Sync iCal and entourage

Entourage and iCal have stopped syncing. Old entries are Ok but any new Entourage entries are not showing up on iCal and mobileme.
Any thoughts on how I can resolve this?
Thanks
Phillip

Okay, I've finally gotten my sync to happen, and my calendar info is current. But I needed to enable the "MobleMe" trial to make things happen.
I was finding that the sync between Entourage and iCal wasn't happening any more (and right now, it's a guess that the sync broke after the Snow Leopard update).
When I went into iCal and looked at its prefs, the checkbox in the 'General' tab had a grayed-out option that read "Synchronize iCal with other computers and devices using MobileMe."
In previous versions, this was a selectable option, but it's not selectable now.
I had to enable MobileMe (taking advantage of the 60-day trial), and set up an account. After doing so, the afore-metioned option became selectable, so I clicked the checkbox.
After performing a sync, I found that my calendar items were now available on my iPhone.
I hope that this is just a bug, and not an oversight on Apple's part. There are lots of people like me who don't want or need MobileMe.
Hope this helps!
Tom

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Here's the fix! Go to Entourage and do a file/export and select the radio button "Items to an Entourage archive", then check mark ONLY the "Local Calendar Events" check box. Click the arrow at the bottom left, then check the radio button "Yes, delete items belonging to another project or category". NOTE: All your calendar events are still in iCal, and on your iPhone! Clicke the arrow and go through the process of archiving and deleting events from your Entourage Calendar file - you will settings disappearing from Entourage if you have the calendar open. Do a sync! After this sync check to see if you have two Entourage Calendars in iCal (I did) and delete the one that is empty. The other one remaining is your main Calendar info from Entourage. NOTE: One good thing about this methodology of using Apples iCal and Address book apps to transport data between the iPhone and Entourage is that you always have a back up in those Apps! When I deleted the empty duplicate Entourage calendar in iCal, all the information synced between iCal and Entourage restoring by empty Entourage calendar. Then I synced the iPhone in iTunes and all was back to normal. NOTE: Be sure you have the HOME and Entourage checkboxes checked in your info/calendars section as described in the original syncing with iPhone and Entourage instructions on the Apple website. NOTE: In my case contacts was no affected, only calendar events. Also, syncing was happening between the iPhone and iCal just fine, but not between iCal and Entourage. I'm sure there may be variances of this issue... but it looks like the best overall fix is to export your Entourage calendar event and delete at the same time, then delete that duplicated Entourage Calendar in iCal, and go from there. NOTE: When I did a global sync I ended up with 177 new contacts that were duplicate of two different email messages that somehow got converted to contacts and ended up in my iPhone. The fix for that was to select them all in Entourage and delete them then do another sync, then ALL was back to normal. I am now HAPPY AGAIN! Carl

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OSX 10.6.2
iCal Version 4.0.1 (1374)
I am having a very similar problem. Mine stopped sync'ing after my upgrade to Snow Leopard. Shortly thereafter I updated Entourage during a Microsoft update. The update prompted to reset the sync properties as it does every time I've updated recently and not surprisingly something broke. I spent 6 hours last night researching and trying every "fix" I could find. Including resetting sync, deleting directories associated with Sync, iCal and caches. So much so that I can do it in my sleep now. If our exchange server was new enough to sync with iCal and Mail I would just toss Entourage and move on. However, it (Entourage) is my only option at this point.
The frustrating thing is that with my best friend Google, I am able to fix almost anything on my Mac, not this. Here are some of the errors logged in my console related to my last sync attempt. The only thing I think I have not tried is to reinstall Entourage. Is that my only hope?
Has anyone else seen this issue?
Is there a way to write an apple script to show me one of the "record" in error? I don't mind deleting it.
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Console output below ***************
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM Microsoft Sync Services[13211] [140aa80] |ISyncSession|Error| Unresolved reference encountered during push for client com.microsoft.Entourage2008
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[13206] 2010-03-16 08:22:24.835 Microsoft Sync Services[13211:903] [140aa80] |ISyncSession|Error| Unresolved reference encountered during push for client com.microsoft.Entourage2008
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM Microsoft Sync Services[13211] [140aa80] |ISyncSession|Error| Relationships causing error:
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[13206] 2010-03-16 08:22:24.835 Microsoft Sync Services[13211:903] [140aa80] |ISyncSession|Error| Relationships causing error:
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM Microsoft Sync Services[13211] [140aa80] |ISyncSession|Error| Record 'A474774B-04B6-4F7A-840B-25787BE32AF9'(com.apple.calendars.Event) refers to record '8996D775-8689-4769-9E30-704BF0A2C819' in relationship 'main event'
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[13206] 2010-03-16 08:22:24.837 Microsoft Sync Services[13211:903] [140aa80] |ISyncSession|Error|
3/16/10 8:22:24 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[13206] Record 'A474774B-04B6-4F7A-840B-25787BE32AF9'(com.apple.calendars.Event) refers to record '8996D775-8689-4769-9E30-704BF0A2C819' in relationship 'main event'

