App integration with Contacts and Calendars ending?

I've been following the discussions in the Bento and the Omni Group (re: OmniFocus) forums about developer decisions to drop certain features that involve integration into the Apple databases like Contacts due to changes in how Apple identifies records as a result of iCloud. Also, it seems that the application programming interface that Apple provides for Address Book, iCal, and iPhoto are no longer being supported and are scheduled to be removed (info provided by Bento tech support).
Does anyone here have more detailed or definitive info about this?

It seems that these apps are using the CalendarStore framework, which has been deprecated. And maybe other frameworks, too. There is a replacement for CalendarStore which is called EventKit. App developers now need to update their apps to use this new framework (it was only introduced with Mountain Lion). This is work, and apparently will take some time.
In Mountain Lion, the old CalendarStore framework is still present, so any existing apps should still work (fingers crossed). Chances are however, that it might disappear in 10.9, or a later release. Any apps using it need to be updated before that.

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Hi everyone,
My wife and I have both apple IDs that we used with MobileMe. I can access mail, contacts, calendar etc on icloud.com after transfering from mobileme, but my wife only sees email. No contacts or Calendar there. She has all in her iPod Touch under her ID, and we have them all in both our Macbook Pro and iMac.
Any idea how/why the contacts and calendar does not show up on hers? We share all data, so I have no idea why one would have them while the other doesn't. Maybe because I was the first one to sign up for mobileme? I don't know.
I searched the forum but couldn't find anyone with the same issue... many with apple IDs, but nothing like this.
Thanks for your help!
David

Hi David,
I am experiencing something similar... I moved mobileme to icloud, after completion I thought everything was ok, but now after one hour all my contacts have disappeard... trying to look what's going on

Syncing iCloud with contacts and calendar in MS Outlook 2007, will get message that "the set of folders cannot be opened. The information store could not be opened."

I install the iCloud Control Panel and information is uploaded from my Outlook Contact folder to iCloud. ICloud folders are created and syncing process between my iPhone, iCloud, and Outlook works for a while (day or 2). Then, when I open Outlook after a day of 2, I get the above message that "The set of folders cannot be opened. The information store could not be opened." The only resolve that I have found is to uninstall the iCloud Control Panel, the reboot my Windows computer, then reinstall the iCloud Control Panel and resync contacts and calendar to icloud. This is getting to be very cumbersome to use this feature. What is the cause of the problem that it keeps on disconnecting to iCloud?

I have also fixed it by uninstalling and then reinstalling iCloud, but as you have experienced, the problem recurs without reason. Apple would/could not help as they say that the problem is with Microsoft's Outlook and that I should talk to them. Microsoft's techies won't help without me paying some £200 as I have a Professional - a student's - version of Office 2007. This is scandalous. It is obvious, from the many who have reported the same problem n this forum, that Microsoft should look into this urgently and create a fix

HT1386 Windows 8 Syncing Problem with Contacts and Calendars Office 2007 and iphone 4

I have a new Dell Inspiron 17R and just did a sync with my iphone 4. It wiped out my contact and calendar listing. I have selected the contacts and calenders sync option. It is almost like the sync process can not fine the pst file on this new Windows 8 computer.

For this particular issue, as suggested by yellowadept, go the the info tab at under the advanced section, choose replace contact information on iphone. This will over write any contact information on the iphone with what you have in address book on the computer.
However, if you are interested in what part of the 111 contacts will be changed, you could open address book first. Then highlight all your contacts and click on file>export>as vcard. Then you could back up all your contacts to your desktop. After you export all your contacts then you could sync the iphone and allow the changes to see what changes were made. If the iphone actually changed anything, then you could delete all your contacts in address book, then import the vcards back in.
Also, keeping a back-up of your contacts and calendars is a pretty good idea.
Hope this helps.

HT4759 Apple Engineering has been unable to solve "Error 0x80040604". It has been 9 calendar days. I cannot sync with Outlook with contacts and calendar. I see where others are having same problem. Is there a solution?

