Ical + mobileme seems to prevent entourage sync

since i have upgraded to mobileme, i notice that my ical has all but stopped syncing with entourage. i don't know what the matter is but it won't sync with entourage anymore or if it does it's really slow (can take hours for a change or a new entry to make it across). that seems to be since i 'upgraded'' to mobileme. has anyone had the same problem?
i also have an iphone which syncs to the exchange server which entourage is connected to.
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Having the same problem - iPhone, MobileMe and iCal all OK - Entourage, nada.

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All of my “tasks” (both completed and incomplete) in Entourage and "to dos" iCal have disappeared, apparently during a sync with dot Mac. This problem has happened twice in the past two weeks (the first time I lost all of my Entourage “notes” too, but I haven’t put any back).
The tasks show no problems for a week and then all of a sudden disappear from both Entourage and iCal. My calendar and address book (which I also sync) seem not to be affected. Entourage doesn’t seem to offer a way to sync the calendar without syncing the tasks as well.
Here are my questions:
Why did my tasks disappear?
How do I prevent their disappearance again?
has anyone else experienced this problem?
My Entourage database is fine. I’m running Entourage 11.2.3 (which rencently added a feature "sync services" that allows syncing with .Mac and iCal).

I had the same problem and I got my To Dos to appear when I clicked on the To Dos by Priority column header and checked/unchecked the Hide Items outside Calendar View option. (Doesn't seem to make any difference whether it is checked or unchecked ... it displays all of the items ... at least until restart iCal ... then it is a bit unpredictable.)
I also have intermittent problems when I create or change a new Event. Sometimes the change does not appear until I move off the page that I am displaying and come back (e.g. move forward a week in week view and then back.)

ICal / MobileMe To Dos & iPhone syncing over mobile networks: Solution!!!

I have been after a solution to use the to do list in iCal on my Mac @ home and the MobileMe Calendar web page while at work & away from home AND have it sync OTA with my iPhone. There hasn't been a solution that I have found for this until now! I have tried Things and OmniFocus, but in my opionion they are both too bloated for my needs. I want a simple todo list with due dates, notes, priorities and URLs, that I can use on desktops as well as mobile. The iCal / MobileMe to do list is perfect for this, but until now there hasn't been a way to keep the same todo list on my iPhone and keep it in sync everywhere.
I now have a solution. Appigo recently launched a beta of their iCal Sync app for OSX. I downloaded & installed this to my Mac at home, and downloaded their iPhone Todo app. Great syncing between iCal and iPhone over my home Wifi network. Then, I thought, what is to stop me using this over the internet when I'm not at home? So I setup a domain with no-ip.org, which allows you to point a domain name at your home DSL router IP address and have it forward traffic to your home computer. Using a DNS solution in this way means you can dynamically update the domain name to change when your router public IP address changes (unless you have a static IP assigned with your ISP). So, anyway, I set this up to point at my router's public IP address, then configured my home router to forward a specific TCP port to my Mac. So when traffic arrives at the router from the internet destined for this specific port, the router forwards it to the Mac. I configured the Appigo iCal sync app to listen on a static port (the same one I configured on the router) and ensured both my Mac and router firewalls were set to permit this traffic.
So now, with MobileMe set to sync automatically, I can add/edit/delete a todo on my iPhone when I'm away from my home wifi network and it instantly syncs with iCal on my Mac at home, then that gets propogated almost instantly to MobileMe. Also it means a change to the todo list on my Mac or on the MobileMe Calendar web page will also almost instantly get propgated to my iPhone (next timne the Todo app syncs).
Brilliant! The perfect solution for me, and only costing the price of the Appigo todo iPhone app!
If anyone would like more detail on how this was all done, let me know and I can go into more detail.
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Thanks for the excellent information on Appigo ToDo and Sync. This is great way to fulfill the unexplainable absence of this feature from Apple's own application suite (MobileMe, iCal, To Do items).
I downloaded Sync and the iPhone app. Configuration was a snap. I'm still working from a trial membership of MobileMe...with this feature working I'm just about ready to pony up and get a full membership.

Ical entourage sync

I recently upgrade my operating system to Mac OS X 10.6.1. Since this upgrade I can't sync my entourage calendar with my ical and my IPhone. I have tried the following with no success: unchecking the sync feature in all the apps, Rebuilding the entourage database, importing the events from entourage into ical.
Any thoughts on what is happening?

