Problem with items copied on DateBk6 (Palm TX)

Maurice Snellen <maurice-cGKmtqOviqapaK3yNG/KFWZHpeb/A1Y/@public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.calendars.pimlical,gmane.comp.handhelds.palm.datebk
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Listmembers:

Because my phone subscription lasts another year and phones without
subscriptions are extremely expensive in the Netherlands, I will not be
able to go to Pimlical/A in the near future. I will have to make do with
my trusty old Palm TX.

I'm experiencing major issues with items copied on DateBk6. Especially
this week, which is the week when all managers start issuing
appointments for meetings in the next half year to a year. Because there
are slight variations between the appointments, such as location,
weekday or time, I just take an existing similar appointment and start
copying that one to all future dates, making the variations as I go.
This works very well for me as I don't need to have the appointments
linked.

As I was doing this, I noticed however that DateBk6 copies everything
that is in the original note-field of the appointment, including the
invisible Pimlical-specific tags. For the most part, this is not a
problem, but what is a problem, is that it also copies the unique ID
that was in the original appointment to all new ones.

This only becomes noticeable after HotSync, running Pimlical and
synchronizing to Google more than once. Suddenly, it starts complaining
about duplicate entries and in Google Calendar, I only see one of the
appointments that was used/copied.

As the 'find duplicates' does not seem to detect these cases, I have so
far found no other solution except using the built-in Calendar of my TX
to look in the notes, copy the UID, search for it and manually remove
the UID, modified and created-tags from every single copied appointment.

Likewise I have removed all UID, created and modified tags from all my
templates as they too seem to suffer from this issue.

-- 
Greetings,
Maurice

Pimlical v1.3.15, Java v6.0.220.4, Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3



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