Birthday calendar problem

There is one birthday that I can't get into my iPad's / iPhone's Calendar.app, although it appears on my Mac.
I have already deleted the birthday entry in my Address Book, re-created it: no difference. Weird.
The Birthday calendar is activated and both My Mac's and MobileMe calendars are all activated, of course, as all other birthdays show up correctly on all devices.
Thanks a lot for a good idea!

Peter R. wrote:
There is one birthday that I can't get into my iPad's / iPhone's Calendar.app, although it appears on my Mac.
I have already deleted the birthday entry in my Address Book, re-created it: no difference. Weird.
The Birthday calendar is activated and both My Mac's and MobileMe calendars are all activated, of course, as all other birthdays show up correctly on all devices.
Thanks a lot for a good idea!
Have you manually performed a sync with MobileMe on your Mac? I've found that sometimes entries I make on my iMac aren't immediately synced to MobileMe even though I have it set to sync automatically to my iDevices and at other times they are. I haven't found a pattern yet, but whenever they fail to move to MobileMe from my iMac I perform a manual sync and they appear.

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I can't sync between my iPhone 3G and my Powerbook anymore.
Looking into the log, the problem seems to be coming from a problem with a birthday calendar (please see log at the bottom of this post).
I have a clue, how the problem might have been created:
I installed the "2do" app on the iPhone and synced it successfully many times (vie WLAN). Also, syncing my address book and calendar was no problem. Then suddenly in my iCal a second "Birthday" category popped up. The first one was the subscription from the birthdays in my address book. The (new) second birthday category was identical and duplicated my birthdays in iCal, so I erased one of the two (I don't remember which one).
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I would be happy if someone told me how to erase all calendar, address book and syncing data from my mac and to recall all data from my iPhone if that's a promising strategy...
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The LOG:
29.03.10 11:49:54 [0x0-0x20020].com.apple.iTunes[169] Child process initialized.
29.03.10 11:50:34 iCalExternalSync[176] [ICalExternalSync ]Encountered CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1c105e0 <x-coredata://5BB4AE6D-8862-4D64-8D29-B2EC8DA1F8D4/BirthdayCalendar/p1>' with userInfo {
NSAffectedObjectsErrorKey = (
<CalManagedBirthdayCalendar: 0x2267c00> (entity: BirthdayCalendar; id: 0x1c105e0 <x-coredata://5BB4AE6D-8862-4D64-8D29-B2EC8DA1F8D4/BirthdayCalendar/p1> ; data: <fault>)
29.03.10 11:50:34 iCalExternalSync[176] [ICalExternalSync ]NSException name:NSObjectInaccessibleException reason:CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1c105e0 <x-coredata://5BB4AE6D-8862-4D64-8D29-B2EC8DA1F8D4/BirthdayCalendar/p1>'
29.03.10 11:50:34 [0x0-0x21021].com.apple.iCal[174] 2010-03-29 11:50:34.685 iCalExternalSync[176:10b] [ICalExternalSync ]Encountered CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1c105e0 <x-coredata://5BB4AE6D-8862-4D64-8D29-B2EC8DA1F8D4/BirthdayCalendar/p1>' with userInfo {
29.03.10 11:50:34 [0x0-0x21021].com.apple.iCal[174] NSAffectedObjectsErrorKey = (
29.03.10 11:50:34 [0x0-0x21021].com.apple.iCal[174] <CalManagedBirthdayCalendar: 0x2267c00> (entity: BirthdayCalendar; id: 0x1c105e0 <x-coredata://5BB4AE6D-8862-4D64-8D29-B2EC8DA1F8D4/BirthdayCalendar/p1> ; data: <fault>)
29.03.10 11:50:34 [0x0-0x21021].com.apple.iCal[174] );
29.03.10 11:50:34 [0x0-0x21021].com.apple.iCal[174] }
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When I turn on the Birthdays calendar in the iCal preferences everything displays fine in iCal. However, when I export the calendar (for syncing to a mobile device) the apostrophe character in the event title (First Lastname's Birthday) is converted to ‚Äô.
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VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:Birthdays
PRODID:-//Apple Computer\, Inc//iCal 2.0//EN
X-WR-RELCALID:5379AD1C-B8DA-4514-BD2B-1C274CC94E6D
X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Eastern
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METHOD:PUBLISH
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SUMMARY:Joe Smith‚Äôs Birthday
UID:9B71A63B-0B3C-4EAB-B4C2-D454364B0315
URL;VALUE=URI:addressbook://7E515AB7-BF3C-45FC-A2B4-6A667A578A37:ABPerson
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
X-WR-ABUID:7E515AB7-BF3C-45FC-A2B4-6A667A578A37:ABPerson
DURATION:P1D
END:VEVENT
Message was edited by: COHagan