Hi:
I'd like to sync Entourage with iCal also BUT I want iCal as the primary calendar.
I'd like to see ALL the data on my iCal synced onto Entourage.
I have iPhone, iMac, and Macbook; all with mobile Me running.
The iCals are all up to speed but Entourage calendar only has the few events from iCal that are from the entourage sub calendar.
Any help?
Thanks,
Joe

Entourage Sync with iCal & Address Book - Fixed!

Finally found a solution that really works.
Background
I had the infamous issue of trying to get Entourage Calendar and Contacts to Sync with iCal & Address book for the purpose of syncing with iTunes on my iPhone.
I've had most of the symptoms listed on this site.
It only syncs one way, Entourage Calendar shows up in iCal, but it's blank, Entourage Calendar does not show up at all in iCal, but contacts show up in Address book.
I've read nearly every post about it and tried all the various fixes listed, but none of them worked, or at least not consistently.
My setup:
OS X 10.5.5 MacBook Pro (latest updates)
Entourage 2004 (latest patches)
(If your using Mobile me, log out before you do this)
Here's what you'll need to do:
1. Backup your Main Identity which contains all your entourage info, email, contacts, calendars, etc. (Just in case you goof something up)
It's located in your home user account ~User/youraccount/documents/Microsoft User Data (Backup this whole folder)
If you don't know all your email credentials such as username, password, smtp, pop info, jott it down as it will save you some time later.
2. Launch Entourage and uncheck the Sync Services. Quit Entourage and all Office Apps.
Also you should archive all your entourage data if you want to copy it to the new setup.
Archive the contacts and Calendar Events separately.
3. Launch iCal and manually delete the Entourage Calendar (if present) Quit iCal.
4. Now open your documents folder and locate the folder named Microsoft User Data and rename the folder to Microsoft User Data Original
5. Create a new OS X User from the System Preferences... Accounts
6. Logoff your current user account and login to your new user account.
7. Launch Entourage and enter your email info.
8. Now create a single calendar event.
9. Go to Entourage Preferences, and check the Sync Services. (click OK, etc.)
10. Wait 5 minutes, then launch iCal and you will see the Entourage Calendar with your single event.
You should also see your contact that was created when you setup email in the Address Book.
If this worked you've isolated the syncing problem to a corrupt file in your user account or corrupt data in your entourage account.
You can go back to your original user account and delete all the info from entourage to see if you had corrupt data in entourage, (youd did back it up first, right?) or you can follow the procedures below to move all your stuff over to the new login account.
Now you'll need to migrate your data from your Old login account to your new login account.
(I've tried just moving the new Entourage identity back to the old account, and it didn't always work)
The easiest way to move data between accounts is to login as root.
To enable the root user, Go to Utilities, Directory Utility, and under the edit menu, select enable root user, enter a unique password, later you can disable root login when your all done)
Logout of your new login and login as root with the new password you just created
When it prompts for a username type "root". If you don't have that option click the Other login and then type in root as the username and the new password.
Once your logged in as root, be careful as you can pretty much trash anything without any warnings.
Now Open your original user folder located in ~User/youraccount as well as the new user you just created
(not the root account)
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Desktop
Documents
iTunes
Movies
Music
plus any other info you need.
Log back into your new user account, and run a repair permissions from disk utility.
Launch Entourage and enter a new event and contact. Then wait a few minutes and verify that it made it over to iCal & Address book.
If it did, and it should have, you can then import your entourage archives, do contacts first, then wait a few minutes and verify it shows up in Address Book, then do your Calendar events and verify.
When everything is syncing between entourage and iCal/Address Book you can connect your iPhone and enable syncing.
A few important notes:
-If you have Years worth of Calendar Items in entourage, you will most likely run into problems, so archive your old Events and only restore that which you need.
-You may also need to retrieve old application preferences.
-Once your sure you've got everything, you can delete the Microsoft User Data Original folder that we renamed and put in your Documents Folder.
Hope this helps somebody out.
LJS

Entourage calendar does not sync as you are expecting, with iCal.
Turn your Entourage sync services on (to sync your calendar) and you will notice in iCal a new calendar on the left, called Entourage. Mind has a purple color to it, for example.
Now, in iCal, create a new appointment and assign it TO the Entourage calendar. Now sync, and hey presto it shows up in Entourage.
This is by design, Entourage does not sync ALL of your iCal calendars, it will only sync the Entourage calendar which is created in iCal.
For example, I have Home, Work, Personal and Entourage calendars in iCal - appointments I make with my Home, Work or Personal calendar will not appear in Entourage, period. Only appointments made in iCal using the Entourage calendar will appear in Entourage (after a sync).
Likewise, appointments made IN Entourage Calendar, are sync'd to iCal and are only visible if you show the Entourage calendar in iCal - (it's switched ON by default, but can be switched off by un-ticking the calendar in the left pane of iCal).
Does this make sense?

