[noir_evolution]

I've had my 8830 for the better part of three months and its been working flawlessly until 2 days ago. I went to sync my bb with my pc and got an error message midway through the process. The error occurs during "reading from microsoft outlook calendar." It stops at record 50 out of 215. I cannot continue with the process and have not been able to sync my bb for days. Any feedback or possible solutions would be greatly appreciated. Feeling and and

[rynryn]

Did you get a solution to this? I'm having the same problem on my BB Curve.

[bbkitten]

Here is a tip from another thread ... I have no problems syncing the calendar and the adr bk but even after the fix below, I still can't get the memos or task to sync in either direction ... Good luck!

Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a software issue with the latest Desktop Manager and the 8130. I spent 4 hours on the phone over 2 days with VZW and RIM and finally got it figured out. I could not sync my contacts at all. The work around that I was given to allow me to do it is as follows.

Open up Options-- Advanced Options -- Service Book and then delete any e-mail address followed by "CICAL"

Once these were deleted, I was able to sync my calendar.

Apparently RIM now knows about this issue and will hopefully work on a permanent fix.
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[madscientist]

mine just started doing that today. seriously, this is strange.

[rynryn]

Thanks for the "CICAL" tip, but I didn't have any to delete. However, I found this off another thread about duplicates and this worked for me....Originally Posted by pworms
To solve this problem, try to synch. Watch out at what stage of the synch you get the "Duplicate records found on the device" message (calendar, tasks, contacts, whatever). With your device connected, go to the backup/restore function. Choose "advanced". In the "device database" list, go to the database at the root of your troubles (e.g., "Calendar" if your synch stopped at the calendar stage). Click clear. This wipes the device clean of that data. Synch again: problem solved.

[madscientist]

i updated to the new desktop manager, problem solved.

however, one problem i've always had is that at the end i get an error screen that tells me that one record was skipped with the following message

Address Book: Device - 0, Microsoft Outlook - 1

Please check the synchronization log for more details.



So i go and check it and i don't see anything out of the ordanary.
anyone have any clue on what's wrong?

[toytracker]

Thanks for posting the CICAL fix - that cleared up my problem where the sync would stop after looking at all the records, the log showed this error:

Internal Error #-728.
Translation Canceled!

When I checked the log after deleting the email accts with CICAL, this was the header:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
On 1/5/2008 12:23 PM
Synchronize Handheld Calendar with Microsoft Outlook Calendar

First System: Handheld
Second System: Microsoft Outlook
Conflict Resolution: Notify
Appointment Range: From 1/5/2008 To 12/31/2400

Total Inputs From First System: 0

Field mapping used for translation:

<snipped >

User has requested a re-sync.
Translation Canceled!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

So the CICAL fix seems to force a re-sync.

One possible "gotcha": the Appointment Range got reset as well, and appointments before 1/5 (listed as "failed" in the sync log), seem to be duplicated now on my BB.

So I'm not quite sure how the "Appointment Range" feature works, or if there's anywhere to change it...

Rich

[toytracker]

however, one problem i've always had is that at the end i get an error screen that tells me that one record was skipped with the following message

Address Book: Device - 0, Microsoft Outlook - 1

Please check the synchronization log for more details.



So i go and check it and i don't see anything out of the ordanary.
anyone have any clue on what's wrong?

I was having the exact same message, just tracked it down today...

In my log, I found this little tidbit (really buried, do a search for "SKIP"):

Total Inputs From Second System: 325
SKIP "<Key Fields Empty>"
ADD "<Unspecified>"

That was enough of a clue, and sure enough in my Outlook Contacts I had a contact with just a phone number and no first or last name ... I deleted that record, re-synced, and this time it offered to delete a record on the handheld, which was the same number but did have a last name. Problem solved for me.

HTH, Rich

[SKW1993]

Thanks for sharing your solution for the "1 skipped file" message. I had been getting that too, but couldn't figure out why. The file that had no data turned out to be the "Welcome to Contacts" entry that was before all my contacts. Of course it had no info in any of the fields. I deleted that and "Presto!", problem solved, no more "skipped file" message when I sync :-) Thanks again :-)

[philmair]

Brilliant !! 2 problems solved in one thread!

Thanks to Rynryn - my calander stopped sync'ing a couple of days ago - been searching the forums for ages. The Backup/Clear option worked right away.

Also, thanks to Toytracker - I was getting the same record skipped message - more annoying than a real problem. But found I also had an Outlook record with no name. Deleted it and the problem went away.

[Moved from a Palm Treo to the BB Curve a week ago - very emotional ... been a die hard Palm user for many, many years - but have to say the Curve is just fantastic ]

[thchau]

SKW1993, how did you find the Welcome to Contacts, I can't find that in my Outlook contacts. I'm getting this same error and don't have any contacts with no names

[dgsinclair]

Thanks for sharing your solution for the "1 skipped file" message. I had been getting that too, but couldn't figure out why. The file that had no data turned out to be the "Welcome to Contacts" entry that was before all my contacts. Of course it had no info in any of the fields. I deleted that and "Presto!", problem solved, no more "skipped file" message when I sync :-) Thanks again :-)

that 1 skipped file message was making me crazy! I had one outlook contact that had no entry in either the name or company field, but DID have entries in the job desc. and file as fields. Once I put some text in the Company field, voila! No more error message. A thousand thanks.

[richardshayes]

used the advice to clear a calendar that had two entries for each past appointment after i updated the software. Went to backup/restore advanced - there were two calendar entries - i cleared the 'all calender' and left calender resynced and bingo all done

[dmilillo]

Thanks for sharing your solution for the "1 skipped file" message. I had been getting that too, but couldn't figure out why. The file that had no data turned out to be the "Welcome to Contacts" entry that was before all my contacts. Of course it had no info in any of the fields. I deleted that and "Presto!", problem solved, no more "skipped file" message when I sync :-) Thanks again :-)

Thank you!!!
I found my resolution from the above quote. I deleted a blank contact from the public contacts folder that we usually sync with. I created a crackberry user account just to thank the user and this domain for the help. Year 2010 and still helpful.

Dominick

[earlyb1]

Removing CICAL works very well. THANK YOU very much. I am happy that you have taken the time to share your knowledge.