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I have the STRANGEST things happening with birthdays on both my iPhone (5, 32GB, white, iOS 6) and iPad (32GB, iOS 6, white).
I'm posting it here in the iPhone forum, assuming more people may be able to help.
First of all, I sync a Google Apps calendar with my iPhone and iPad via CalDAV. I also sync my Google Contacts with my address book (including birthdays), which syncs via my MacBook on OS 10.6.8 using the sync icon in the system tray. (I hesitate to call it MobileMe, even though that's what the System Preferences calls it, because it really has nothing to do with MobileMe -- it does not sync via MobileMe [I do not have an account], it just syncs my Address Book with Google with my phone or iPad when hooked up. It is through a WIRED connection that it does the final sync to the device.)
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Searching the internet for someone with a similar problem. NADA.
Turning off the option to sync my Google birthday calendar via the Google sync page (I think it's actually unnecessary anyway, since iOS pulls from the contact book, anyway). That did nothing.
Hiding all calendars and then selecting them to show one at a time to figure out which calendar was causing the problem, but as I mentioned above, it is not consistent.
Re-syncing my devices with iTunes.
Searching for and merging duplicate contacts in Google contacts.
Turning off the iOS birthday calendar.
Killing and re-starting the calendar app.
Re-starting my iOS devices.
Re-syncing my contact book with my devices.
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I figured it out! (Or at least, it's been fixed for a day on both my iPad and iPhone.)
By the way, I discovered more oddities, but I'm not going to even bother with describing them.)
I am assuming everyone here has been syncing their birthday calendar off of Google/Gmail (whether CalDAV or Exchange, it doesn't matter).
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A) Tgara was on to something: syncing the Google birthday calendar in your Google sync settings -- even though it does not show up in your calendar list on the iphone/ipad -- is the culprit.
B) BUT, simply un-syncing will not make them go away unless you completely un-sync all your Google calendars. Once the repetitions get into your phone/iPad via they are kind of "stuck" there, and you've got to go back to the beginning to un-stick them for good.
C) Thus, it may require some trial and error because I had to repeat this a couple times. I may no have the right order of operations, but this is my best recreation/guess.
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1) I'm debating whether you have to do this step (I think I did it on my iPhone, but not my iPad, and yet both worked), but it doesn't take long, so you could just to be safe: on your iOS device, Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars -- delete your Google calendar account.
2) On your iOS device, go to the proper Google sync page to choose what calendars are available for syncing.
For Exchange, go to: https://m.google.com/sync/settings/iconfig/device
For CalDAV and Gmail/normal sync, go to: https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/iphoneselect
For Google Apps CalDAV (although it worked for me on the normal page above), go to: https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/yourhosteddomain.com/iphoneselect
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5) Once the repetitions are gone, go to your iOS settings and add the calendar account back in if you removed it in step one.
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7) Once they are gone, go back to the Google sync page(s) and add all the calendars you want back, BUT DO NOT SELECT YOUR BIRTHDAY CALENDAR. Save/apply.
8) Go to the calendar app. Open up the calendar list. Wait for it to refresh. Now you should be able to turn on all your calendars you wish to see, wait for it to propagate, and confirm there are no copies. If there are copies, repeat all the steps!
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