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I just bought an iPhone. I am trying to get my phone and my MacBook Pro synced up through iCloud.
I realize that I need to have Outlook 2011 and iCal set up for syncing for this to work.
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frederick261 wrote:
Thanks for the reply Arthur. Actually, I just got off the phone with an apple rep telling me you can't downgrade, and that yes, apple actually IS forcing you to use iCloud - if, that is, you actually want to be able to sync your contacts or calendar. Apparently you are special and know something different, so please enlighten the rest of us.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6311
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If your Mavericks came with anything other than Mavericks pre-installed
OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
Also there are a host of other Cloud services you can use. You do not have to use iCloud at all. Although there ARE over 320+ million iCloud presently active, so it is extremely popular with users.
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{quote:title=Julian Wright wrote:}
Ok... so in that case, what is keeping track of changes to the files on the flashcard? When you plug it into the Mac after using it on the PC, what decides which files are newer and which files to move from the flashcard to the Mac, and which files to move from the Mac to the flashcard? What decides what to do when there is newer data on both?
I suspect you are not actually syncing, but simply manually copying the data each time using the flashcard as the transport medium.
No, I have two sync programs, one on the Mac, one on the PC, they sync their files to the flashcard.
{quote:title=Julian Wright wrote:}
Have you tried configuring iTunes on both your home Mac and work PC to sync calendars to your iPod touch? If so, does it work or is data overwritten?
That was my question, can it be done? I'm guessing, from what you are saying here, that iTunes should be able to handle it? I don't have iTunes on the PC, so I haven't tried it. Is the functionality the same as on the Mac?

ICal and Entourage quit syncing

I use Entourage 2004 as my calendar and sync it with iCal and hence to my iPhone. This has always worked very well. However, I had to do a rebuild of my Entourage database and now iCal no longer syncs. Any thought son what happened and how to fix it?

I kept searching and found a solution from Kerry at http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/browse_thre ad/thread/a758c477739cdab3/5b609b739511232e#5b609b739511232e
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This worked for me. Of course, it means choosing to update either the Calendar or my Contacts but for now, this is better than the mess I was having. Here is Kerry's solution:
*The best thing to do is sync only one module, in my case its Calendar as this is the thing I change all the time whereas I rarely change contacts.
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2. Back up your main Entourage identity and iCal.
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I had just the same issue - sometime after installing iPhone OS 3.0 my Entourage Calendar in iCal stopped syncing, though the calendar in Entourage remained intact and continued to sync with the Exchange server. After going through all of the "sync services reset" protocols I could find, I finally got it to work by clearing the Entourage Calendar Cache. Before doing this, turn off "sync services" in Entourage preferences and make sure your Exchange calendar is synced with the exchange server because this will erase your local version of the Exchange calendar. Next, "control-click" on the calendar folder icon (this is the calendar icon with a green circle with a white check mark that appears when you expand the arrow to the left of your server account name at the top of the left column of a calendar window - above "Folders on My Computer"), select "Folder Properties" then "Empty" cache. After you do this, your calendar data will disappear and repopulate from the exchange server. This took a while for me. Once the data reappeared, it became apparent that there were some duplicated recurring events that were cluttering up the calendar even though not previously displayed. I fixed these, then turned "sync services" back on in Entourage preferences. The "Entourage" calendar in iCal repopulated after a few minutes and I was back in business. To clean things up, I also had to delete a couple of extra "Entourage" calendars in the iCal list that had no events. Don't know if this will work for your problem but it fixed mine. Good Luck.

