N97 iCal iSync Duplicating events

Hello All,
1st post for me on here! I have had a look on the both iSync & iCal discussions but couldn't find an answer to help me so i'll post my question, small problem so hope someone can answer.
I got my iCal & address book on my Mac all nice & tidy then sync'd it to my N97 (which was new so nothing on it). After the Sync, my contacts & calendar on my N97 were looking great, the following day when I sync'd again to update a few new contacts the calendar on my N97 & the iCal on the Mac have duplicated every event! I can see all the original events but the duplicates are all there in one colour no matter what they represent (i.e. birthdays, work, etc). Is there a straight forward way in removing the duplicates & stop it from happening again?
I've tried a 3rd party app but it couldn't see the duplicates!
Many thanks for any help.

Hi,
I have just had a similar problem. I am not sure if it applies to you but hey here we go...
Basically i have 5 tabs on my ical calender i.e red, blue, green etc for three different buildings i manage. Now heres the crucial bit, when isync adds to the phone for the first time it only puts the events on the phone in one colour ( in my case the blue tab) so when you sync for the second time the ical calender sees all these blue events and thinks they are new events and duplicates! once you have removed the duplicates the problem should resolve...
Cheers. Hope this has helped.
Laurence

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