All of the sudden my iCal is not playing nice with syncing.
It has been working perfectly until recently.
I sync the iPad to MobileMe, then MobileMe to iCal on my MacBook - been working flawlessly since I got my iPad.
I don't sync my MacBook every day - I sync it manually. So, I'm not sure when this started happening, as I hadn't synced it in about a week. (was it doing it before then, or did it just start since this sync)
Oddly enough, some events do sync. I made a change to an event title on my iPad and then synced it. It showed up on my MacBook just fine.
Then, I deleted some events, and some showed up on my MacBook, but some didn't make it. Some were duplicated 3 times, and then that duplication made it back to my iPad.
I deleted the incorrect events on my iPad, and those haven't sync'ed correctly to the MacBook - meaning, they still show up on my MacBook, but my iPad is correct.
I figured that something got messed up with syncs, and too many changes on too many devices, so I set up my MobileMe preferences to overwrite my MacBook iCal with the MobileMe data, since my iPad was the correct info, which would mean that MobileMe would have the correct info, right? So, I overwrote my MacBook with MobileMe, and nothing changed on my MacBook.
And, my iPad is still correct. (which syncs with MobileMe)
So, I have a correct iPad iCal. Which syncs with Mobile Me. Which syncs to my MacBook iCal, which has incorrect information. It is like MobileMe has 2 databases or something, and it is syncing one of those with my iPad, and the other one with my MacBook, and neither the twain shall meet.
I haven't tried resetting everything, as I'm a little nervous about wiping out my data. The iPad is correct, so restoring the iCal stuff from a backup on my MacBook might not yield the correct information.
And, it happened recently. All I can think of is that the repeating events are messing something up. I have a couple of repeating events for every Saturday - clients I see - and on different weeks they have cancelled. So, I deleted that event in my iCal on my iPad, and said to apply it to this event only. I wonder if breaking up repeated events by modifying one event somehow screws up the database/info. I know you are supposed to be able to make changes to only one event, but that seems to get messed up somehow.
(I remember having a problem a few years ago - way before iPhone/iPad - and events were disappearing. They were disappearing because somehow, there were hundreds of instances of a repeating event on the same day, and that many repeating events on the same day with repeating 1x per week, made it so all of the events didn't show - but they were there on a search. I deleted the offending events - possibly even that whole calendar and it was fixed.) I wonder if something similar is happening in that messing with one event in a series of repeated events is making sync'ing not working correctly.
I did a search on the Apple support forums, and there are quite a few recent posts about iCal suddenly not syncing correctly from MobileMe, and those posts showed up in the past couple of weeks (with very few comparatively in weeks prior to recent weeks). So it is either a huge coincidence, or something changed that messed with things. Or maybe those having problems have modified repeating events, and has messed up something?
Who knows, and if you read this entire post, well then kudos to you!
