Re: Syncing Entourage calendars using .mac

Walter Amaral wrote:
> I am getting duplicate events when I sync Entourage on my two computers
> using .Mac.  Every time I sync I get more duplicates.

Hi wamaral!

Be sure to post your question in the 
microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage newsgroup as well.

I suggest you ex****t you do the following:

1. Stop Entourage sync services.

2. Ex****t your contacts list to a tab or comma delimited file and clean 
up all your duplicates in Excel.

3. Delete all your current contacts and then im****t your cleaned list.

4. Re-enable Entourage sync services.

You can also find scripts on The Entourage Help Page to help you remove 
duplicates <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/syncservices.html>.

I then suggest you update your contacts only in one place. Choose either 
Entourage or Address Book but don't update contacts in both. Between 
these two applications, phones, PDAs, etc., the schema (the list of 
items within each contact) is not 100% the same. For example, while both 
Entourage and Address Book can store pictures, the two don't store them 
the same way. That's why pictures don't sync. Rather than potentially 
deleting or overwriting im****tant data when a conflict occurs you'll end 
up with duplicates. The differences between the duplicates may not be 
apparent but _something_ is different.

Hope this helps! bill
-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)