partial outlook 2007 calendar sync - Page 5 - iPhone 3G

hxk · 08-08-2007, 04:57 AM

I have a different problem. Everything is synching but appt times are being changed to 4 hours earlier. It seems like a time zone problem but I followed the earlier suggestion to turn off time zone support. Any thoughts?

marc8773 · 08-20-2007, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by hxk

I have a different problem. Everything is synching but appt times are being changed to 4 hours earlier. It seems like a time zone problem but I followed the earlier suggestion to turn off time zone support. Any thoughts?

I have this problem as well. Have you (or anyone else) figured it out?

leffand · 08-23-2007, 07:17 PM

I am running Outlook 2003 on XP SP2 I tired everything I have read in this forum, I went so far as to create a new user account on my XP box, I installed a clean version of Outlook 2003, created a fresh brand new clean .PST file and installed iTunes 7.2.3.6. Flashed my iPhone and was ready to see magic.

I entered 4 appointments for the following day. Two recurring appointments and two one time apppointments and just as always in my case the two recurring appointments synced and the two one time appointments did not!

So in my case I have ruled out the following problems:

Too many old appointments
Too much data
Corrupt .PST
Not using .IPM Appointment

And Apple keeps telling me I am the only person in the world having this issue. I have spent more time than I care to admit trying to make this $600 paperweight work.

Without a calendar a PDA is useless to me. I actually had to go to ATT and buya Blackberry 8300 Curve, works flawlessly. If Apple does not fix this problem in the 30 day return period I have for the BB Curve, then my iPhone goes on eBay.

Has anyone out there had any success with any other approach not yet mentioned here?

btc · 08-27-2007, 02:33 PM

Got the same problem except I'm about 5 hrs off!

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Originally Posted by hxk

I have a different problem. Everything is synching but appt times are being changed to 4 hours earlier. It seems like a time zone problem but I followed the earlier suggestion to turn off time zone support. Any thoughts?

hxk · 08-30-2007, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by btc

Got the same problem except I'm about 5 hrs off!

5 hours? I am in boston. what time zone are you in? at least we might be able to figure out if there is some reference time zone to which we are each being converted. equally likely, there is some bug in the system which you and I are lucky enough to have infecting our software....

btc · 08-30-2007, 03:07 AM

Just figured my problem out! Even though I did this before, I tried it again. If anyone is noticing that their calenders are syncing a few hours off of outlook (for me it was 5), do this:

Make sure your outlook and computer time zones are correct. Actually change the time zone and then change it back to the correct one. Now do the same thing on your iPhone. For me, even though the time was correct (I have date and time set automatically on) I had to turn time zone support off and then on again. When I did, "Houston" came on by itself (where I live). Next time I sync'd it was all perfect!

hxk · 09-02-2007, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by btc

Just figured my problem out! Even though I did this before, I tried it again. If anyone is noticing that their calenders are syncing a few hours off of outlook (for me it was 5), do this:

Make sure your outlook and computer time zones are correct. Actually change the time zone and then change it back to the correct one. Now do the same thing on your iPhone. For me, even though the time was correct (I have date and time set automatically on) I had to turn time zone support off and then on again. When I did, "Houston" came on by itself (where I live). Next time I sync'd it was all perfect!

thank you! You have given me back the iphone i could only dream about! Alls well that ends well!

hamtaro · 09-02-2007, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by gmaniax

Hi All

has anyone syncing to outlook 2007 notice that not all events sync with the iphone calendar.

I dont know why this would happen, but only 1/3 of the evnts in outlook seemed to sync to the iphone

very frustrating .... that was the one feature on the treo that worked well...

can anyone help?

thx!!

I have the same problem! I checked add-in and com add-in etc. Basically Iid everything I could find on the internet. But I haven't resolved the issue yet. Right now, I cut and paste an event that syncs and modify it instead of creating a whole new event. This seems to be working....

danab · 09-07-2007, 08:51 AM

Completely UNINSTALLING the LIVE OUTLOOK ADD-IN via the Control Panel in Windows XP fixes the Outlook Calendar sync problem. After doing this, Outlook 2003 finally syncs accurately with iPhone 1.0.2

Follow these steps to correct your sync problem (hopefully)
1-"CONTROL PANEL"
2-"ADD & REMOVE PROGRAMS"
3-"REMOVE"-Live Outlook Add-in (near end of list)

4-"Sync" iPhone in iTunes-7.4 again & your iPhone Calendar should work accurately & match your Outlook calendar.

Good luck!

hcaudill · 09-07-2007, 06:10 PM

I'd tried everything described on this list, and nothing was working for me. It appears that this is because my problems had a couple of different causes, and no one thing was fixing it. I let it go for a few weeks, and just now tried it again (after upgrading to iTunes 7.4 and having my hopes dashed that it would just magically start working).

The problem was as described by many people above: When I synced my iPhone with my Outlook 2007 calendar, it would bring over a few random recurring events - some of them from 2003 - and nothing else. Entries I created on the iPhone calendar would sync back to Outlook, but not the other way around.

Here are the steps I took to finally get my calendar to sync up.

1. Exported my calendar to a new PST file, then cleared out my main calendar (as described above).

2. Created a new test event in my otherwise empty calendar. This did not sync up. Not good.

3. Uninstalled Windows Live Map Add-in (as described above). Now my test event synced up. Good.

4. I opened the PST file containing the exported calendar, and dragged a single (real) event from there onto my main calendar. Now there were two events in my main calendar - the real one I'd dragged over and the test one I'd created. But when I went to sync, still only the test one showed up on the iPhone. Hmm. Not good. I tried various permutations of this, and basically it wouldn't sync any of the events from my old calendar when I dragged and dropped them into the new, empty calendar, but it would sync newly created calendar events. I took this as an indication that there was something really bothering iTunes about the way events in my old calendar were encoded. So:

5. I re-exported my calendar again, this time to a Windows CSV file, in order to strip out whatever issues it was having from the PST format. It converted all recurring entries to individual entries (so if there was an entry that recurred 10 times, it created 10 distinct entries). It asked me for a date range for expanding recurring events in this manner, and I gave it a range that encompassed the entire time I'd been using this calendar (over 7 years).

6. I closed my exported PST file. I created a new empty PST file, created a new Calendar folder in the new PST file, and re-imported my calendar from the CSV file into this folder.

7. I then started copying entries from the new re-imported folder into my main calendar. Lo and behold, they appeared normally on the iPhone! Little by little, I brought over all of the events from my old calendar, and sync continued to work normally.

So: my advice to someone having this problem is to (1) Make sure you can get to the point where a blank calendar with a single event on it syncs up. If you can't get this to happen try uninstalling/disabling plugins, etc. until it syncs up (2) If you still can't get events from your old calendar to sync, try the round-trip through CSV format to clean your calendar data.

Hope this helps someone.