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Changes to ical on iPhone are not syncing over to my iMac ical.

Hello,


I just installed Lion and the newest update to IOS4 for my iphone. Recently I updated my ical and I tried to sync it with the iCal on my desktop. Sadly none of the things I put on my iphone's ical are showing up on my desktop ical. HELP!!!


Luv,

Barry

iCal-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 6:19 PM

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Jul 23, 2011 1:03 AM in response to Ferd II

Should iSync still be there in Lion?

Is there another way?


I'm having the same, or a similar, problem as Barry. Events created on my iPhone doesn't show on my Mac, AND events that I created on my Mac, for test-purposes, and then deleted immediately, show up on the iPhone when syncing.

(Using WeekCal on my iPone, but it seems that the same is the case with the "original" calendar-app.)


Ideas and thought are greatly appreciated.


Ole

Aug 5, 2011 12:31 PM in response to scarybaby

Hi, my name is Lucas, i'm an Apple Certified Technitian.

Last couple of weeks i've installed OSX Lion in a few Macs.

But one of them drove me crazy!


I have a Late 2007 White Macbook and i installed OSX Lion last week. I also have an iPhone 4 (Factory Unlocked) that i also updated to IOS 4.3.5 ... no problems syncing between them


Then i did the same with a 13'' Unibody MacBook Pro and an iPhone 4 (not unlocked)... no problems neither


Yesterday i installed Lion on a Mid2010 15" MacBook Pro and updated another iPhone 4 (Factory Unlocked) to IOS 4.3.5 and when i tried to sync the iphone with iTunes 10.4 nothing happened.

I mean, nothing.. the iTunes started syncing and when it gets to sync the calendars it stayied there forever.

I left it for hours and nothing.


As i said i'm an ACT so i tried everithing.


1- Remove Calendars from iPhone and syncing again

1- Repair Permittions

2- Reinstall iTunes

3- Reset iTunes and iCal Preferences and Caches

4- Backup iCal - erase ical content and generate a new iCal database

5- Reset Syncing Prefs and logs

6- Use DiskWarrior from an external OSX

7- Reset PRAM


Nothing worked.

I thought it could be some conflict with Microsoft Outlook and/or Exchange server since this Mac is the only one of the three macs i installed that uses Outlook Sync and Exchange server and it's the only one that gave me trouble.

But disableing it didn't worked neither.


I Already solved this thing out. But i still don't understand the logic of all this... anyway, what y did is this:


1- turn off microsoft outlook sync with iCal (from outlook preferences)

2- Backed up iCals (Just in case)

3- Create a new Calendar Category (by default you have Work and Home... i created one called Test)

4- i Created a new task at that calendar

5- In iTunes uncheck the "Sync iCal" box and sync the iPhone

6- Check th "Sync iCal" box, then check the "sync the selected calendars" box

7- Check the "Test" calendar and sync the iPhone.


This worked so i started creating task in this Test Calendar both in iphone and mac, just to test it, Worked fine.


Then i selected all the other calendars (Home - Work - etc) and i turned on the outlook sync

Then i synced the iPhone and Voilà everything is working again.

Now i can create task in outlook calendar and when y sync the iphone it appears on it.


I don't know what the problem is... but this looks like the solution

Changes to ical on iPhone are not syncing over to my iMac ical.

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