Has any of the Error 0x80040604 problems been solved? The onlt response I get is"Apple Engineers are working on it" I am dealing with a Senior Tech. Should I go to someone higher?
The sync with Outlook contacts abd Calendar was working well for 6 months. I have iphone4 and mini ipad connected to the iCloud.. My " bandaid "is to only use the iphone 4 for contacts and calendar events.
Is their another Cloud I can use?

I have found a solution to this problem.
FYI - Blackberry cannot sync to Outlook if Outlook is in "Click to Run" mode. Follow the link below for instructions on how to install a full version of Office 2010.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/click-to-run-switch-to-using-a-full-office-edition-HA10...

Reinstalled icloud control panel for pc and lost contact with contacts and calendar

I downloaded OS5 for my iphone and the new upgrade for my macbook air. Things worked great yesterday with everything pointing to Icloud. I could not open Outlook 2010 this morning. I uninstalled iCloud Control Panel. I got Outlook to open, but it cannot see iCloud and all contacts and calendars are gone and I have no icloud file to point to. How do I reistablish the link?

It stopped working, most probably after the last update of 31st December 2012. I'm not sure though. First time sync works both ways. Calendar items from both iCloud and Outlook appeard in both sides after the first, manual, sync.
All updates from Windows and MS Office are installed (that can also messed everything up btw)

HT1349 Can I log onto my mothers account to help her with contacts and calendars without pushing all of my info

Can I put contacts and calendar notes in for my mother, and push/sync those without sending all of my info to her?

Settings app > Mail, Contact,Calendars > delete her account, than add yours back in. Removing the account from your phone will not effect the iCloud stored contents. Her phone's contact list should be fine.

Outlook 2013 problems with Contacts and Calendar

I downloaded 2013 and now when I sync my iPhone 5 I can't see my old Calendar or Contacts....I now have a new empty calendar named Calendar (on this computer) and Contacts are named Contacts (on this computer) and are empty as well...How do I copy over the info that was on 2007 office currently on my computer?...It shows as an additional calendar but wo'tr sync to the iphone, same with contacts...
Thanks...

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Refer to this discussion please:
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Can I recover missing notes? I use yahoo mail and the "Notes" app within mail, contacts and calendars is set to ON.

Hi. I have lost several pages of notes in the iPad notes application on the iPad2. I have read that there may be a way to recover them via an email account, but the posts reference Gmail. My email account is Yahoo. Has anyone successfully recovered mysteriously disappearing notes on the iPad 2 via Yahoo mail? Thanks in advance.

You should be able to recover notes from a backup, if you backup the iPad, but try this first and see if the notes reappear.
Quit the Notes app completely and reboot the iPad. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the recents tray will appear with all of your recent apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

I cannot synchronise IPod with contacts and calendars since I updated with iOS. 5.1.1.

Depuis que j'ai fait une mise à jour avec iOS5.1.1 je ne peux plus synchroniser mes contacts et mon calendrier avec mon ordinateur.
Est-ce quelqu'un connaîtrait le moyen de régler ce problème?

Try the standard fixes to rule out a software problem:
- Reset. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory defaults/new iPod.
If you still have the problem that points to a hardware problem. Yu can make an appointment at the the Genius Bar of an Apple store or try:
fix for Home button

Contacts and Calendar not syncing

I know everyone is having issues with calendar and outlook but I am having an issue with contacts and calendar. Anyone else having an issue with both.

I sync'd my iphone and lost all my contacts, in the phone and in my address book on my mac. You are not the only one.
Hopefully someone can help to get my information back.

