http://www.tidbits.com/ The details of how iTunes and MobileMe syncing work keep changing through successive versions of the iPhone OS. "Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard" author Michael E. Cohen explains how each version has worked, and how to prevent duplicate calendar events from appearing on your iPhone or iPod touch. en-us Copyright 2009 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:46:28 PDT Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:46:28 PDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://www.tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://www.tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_4858 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:46:01 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_4858 • Reset the MobileMe sync history. Hold down the Option key, click the MobileMe sync circle in the menu bar and choose the Reset Sync Services option from the drop down menu.
• Open the MobileMe System Preferences and in the Account tab, click the Sign Out... button and enter random letters and numbers in the member name and password fields. You should receive an invalid member name or password error message. Do this 3 times.
• Now log back in with your correct member name and password.
• Next, click the Sync tab and click Synchronize with MobileMe, set it to manually, check only calendars at this time, then click the Advanced button in the Syc tab. If you get a message that states another computer with the same name is already registered, click Use Same name.
• In the Advanced/Sync window, select the registered computers.
• You should then be prompted to remove the unused sync data, which you want to do.
(You will resync the data from your computer with the updated information so no data will be lost. This option will help to prevent the duplicated calendars from returning).
• Select only the check box for Calendars.
• Now you need to reregister this computer if it does not register automatically. Click the Sync tab, and click Synchronize with MobileMe, this should register the computer.
• The next message should say On MobileMe with sync data from this computer and the arrow should point to MobileMe, Computer --> MobileMe, and the text above the icons says "On MobileMe with sync info from this computer. If it does not say that you need to change the arrows so that it does.
• After you have done this and made sure the arrow points to MobileMe, Computer --> MobileMe, and the text above the icons says "On MobileMe with sync info from this computer, then click the Replace button.
• Now log in to your account online and see if the calendars match your computer: http://www.me.com/calendar
• If you're subscribed to any Calendars, these won't appear in MobileMe, but they should appear in your synced devices.
• You can now recheck the sync options in the MobileMe System Preferences that were checked earlier and sync as you were normally.


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About duplicate contacts and calendars on iPhone 3.0
By: grapegraphics on Thu, Jun 18 2009 at 1:57PM PDT
iPhone settings (Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars/MobileMe)

- turn OFF "Contacts," wait and then select DELETE from my iPhone.
- Turn ON "Contacts," wait and then select MERGE

- turn OFF "Calendars," wait and then select DELETE from my iPhone.
- Turn ON "Calendars," wait and then select MERGE

Seemed to work for me

Jb]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1270 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:42:35 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1270 Opposite problem. I get duplicate events but they appear in iCal, not on the iPhone. Started w/3.1. I do not use MobileMe [but it tries to rear its ugly head thru Sync and Conflict Resolver].
So: a brand new recurring event, in a brand new calendar, when changed on the iPhone is treated as a new and therefore dup event in iCal. Say, 3 changes on the iPhone... I now have that many events in iCal, plus the original of course.
On the iPhone... all is well. I have been pounding on this problem for a couple of weeks now. Any thoughts from those with similar issue?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1243 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:46:15 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1243 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1242 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:38:14 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1242 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1231 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:05:40 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1231 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1227 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:40:32 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1227 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1225 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:44:03 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1225 Now can you do the same thing for Contacts? My list is not only littered with duplicates but also triplicates and in some cases the same contact appears four or five times. I tried a reset but that did more harm than good. The duplicates, etc, are still there, and I have lost a lot of data from other parts of the iPhone. Life can never be simple, can it?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1214 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:30:33 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1214 Even worse upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 left me with two "MobileMe" groups of calendars. Only the new group, including subscribed calendars, would be deleted when turning MobileMe syncing off and on again. Only syncing with a second MobileMe account removed the older entries.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1202 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:21:33 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1202 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1201 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:18:35 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1201 Finally found the elegant way to eliminate the iTunes duplicates by:
On iPhone Settings > Mail,Contacts,Calendars > Accounts (MyMobileMeAccount) > Turn OFF the Calendar switch.
Then turn it back on. iPhone warns you you have calendars on your iPhone and asks if you wish to Merge or Delete. Just select Delete. This wipes all calendar info from the iPhone. Next sync update from Mobile Me will download a single set of calendars held at MobileMe. Next sync with the Mac will eliminate the duplicate calendars on the Mac.
Same process works with Address Book.
Problem fixed (after loosing half my hair)

You can view single calendars on iPhone, to eliminate clutter; only other choice is ALL.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1137 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:23:06 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1137
http://whistlewater.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/this-is-how-apple-ical-sync-should-work/]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1136 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:00:08 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1136 The important thing is that the Contact and Calendar lists on the phone must be empty when you turn on MobileMe. The way I did it was to create a group called empty in iCal and Address Book, then configure iTunes to sync only that group for each. Sync that.
Now turn off MobileMe sync for Contacts and Calendars, select 'Delete from My iPhone', and turn it back on. It didn't offer to merge the data for me, it just did it. I now have Contacts and Calendar groups in a single list, not split into Mac/iPhone and MobileMe.
You can now go back and delete the Empty groups in iCal and Address Book, and set iTunes to not sync Contacts or Calendars.
Worked for me :)]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1135 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:48:11 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1135 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1134 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:57:41 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1134
I agree with your wish list.

Did you send it to Apple? If you haven't you should, since Apple is more likely to change the way the iPhone software behaves if it actually gets direct user feedback about the problem.

Use this address:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572?rss#comments_1130 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:15:30 PDT http://db.tidbits.com/article/10572#comments_1130
So there's no way to view my important 3 calendars at the same time without thousands of extraneous events. It was actually better before 3.1 when my subscribed calendars weren't sync'd at all.

I would like to see:
1. Ability to choose which calendars sync via MobileMe
2. A way to turn on/off each calendar on the phone, just like in iCal]]>