Outlook Calendar events duplicating in MPE

Gast

Hi, have to say MPE is great. SE's desktop manager didn't even installed in my PC. MPE ran smoothly until it started duplicating some of my events from Outlook 2003.

I think it started happening after MPE crashed (took the phone away while syncing and I had to force end it).

Now when I sync, all recurrent events from Outlook are duplicated into MPE and my W610i.

I've tried deleting all events in MPE and W610i and force Outlook into both and no change, recurrent events keep on duplicating.

Any suggestions bar manually deleting the duplicate ones?

Verfasst am: So Jul 01, 2007 17:34

Start MyPhoneExplorer with the parameter 'debug' and send me the logfile after the sync.

Verfasst am: So Jul 01, 2007 21:04

I have read your logfile

The option "Fast Sync" is only recommened for big Exchnage-Calendars. If the normal sync doesn't take too long the please let it deactivated cause its more stable.

Maybe be it works also if you deactivate the "fast sync" only for the next sync.

Gast

Sorry but it didn't seem to work. I've sent you a new log file via email. Hopefully you can find something there.

Thanks.

Verfasst am: Mo Jul 02, 2007 22:31

Hmm - thanks for the file, but it doesn't showed me strange things. Makes it a diffrence if Outlook is already running in background or not ?

Gast

No it doesn't. I always run it with Outlook on (is the first thing I load in the morning).

I tried it with Outlook off and first it gave an error message (something about my OST file being in use by another application) and at the same time Outlook asked to allow access to MPE. I agreed and sync into an empty phone and same thing happened, all recurrent appointments without an ending date (like birthdays) were duplicated.

Time to attempt a reinstall?

Gast

FWIW, I uninstalled MPE completely (deleting all personal information from PC), install again and sync into a clean phone and MPE and same thing happened: all recurrent events without an ending date were duplicated.

Verfasst am: Mi Jul 04, 2007 12:29

Hmm - its hard to find the error. Does it also happen on new added Outlook-Events or only for the already existing events ?

Gast

Good guess! It happens only with existing events. I created a new one and MPE doesn't duplicate it.

And I think it has nothing to do with no ending date as I said before, tested by adding one to an existing event and it still duplicates.

Anmeldedatum: 19.01.2011 Beiträge: 2

I got event duplicates on my calendar too, this happens when you delete all calendar on the phones and try to re-sync from fresh.

What you can do, go to the database:
C:\Documents and Settings\<your_user_name>\Application Data\MyPhoneExplorer\<your_phone_profile>

and delete "Organizer.dat". After that, start fresh.

Anmeldedatum: 31.01.2011 Beiträge: 4

I am having the same issue. Deleting the Organizer.dat did not fix it.

I noticed that events within the 30 days and 90 days were what was duplicating. All other events seemed ok. Very strange.

I ended up change MPE so that it sync'd all events instead of "30 days before today" and "90 days after today". The seems to have fixed it, at least as a work around.

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Jerry

Anmeldedatum: 07.01.2011 Beiträge: 24

What's the recommended way to delete all appointments in my phone and MPE and have the appointments from Outlook re-populate these calendars again? Do I also have to remove all appointments from Google Calendar?

I can't get MPE to sync my calendars without giving me loads of "insert" and "delete" warnings, even though calendar entries in both Outlook and my phone are identical.

HT Desire
MPE 1.8
XP SP3
Outlook 2007

Anmeldedatum: 31.01.2011 Beiträge: 4

rjrcooper hat Folgendes geschrieben:

What's the recommended way to delete all appointments in my phone and MPE and have the appointments from Outlook re-populate these calendars again? Do I also have to remove all appointments from Google Calendar?

I can't get MPE to sync my calendars without giving me loads of "insert" and "delete" warnings, even though calendar entries in both Outlook and my phone are identical.

HT Desire
MPE 1.8
XP SP3
Outlook 2007

I manually cleaned out my Outlook calendar by changing the view to category and deleting the duplicates. Note you can hold the ctrl key and select multiple items.

Then I did a MPE sync and told the sync to force outlook->phone.

Then I manual deleted them from gmail. Now, I only had about 15 items... it there were a ton, I am not sure how I would have gotten them out of gmail.

I wounder the sync between the three (Outlook, Phone, and Gmail) is what caused the duplicates. I setup the google calendar sync app on my PC, so it would sync Outlook to Gmail.

So, my phone sync'd with gmail, and got the holiday calendar. Then my phone sync'd with outlook (a clean calendar, I deleted all items), and then Outlook sync'd to gmail.... hmm.

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Jerry

Anmeldedatum: 07.01.2011 Beiträge: 24

I copied my Outlook calendar to another calendar and removed all calendar entries from my phone and did another sync and guess what... all my appointments appeared in MPE again! WTF??

So on my phone I went into Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, All tab, Calendar storage and hit "Clear data".

This did the trick. For a while. I moved my backed-up Outlook calendar entries back to my main calendar and re-synced. Everything worked.

However, I have edited a few entries in Outlook since then and once again, strange behaviour is occurring.

I delete birthdays that are a day out (another problem I've seen reported) in Outlook and sync. I tell MPE to remove them from my phone. The entries are no longer in my phone calendar or Outlook. However, when I sync again, they miraculously re-appear and I am prompted whether I want to insert them into the Outlook calendar.

I would really like to use MPE as my main calendar sync tool but it seems there are many problems with it that mean I spend more time trying to sort out problems than should be necessary.

So far, I have encountered three problems more than once:
- Birthdays appearing a day early
- Appointments miraculously re-appearing even though I've deleted them in Outlook and my phone
- Forcing Outlook on to phone causes all appointments to be created on my (empty) phone then, without changing anything, prompts me to delete them all again on the next sync! It thinks that Outlook is empty when it's not.

Unless these bugs are fixed, this is useless as a calendar sync tool for Android.

Anmeldedatum: 07.01.2011 Beiträge: 24

Here are the steps I took to populate all Outlook events to my phone and Google Calendar:
1. Back up Outlook calendar
2. Delete all calendar data on my phone from within Settings-->Applications (see previous post). This results in the Calendar app on my phone having NO calendars.
3. Delete all entries in my Google Calendar
4. Download entries from phone to MPE to remove everything in MPE
5. Sync using Force Outlook -> phone setting
This created appointments in my phone under a calendar called "PC Sync"
6. Sync again without doing anything.

This prompts me to remove all 145 entries that were just created using the previous sync despite there being no changes whatsoever to any part of this chain (Outlook, MPE, device, Google Calendar).

I tried removing Organizer.dat from C:\Documents and Settings\[myname]\Application Data\MyPhoneExplorer\[myDevice] in place of step 4 and it worked fine!

This looks like a bug in how MPE manages the Organizer.dat file but it's probably compounded by the way the HTC Desire manages Calendar data.

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