Sync with both Outlook and iCal / Address book

Hi,
I had an Exchange account, the contacts and the calendar was syncronized with my iPhone.
The Exchange account was deleted, so does my outlook client (actually, it was in my old company notebook what I had to give it back ...).
The conatct and calender entries are still in my iPhone, actually I need those very much.
But - if i delete the Exchange account from the iPhone, it will delete all the contacts and calendar entries - no option to merge to an other source. If I leave it as is - I can not save/ sync or edit these entries in my mac, because they are not synchronised any more ...
Do anyone has any idea how to save this entries to my mac directly, preferably to iCal / address book (without the Exchenge server and without the outlook client)?
thanx a lot
koko

Hi,
after following a couple of threads and hints about this, I decided to research the issue myself. Posts like http://www.entourage.mvps.org/syncservices/ical.html seems to be out-of-date compared to my Entourage 2008/Leopard 10.5.1 configuration, but the hints provided are translatable to newer configs (with some imagination). No warranties, but this worked for me:
1. Open Entourage, choose preferences and disable all sync services. (By now, you should have all your events within Entourage Calendar, and being prepared to loose all data i iCal and PDA.)
2. Open iSync, choose preferences, and reset sync history. Close iSync.
3. Open iCal, delete the Entourage Calendar. Close iCal.
4. Navigate to ~Library/Application Support and delete
a) The folder Calendars and all its contents
b) All contents of the folder iSync
c) All contents of the folder SyncServices
5. Navigate to ~Library/Preferences
a) Delete com.apple.iCal.plist (if you find any other iCal files, those should probably be deleted as well)
b) Browse this directory for any files containing iSync or SyncServices. Delete'em all.
c) Repeat this excercise for the ByHost subdirectory.
6. Restart Entourage, choose preferences and switch the desired sync services on.
7. Restart iCal, and watch the Entourage calendar reappear (could take a minute or two).
8. Restart iSync, and synchronize your PDA. If the sync process asks to add another Entourage calendar to iCal, approve this. This happened to me, but no events ever made it to this calendar, and I was able to delete it from iCal directly following the sync. It hasn't reappeared.
Note: These hints are for calendar sync, and provided you have all events in the Entourage Calendar. I chose to empty iCal and PDA for the first sync, and to overwrite them with the information from Entourage.
Harald

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