sync services on outlook 2011 - OSX lion

Thanks,

Wish I had found your solution first, would have saved me hours.

Thank you, this works perfectly!

but i can't see this file in my lion

this seemed to solve a lot of sync problems with outlook. thanks! 😎

Yes, it worked. Thank you.

Guys, I did exactly as described here, deleted the file, checked boxes in Sync Services again and nothing happened. Made several tests creating new contacts in Outlook - they do not appear in Address Book...

It is very strange: my calendar, notes and other staff did sync and also when I connected Iphone through Itunes it did take new contact from outlook, however, still no new contacts appear in the Mac address book... Please help!

Thanks guys, I tried deleting the suggested file, but the address book still refuses to sync. Tried it 2-3 times. Any idea.

I have tried moving the contacts from the Address Book via dragging them to a folder and then further dragging them in to Outlook, but the thing is that the contacts are all 'cards' and all emails originating from the email ids from these cards are different in color. Have no idea how to solve this problem.

Just tried it and it worked....thank you guys

I did all described here and I also contacted Microsoft help. And yes, it helps to sync deleting this files and also restarting sync services in Mac itself. But it syns only once and then it stops working with Outlook again. Microsoft support explained that this is because the Apple protocols are not yet supported. More detailes here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2648915/en-us. And they also said that in Service pack 2 which should come in new year it probably will be solved.

I have Outlook 2011 + Lion. I followed your advise above. The only contacts in my address book are 5 that I have put in since installing Outlook 1 week ago. I have 366 contacts in Outlook.

I then went to another solution, followed 1st suggested solution (1-4) and it didn't work. I then typed the line in terminal. Now my sync image in top bar, when clicked, states "no devices syncing".

I'm LOST! Do I have to call Apple and spend hours on phone?

1. Hold the Option key on your keyboard, then click the Sync menu in the menu bar:
   if you see the Sync menu but you are unable to open it, skip to step 8.
2. Choose Reset Sync Services.
3. Click Reset Sync History.
4. Test for the original issue. If the issue persists, or if you are unable to open the Sync menu, follow these steps:
5. In the Finder, choose Utilities from the Go menu.
6. Open Terminal.
7. In the Terminal window, type or paste the following command on a single line:
   /System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsyn c.pl full
   
   
8. Press Return.
9. When the operation is complete, quit Terminal.

SyncServices (iPhone-iCal) and Outlook-iCal sync work again after removing multiple calendar events

I have had increasing problems for some time with Sync Services (iPhone to iCal) and Outlook to iCal, which were both getting slower and even incomplete (posts were missing or not updated). The Sync Services process would sometimes use almost the entire processor capacity, making the whole computer slowing down and the fan working really hard to cool down the processor. Adding a cooling fan tablet underneath solved the heat problem, but not the underlying problem :-)

I went through all steps recommended in this Apple KB article (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2481) and things became slightly better after reset etcetera, but were still not satisfactory.

I then searched and found more than 25 000 calendar event instances (in the time frame 2005-2008). Most of these were repeated between 5-10 times, but a few occured 100:s times and two events even 1300 times! After removing all of these multiple instances (which took me about 5 hours using the search-and-delete function), the machine is quicker than ever before and the syncing functions work quickly and accurately in both directions, from iPhone to iCal and from iCal to MS Outlook or the other way around. I also used the Replace all content on iPhone with iCal when I syncronized the iPhone to avoid everything to be copied back again. One particular problem was all calendar appointments, that forces updates to be mailed to all invited parties when I deleted the event - I just turned the machine into offline mode and removed all outbox content of the Outlook mail services before turning it on-line again.

I can imagine this multiple instances problem stems from disorder in the sync registry, such that the same event is taken for a new one and copied back and forth. Particularly the repeated events as birthdays etc took a lot to get rid of. I now recall Sync Services has prompted me, after resetting the sync history, to resolve mismatchs between MS Outlook and iCal (I was asked to tell which posts should be kept), but there was no difference between these posts.

This problem could be resolved by a new function that stops the same event to occur more than once on the same day, or even simpler, just add a PURGE function to iCal and Outlook that allows all events older than xx days to be removed entirely (possibly first reminding the user to write the calendar content to a PDF-file in case one wants to trace back in time). The same would then hold in the Sync Services, give the user the option to avoid syncing of old objects. For some reason, I doubt the option given in iTunes to avoid old objects did work accurately in my case but I am not sure.

It would be interesting to get comments from Apple as well as the MS Outlook team on this issue, because it took me quite some time to find out and I found only one hint in a forum that pointed on the multiple calendar event problem. It could be pointed out clearer I think.

olá Pedro, desculpa estar a escrever em português mas o teu nick name sugere-me que deverás ser português.

estive a ver os teus post´s e também eu tenho a mesma dificuldade em sincronizar o outlook com o google calendar, já tentei todos os passos que ensinas mas não consigo executá-los, devo dizer que sou um novo "user" do sistema mac, acabei de adquirir um "mac book air" e estou a ter dificuldades na adaptação,

pergunto se me poderás ajudar nesta questão, pois por motivos profissionais tenho de ter sempre a minha agenda nos meu dispositivos "todos" e isso só é possível com a sincronização através do Google Calendar, não tenho grande necessidade na questão das categorias, por isso se não for possivel sincroniza-las não tem problema, para mim o mais importante são as marcações.

se puderes enviar as respostas ou qualquer ajuda para : geral@carlosamil.net, agradeço muito!

o meu obrigado desde já,

um abraço

Carlos Amil

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