Where are those recurring events coming from? - K800

Question

The calendar of my Sony Ericsson K800 is stuffed with so-called recurring events from years ago.
I say "so-called" because the events in question are from 2002 and 2003 and when I entered them in iCal they weren't recurring but where normal iCal events. Somewhere along the line either my phone, iSync or iCal has decided they would be nicer as recurring.
To try and get rid of them I've deleted all calendar events on the phone. I've gone to iCal and deleted the calendars in questions, not just the events but the whole calendar. I even spent an age looking through my remaining 2002 and 2003 iCal event by event to check that none of them remaining records where recurring. Then I went to iSync and Reset All Devices.
But they are still there, laughing at me. Meetings from my old employer coming back to haunt me.
HELP, how do I get rid of them?
tia
M

Answer 1

Coincidentally, I just had almost exactly the same problem myself with a Sony Ericsson W610.
I couldn't find the events in iCal, and exporting and reimporting didn't sort it (as often it does).
What solved it for me was exporting the offending Calendar from iCal as an .ics file (File > Export...) and deleting the calendar from iCal.
Then I opened the .ics in a plain text editor, located the title of the event and deleted it manually by removing everything between the BEGIN: and END: surrounding the offending event.
Then I resaved the .ics file (as a new file, not overwriting the original!) and re-imported that back into iCal.
Bit of a kludge but it worked for me...