Calendar has ghost event, not sure how to remove (picture)

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Calendar has ghost event, not sure how to remove (picture)

I've started to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 to sync my contacts/calendar but for some reason on March 12, 2007 I'm getting a ghost event on my iPhone. I've checked the calendar in Outlook and there are definitely no events or anything scheduled for that day. All other events appear to be syncing properly along with my contacts. Anyone know of a way to clear all events for a day in Outlook even though there is nothing there to select and delete?

http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ghosteventdc1.jpg

It's not that big of a deal being that it's just one day (so far that I've seen) and non-repeating. I just don't want a lot of ghost events to start appearing and taking up space on my calendar.

Anyone else seeing this? I'll try to do a fresh calendar sync from Outlook to my iPhone and see if it cleans up the ghost event.

- TL

8GB iPhone, 6GB iPod Mini, Windows XP

Posted on Jul 13, 2007 10:14 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 13, 2007 11:45 AM in response to longfocus

I am having the same problem but mine is on March 10, 2008. I assume it is an issue with the iPhone software since I am using a Mac.

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PTBoater

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Jul 13, 2007 12:03 PM in response to Josh 90046

Houston, we have a problem...

... I have a dot in EVERY SINGLE day. All of them. And here I thought it was SUPPOSED to be that way.

Heh..

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longfocus Author

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Jul 13, 2007 12:21 PM in response to Josh 90046

Yeah, it definitely sounds like an annoying issue. Thanks for the heads up with your issue on the Mac.

I tried doing a "Replace information on this iPhone" sync, with the Calendars, and the ghost event still appears. Next, I'll try deleting the calendar from Outlook (not sure how though) and see if the event is still showing up after syncing.

- TL

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longfocus Author

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Jul 13, 2007 12:22 PM in response to PTBoater

ahhh yeah... that might be a little bit more of an issue =) you definitely should NOT have dots on every day.

- TL

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Jul 13, 2007 12:41 PM in response to longfocus

Check to see if the event on March 11, is an all day event, because sometimes the calander will put the day you want and the next day for an all day event. Not sure why this happened, but sometimes i have to manually change the end date to reflect the same all day (one day) event. Hope this helps

ibook, Macbook, iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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longfocus Author

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Jul 13, 2007 12:59 PM in response to Scott Renteria

There is an all day event on March 11 and you're definitely correct that that event is running over to March 12.

I believe the issue still lies with the iPhone because when I remove the event on March 11, from the iPhone, both events disappear. I then tried adding the event back, from the iPhone, and it showed a dot for both days. Very strange functionality with the calendar... I guess I'll be using the feedback tool about this issue.

- TL

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Dogan

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Jul 13, 2007 1:52 PM in response to longfocus

What time does the event start on the first day? Could it be time zone related?

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longfocus Author

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Jul 13, 2007 2:07 PM in response to Dogan

The event on March 11 is selected as an "All-day" event. When "All-day" is selected it automatically sets "Starts" and "Ends" to the date (with no time) in this case "Sun Mar 11, 2007." I've got lots of other all day events (birthdays) that don't exhibit this issue. It only appears to happen on March 11 as I've tried setting other "All-day" events in that month.

I don't believe it's time-zone related, thanks for the suggestion though.

- TL

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