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I had just the same issue - sometime after installing iPhone OS 3.0 my Entourage Calendar in iCal stopped syncing, though the calendar in Entourage remained intact and continued to sync with the Exchange server. After going through all of the "sync services reset" protocols I could find, I finally got it to work by clearing the Entourage Calendar Cache. Before doing this, turn off "sync services" in Entourage preferences and make sure your Exchange calendar is synced with the exchange server because this will erase your local version of the Exchange calendar. Next, "control-click" on the calendar folder icon (this is the calendar icon with a green circle with a white check mark that appears when you expand the arrow to the left of your server account name at the top of the left column of a calendar window - above "Folders on My Computer"), select "Folder Properties" then "Empty" cache. After you do this, your calendar data will disappear and repopulate from the exchange server. This took a while for me. Once the data reappeared, it became apparent that there were some duplicated recurring events that were cluttering up the calendar even though not previously displayed. I fixed these, then turned "sync services" back on in Entourage preferences. The "Entourage" calendar in iCal repopulated after a few minutes and I was back in business. To clean things up, I also had to delete a couple of extra "Entourage" calendars in the iCal list that had no events. Don't know if this will work for your problem but it fixed mine. Good Luck.

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I am moving a lot of my email and calendar stuff over to Entourage, but iCal and Address Book are easier to sync to external things and web links, so I have these running too.
I set Entourage to sync up to iCal and it did this, merging my calendars nicely. However, then I ran iSync to pull the latest stuff from my phone and iCal was updated, but Entourage wasn't. Do I have to run a job to get this to happen? There didn't seem to be any option do this, so how do I keep them in Sync. I already have the boxes ticked to keep Entouage synced with Address book and iCal.

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Hi. I set up Entourage to sync with iCal. This created an Entourage calendar in iCal, so far so good. I created a new event in iCal and put it in the Entourage calendar. Go over to Entourage and it has synced up nicely. Great so far.
Then I go back to iCal and change all my stuff over to the Entourage calendar. Go back to Entourage. Nothing. I go to the Calendar pull-down and select SyncNow. Nothing. The one event that synced ok before is still there, but nothing else. I go back to iCal and create new events and these wont sync.
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Thanks.

Can you give a bit more information about what you've done? When you say you have gone back to iCal and changed all your stuff to the Entourage calendar, do you mean that you changed individual events to the Entourage calendar in iCal. Does that mean this is the only calendar left in iCal?
If so, then my suggestion is:
1) back up your iCal calendar - File, Back up iCal
2) ensure the calendar name in iCal is "Entourage"
3) go to Entourage preferences and untick "synchronise events & tasks with iCal"
4) quit Entourage, open Entourage and tick "synchronise events & tasks with iCal" again
5) you will be asked before it syncs how you wish the sync to occur and you should select to have iCal override Entourage.
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i mainly use ical but i have a few things on entourage and i am trying to sync the two using the Sync Services in entourage but it will only move the stuff from entourage to ical it doesnt move or sync any of mt events in ical to entourage i have tried all three setting for the sync services merge, and the replace both ways. i would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this. thanks

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1670
http://www.office.mvps.org/syncservices/ical.html
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ICal and Entourage - Is it Possible?

Hey all,
So I have recently (as in today) been looking at Entourage as an alternative to Apple's Mail application. I was SOAR when I found out that the 'Sync' feature was NOT going to work properly, and here is why.
From what I understand, ICal uses different CALENDARS to differentiate between items, calendar like 'Personal,' 'Business' and 'Wife Time,' while ENTOURAGE uses ONE calendar (like Outlook) and simply categorizes it. THUS, when I SYNC them, I get all my little calendars in ICal and in MobileMe, including a calendar for ENTOURAGE.
NOW! Here is my question! IS IT POSSIBLE? - Can we EXPORT or SUBSCRIBE my 'Entourage' calendar in ICal to my OTHER calendars in ICal? If so, I WOULD have doubles of EVERYTHING, but could potentially solve the problem. I DOUBT this is likely.
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