On 10/28/10 1:44 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/28/10 12:51 PM, "Julian Vrieslander" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm trying to export my Entourage 12.2.7 calendar to iCal 4.0.3, and then >> set iCal to sync with MobileMe and my iPhone. In iCal, I selected >> >> File > Import > Import from Entourage > > Why aren't you using Sync Services to sync Entourage calendar to iCal? Because I've read anecdotal reports, and heard personal stories from associates, which claim that sync services does not work reliably between Entourage and iCal. Duplicated events that reappear again and again, missing events, corruption, etc. I have a lot of all-day and repeating events, which are apparently associated with these problems. I recall one report which claimed Entourage and iCal use different data models for events, and that certain types of event patterns could not be reliably transferred from one model to the other. I was hoping that I could just do a single import of Entourage calendar data into iCal, maybe followed by a bit of cleanup, and then switch over to iCal and not use Entourage calendar again. In this plan, I would be running sync only from iCal to the cloud (Entourage no longer involved). If Entourage reminders cannot be converted into iCal alarms, that's not a big deal for me. I'll just re-enter the alarms in iCal for future events. More of a worry is the comment from the Apple rep that an iCal calendar imported from Entourage may not reliably sync via MobileMe to iPhone and other Macs. So if the imported calendar cannot be repaired/cleaned, and is likely to cause erroneous results when synced, then I would rather delete it and start a new iCal calendar from scratch. I can keep my Entourage calendar as a read-only archive of old events. -- Julian Vrieslander <[email protected]> -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
