to mention highly time-consuming.

I have replicated this several times. Every time I do a first-run
sync (one-way Entourage to iCal), and then I do another one-way sync
immediately (without changing ANYTHING in Entourage or iCal). Any
thoughts? Why does it delete from iCal these "deleted" events, only
to restore them 10 minutes later during the same script operation?

What might be causing this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--
Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Entourage 11.3.3 -- Mac OS "Tiger" 10.4.9
MacBook 13-inch - 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 1 GB RAM
Palm OS 5.4.8 -- Palm Treo 650

Diane
Tue Apr 24 17:43:07 CDT 2007

On 4/24/07 6:03 AM, in article
1177419795.408799.128720@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com, "Ignat Solzhenitsyn"
<isolzh@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been happily using Paul Berkowitz's excellent Sync Entourage-
> iCal script for some time now. Al of a sudden, strange doings:
> Whenever I select "check for deletions" in the dialog at the beginning
> of the script, the script ends up erasing hundreds of events from iCal
> - purportedly because they have been erased in Entourgae? - and then
> restoring them to iCal. The end result is correct, but it's very
> unnerving, not to mention highly time-consuming.
>
> I have replicated this several times. Every time I do a first-run
> sync (one-way Entourage to iCal), and then I do another one-way sync
> immediately (without changing ANYTHING in Entourage or iCal). Any
> thoughts? Why does it delete from iCal these "deleted" events, only
> to restore them 10 minutes later during the same script operation?
>
> What might be causing this?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
You need to contact the author, Paul Berkowitz directly. He is usually very
good about responding to inquiries about his scripts.

It's possible that his scripts are syncing up to the "Truth" so you are
seeing the duplication.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/syncservices/basics.html>

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Kerry
Thu Apr 26 10:59:55 CDT 2007

To be honest, Paul used to respond when I had problems or identified
replicable inconsintencies but he doesn't anymore and hasn't for a
long time. I'm just guessing he's moved on. As an example, when I
identified a bug where priorities in tasks weren't getting properly
replicated he had it fixed in no time. But now, he's no where to be
found. I've stopped using the script as it messes up my data.

Kerry

On Apr 24, 6:43 pm, Diane Ross <d...@nospam.mvps.org.invalid> wrote:
> On 4/24/07 6:03 AM, in article
> 1177419795.408799.128...@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com, "Ignat Solzhenitsyn"
>
>
>
> <iso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been happily using Paul Berkowitz's excellent Sync Entourage-
> > iCal script for some time now. Al of a sudden, strange doings:
> > Whenever I select "check for deletions" in the dialog at the beginning
> > of the script, the script ends up erasing hundreds of events from iCal
> > - purportedly because they have been erased in Entourgae? - and then
> > restoring them to iCal. The end result is correct, but it's very
> > unnerving, not to mention highly time-consuming.
>
> > I have replicated this several times. Every time I do a first-run
> > sync (one-way Entourage to iCal), and then I do another one-way sync
> > immediately (without changing ANYTHING in Entourage or iCal). Any
> > thoughts? Why does it delete from iCal these "deleted" events, only
> > to restore them 10 minutes later during the same script operation?
>
> > What might be causing this?
>
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You need to contact the author, Paul Berkowitz directly. He is usually very
> good about responding to inquiries about his scripts.
>
> It's possible that his scripts are syncing up to the "Truth" so you are
> seeing the duplication.
>
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/syncservices/basics.html>
>
> --
> Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
> Entourage Help Page
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
> One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
> <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>