Ical - deleted events prevent from syncing with missing sync

When I try to sync ical with my windows mobile 5.0 running Motorola Q via Missing Sync, I always encounter an error message that one of my ical-events prevents Missing Sync from an error-free sync.
This message comes up when I start Missing Sync: "iCal is reporting synchronization errors. One or more calendar events may not have synchronized properly from iCal. Errors may prevent this application from completing a successful synchronization."
The Missing Sync Protocoll rerfers to an event which I did already delete. So here's the question: how do I really get rid of a ical event which I have already deleted?

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12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] 2008-02-12 16:07:25.184 iCalExternalSync[749:10b] [ICalExternalSync ]Encountered [ISyncConcreteSession pushChangesFromRecord:withIdentifier:]: you can't change the record's entity name from com.apple.calendars.DisplayAlarm to com.apple.calendars.AudioAlarm in {
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] "com.apple.syncservices.RecordEntityName" = "com.apple.calendars.AudioAlarm";
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] owner = (
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] "Event/p5333"
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] );
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] triggerduration = -300;
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] }
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] 2008-02-12 16:07:25.185 iCalExternalSync[749:10b] [ICalExternalSync ]NSException name:NSInvalidArgumentException reason:[ISyncConcreteSession pushChangesFromRecord:withIdentifier:]: you can't change the record's entity name from com.apple.calendars.DisplayAlarm to com.apple.calendars.AudioAlarm in {
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12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] owner = (
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] "Event/p5333"
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] );
12/02/2008 16:07:25 [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iCal[191] triggerduration = -300;
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ICal/Entourage sync question

Sorry, this might be long. I use Entourage primarily, with a Palm device; my husband uses iCal with a Palm device. I'm trying to figure out a way to get my calendar and his calendar syncing so that we can see each others' appointments.
Here's where i am now: Entourage syncs with iCal. I publish my iCal to www.icalx.com; he subscribes to that calendar (and vice versa.)
My question: I have my Entourage preferences set to have Entourage events override events in Sync Services, rather than merge (I was getting lots of doubled events before I chose this option.) If I download his calendar onto iCal on its own calendar (NOT on the calendar called "Entourage") will it either disappear (b/c Entourage events will override in the sync) or eat up my data in Entourage?
And...does anybody have any easier ways to do this? AppleTalk doesn't work and we got tired of exporting and emailing them to each other every morning to reflect updates. (Man, somebody should write an Apple Script to do that!) And I don't want to pay $99/year for a .Mac account just to do this.
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Entourage only syncs to iCal with the "Entourage" calendar. So, in iCal, you can have several other calendars in addition to the "Entourage" calendar, and Entourage will never touch them.
So, if you download your husband's calendar from icalx, you will not lose it when Entourage syncs w/ iCal.
Also, you will be able to publish your "Entourage" calendar to icalx (via iCal) and he will be able to subscribe to it in iCal no problem.
However, it is going to be more work for you b/c you can't set iCal to subscribe to a calendar and have that same subscribed calendar sync w/ Entourage. Out of the box this option isn't available.
So, as far as free options go, you could:
1) Use iCal for calendaring.
2) Manually drag in the .ics file into Entourage each time.
3) Create an applescript to assist with this (one idea would be create a "husband" category in Entourage, and use an applescript to import the .ics, assigning it the "husband" category. Each time you import a new .ics file the applescript deletes the old items in the "husband" category).
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iCal on my Mac no longer syncs with MobileMe even though it is set to synchronise in the preferences pane. How can I fix this?

Greetings Lou,
You should have received an email in your MobileMe inbox regarding a change in MobileMe calendar (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4037). Calendars no longer sync, they use a different server based system now called CalDAV. This gets rid of the need for syncing as the calendars "live" within MobileMe now.
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Why does my ical on my ipod touch not sync with my ical on my desktop imac ical?
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Ical + mobileme seems to prevent entourage sync

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