Sync Duplication of Contacts and Calendars

Hi all,
I am having duplication issues with Contacts and Calendars. I tried getting iPhone (via iTunes), iCal and Google Calendar to sync up but strange anomalies took hold such as conflicting dates. So I bought Spanning Sync. This promised to eradicate and "robust up" my syncing. Now the problem is that all of my contacts on the iPhone appear twice many of my calendar entries appear twice too. Very annoying. I'm predicting responses like "3rd party software makes it hard to diagnose", but I did try with Mac and Google on their own but they wouldn't work.
I have since checked and unchecked all the boxes in iTunes (related to iPhone syncing) and re-synced but to no avail.
Hoping someone has experience of something similar and a solution!
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Ben
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I just looked a little further in the forums and found this thread. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2048666&tstart=15
Following the instructions in about the third post down cleared up my duplicate contacts.
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Difference between Accounts in Address Book and iCal vs Mail, Contacts and Calendars Accounts?

Trying to wrap my head around iCloud's capabilites right now.
In System Prefs, there is the Mail, Contacts and Calendars setting. In there, I can set up syncing with contacts and calendars via a Google account there. However, when I open up iCal (aka calendars) and Address Book (aka contacts), they ALSO have their own seemingly independent syncing options.
I'd ideally like to keep a copy of my contacts and calendars synced through Google and iCloud.
What is the optimal way to do this?
Thanks in advance...

A) Contacts)
1. Open www.icloud.com
2. Open Contacts
3. Mark All Contacts > CMD + A
4. Click on the small icon in the lower left corner
5. Choose Export vCard...
6. Open your "Address Book" on your Mac and choose "File > Import"
B) Calendar)
At the moment there is no option to download/export all the data, but you could share the calendar back to your Mac by opening the www.icloud.com website, then...
2. Open Calendar
3. Click the samll "Share" button behind the name of every calendar and share it with your account.
or
Add your wife's account just temporary on your Mac (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account), then
2. Open "Calendar" on your Mac
3. Wait until it finished synchronizing all the of her events
3. Mark the Calendar by clicking on the name of your wife's calendar
4. Open the menu "File > Export" + safe the file on your desktop
5. Delete your wife's account again in Settings
6. Open the calendar again
7. Open the menu "File > Import" + choose the file from your desktop
8. Choose your preferred calendar

Contacts and calendar wont sync on iphone 4

I can no longer sync calendars and contacts on my iphone 4. Running the latest iTunes and iPhone software. Running all the latest Snow Leopard updates.
It used to work - not sure what caused it to break. I have spent hours trouble shooting, viewing forums, google searches etc.
I have recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard roughly about the same time the issue started to exist - not exactly sure when it first started to appear, so don't really know if it is the upgrade that caused it or not.
When syncing, it freezes when trying to synch contacts. If I turn off Contacts synching, then it freeze while trying to sync calendars. If I turn off both Contact and Calendar Sync, the rest of the phone syncs fine. Only occurs with Contacts and Calendars.
I have tried following the steps from this document: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2481
Basically exporting contacts, deleting them and reimporting them. This did not solve the problem.
I have tried whipping the iphone clean and restoring from backup - this did not solve the problem.
I have tried whipping the iphone and creating a new iphone account and synching was still an issue.
I don't know what else I can do to solve this issue.
Please help.

Hi, could you specify what you did. It appears that nothing on my iPhone syncs any more. I have an iMac and iPhone 4 running the latest system updates. Thanks!

Google contacts and calendar events entered on my iPhone 5s are not syncing with my google account.

Newly entered contacts and calendar events entered on my IPhone 5s are not syncing to google.
Facts that may be pertinent:
- I switched from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5s and did the easy option of having it automatically set up like my previous phone, so I did not change any part of the setup. It is possible that it stopped syncing at that time, based on which contacts have synced and which haven't.
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- In the Contacts app under Groups I have only GMAIL checked.
I've read that Google recommends CardDAV, which I gather is not the same as Exchange?
I'm afraid to delete anything and start over, for fear of losing my contacts.
Is there a difference between the gmail account I set up and what the Contacts app calls GMAIL?
If there is anything I should communicate about how things are set up on the Google end, let me know.
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Hello Marsden,
Try this...
Go to the isync program on your Mac.
Go to Preferences in the main menu
Hit Reset Sync History
I'm pretty sure this is how I fixed it... so far so good.
Let me know if that works for you!

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