Sync Problem - Dupicate Calendar Entries
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:05 pm
Hi, this is not a response but another case and I am tagging along because it appears the most relevant but also because I am desperate.
It is not the first time that I enter my issue about calendar all day (only) duplicates and I would love this to be resolved, I see several entries in the forum with a similar unresolved (!) issue. It had worked for a while but a glitch such as may be a wifi interrupt or application closing issue and hop! back to the same issue again. I had fixed the situation 2 times with my iPad but cannot remember the conditions. I love EPIM but would like to use it with my iPad and/or iPhone. These duplicates are killing me, I have spent so much time and am completely lost within all different tried configurations.
Here are the steps: one way sync. from EPIM to iOS the first time then a second time few minutes or a day later and it would duplicate only the all day entries. A third try would duplicate a third time, etc… I have played with synchronizations with or without deletions: it multiplies, brings more confusion to relate steps
I cannot reproduce the problem with a newly created test DB despite playing with few entries with recurrences, alarms, ToDo’s, etc… no duplicates there!
What is it about my database that it creates duplicates?
I would love to keep my DB, have a lot of important notes with it. Any way to find out the corruption? To fix it?
The leading information and conditions are:
- have an iPad 2, and an iPhone 4 running iOS 6.1.3, was the same with 5.x and previous 6.x.
- using EPIM 5.56 portable PRO today but issues where the same with all previous versions as well, and synchronize with EssentialPIM for iOS 2.7
- have cleared the synchronization data from database management, my browser(s)’s cache because of icloud(.com), delete the icloud calendars, use the iPhone only, disconnected the iPad from icloud and wifi
- have shut down all running apps on iPad-iPhone, also completely shut them down and restarted them after a while
- have optimize my DB
- restarted EPIM after changing sync. directions
- operated from a couple of different computers running XP pro (latest OS update) and a couple of others with WIN7 professional
- have checked Windows Task Manager for one instance only of EssentialPIM running. Actually they are 2: one using ~66Mb and the other ~2Kb memory. But I have seen these instances doubled when something happened during the synchronization and so leading to improper application closing
- operate from a USB memory key (4Gb), I have tried with the database loaded in the desktop if it was a question of speed because my database if big (~7Mb)
- have also shut down my Microsoft Exchange other feature (work) on the iPhone.
- have eliminated duplicates with the EPIM DupeRemover 5.5
- used a copy of a “good” (previously saved) version
- moved all backups and other copies in another folder
Thanks
It is not the first time that I enter my issue about calendar all day (only) duplicates and I would love this to be resolved, I see several entries in the forum with a similar unresolved (!) issue. It had worked for a while but a glitch such as may be a wifi interrupt or application closing issue and hop! back to the same issue again. I had fixed the situation 2 times with my iPad but cannot remember the conditions. I love EPIM but would like to use it with my iPad and/or iPhone. These duplicates are killing me, I have spent so much time and am completely lost within all different tried configurations.
Here are the steps: one way sync. from EPIM to iOS the first time then a second time few minutes or a day later and it would duplicate only the all day entries. A third try would duplicate a third time, etc… I have played with synchronizations with or without deletions: it multiplies, brings more confusion to relate steps
I cannot reproduce the problem with a newly created test DB despite playing with few entries with recurrences, alarms, ToDo’s, etc… no duplicates there!
What is it about my database that it creates duplicates?
I would love to keep my DB, have a lot of important notes with it. Any way to find out the corruption? To fix it?
The leading information and conditions are:
- have an iPad 2, and an iPhone 4 running iOS 6.1.3, was the same with 5.x and previous 6.x.
- using EPIM 5.56 portable PRO today but issues where the same with all previous versions as well, and synchronize with EssentialPIM for iOS 2.7
- have cleared the synchronization data from database management, my browser(s)’s cache because of icloud(.com), delete the icloud calendars, use the iPhone only, disconnected the iPad from icloud and wifi
- have shut down all running apps on iPad-iPhone, also completely shut them down and restarted them after a while
- have optimize my DB
- restarted EPIM after changing sync. directions
- operated from a couple of different computers running XP pro (latest OS update) and a couple of others with WIN7 professional
- have checked Windows Task Manager for one instance only of EssentialPIM running. Actually they are 2: one using ~66Mb and the other ~2Kb memory. But I have seen these instances doubled when something happened during the synchronization and so leading to improper application closing
- operate from a USB memory key (4Gb), I have tried with the database loaded in the desktop if it was a question of speed because my database if big (~7Mb)
- have also shut down my Microsoft Exchange other feature (work) on the iPhone.
- have eliminated duplicates with the EPIM DupeRemover 5.5
- used a copy of a “good” (previously saved) version
- moved all backups and other copies in another folder
Thanks