I have tried deactivating the Sync settings in Outlook and starting again but to no avail.
Really appreciate help on this.
Ken Davis.
I run an iMac with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and use MS Office 2011 for Mac. I want to sync Outlook to iCal/Contacts but using the Outlook preferences Sync set up nothing happens in either iCal or Contacts. Does anyone have a solution for this? Apple have referred
me to this site.
Hi Guys.
Recently my iPhone has been very temperamental when syncing calendar events. I've narrowed it down to my Outlook 2011 calendar not syncing with iCal, and therefore not transferring onto my phone.
I've tried a multitude of suggested fixes, such as clearing out iCal and retrying the sync. Also, I've tried turning off Sync Services, closing outlook, reopening it and enabling them, but that made no difference to iCal at all.
Outlook is up to date, and my iMac is running Snow Leopard. Please, can someone help me? It's driving me up the wall!
Many thanks in advance :)
I updated Office for Mac 2011 with 14.3.2 and Mountain Lion with 10.8.3 today (3/20/21013). Interestingly, all data in iCalendar, which I have to maintain to sync with my iPad, was erased (Note: I do not sync using the Cloud. I use iTunes. I don't use
the Cloud). Entries which had been made in iCal but had never been entered in the Office 2011 calendar suddenly show up in the Office 2011 calendar. It is as though the entire contents of the iCal had been transferred to Office 2011 calendar and the iCal
file erased. Also, as part of the update, discrepancies between the Apple Address Book application and Office 2011 Contacts were highlighted and I was asked to choose the correct entry. Both Address books files seems to be in tact.
I've searched the internet for any explanation of what changes these two updates might have had in them but haven't come up with anything relevant to what I have experienced. I was disappointed by the changes to the OS X system (Lion) that eliminated
syncing my iPad with Outlook for Mac using iTunes. I had to transfer my address book and contacts to Apple programs to be able to sync. Now it seems that path has been eliminated for my calendar...at least unless I transfer all my calendar entries back to
iCal...which turned out to be a PITA.
Does anyone have an explanation? The best outcome would be that these new updates somehow gives me a way to sync Outlook contacts and calendar with my iPad, but I am not optimistic. If syncing is not an option, Is there a good way to download my Outlook
calendar to iCal?
When I send an ical invite to users using microsoft windows outlook they cannot automatically upload it in their calendars by accepting it ?
In the past, I noticed that what seemed to be a random event, resulted in all of the data in Address Book and iCal being deleted. This became apparent when I synced my iPhone and iPad.
The last time this happened, I realized it was right after I had done a "critical" update for Office 2011 (that was, perhaps, 2 weeks ago). Then, today I did another Office 2011 "critical" update. But, before I did it, I made sure I'd backed up my Address
Book and iCal data. When the update was done I checked both programs. Data that had been there prior to the update was gone. It is 100% clear to me that this is a BUG in the Office 2011 update process. Has anyone else run into this?
Yes, I can recover - but, I shouldn't have to go through the process of removing the "sync" options in preferences, shutting down and restarting Outlook then re-checking the sync options. Nor should I have to go through a back up prior to an update only
to restore Address Book and iCal after the update.
Carl
Yesterday I updated Microsoft Office 2011. Afterward, my iCal events disappeared. Curiously, they are still visible in Outlook. How do I restore them to iCal?
For some reason yesterday i discovered all my bookings in my calendar in my iphone disappeared after syncing with my laptop. I recently got an iphone 4 and am using Outlook 2011, and it has been syncing without issue for at least 2 weeks. My calendar
in Outlook still exists but the calendar in ical is the same as my iphone, i.e. nothing.... The sync services seems to be set up. The only thing i did differently yesterday is my Outlook was running slow so i closed everything and restarted my computer, normally
i don't close Outlook or shutdown my laptop. So i expect it had something to do with that. I see most of the question posted here are for new devices. Any suggestions??
I was deleting old emails from Outlook 2011 for Mac, OS 10.6.8, when the program crashed.
Upon restarting, all my calendar events were gone, except for one event. Meanwhile, all my contacts and email appear to be intact.
I have my Outlook data backed up with duplicate of my identity, but that backup was from three weeks ago.
Is there a way to merge the newer emails and contacts that are still on my non-backup identity with the backed up identity, with the intent to not lose any of the data created between now and my last backup?
I also have Outlook 2011 syncing with iCal in order to sync with my iPhone.
Thanks in advance,
catfell
Upon restarting, all my calendar events were gone, except for one event. Meanwhile, all my contacts and email appear to be intact.
I have my Outlook data backed up with duplicate of my identity, but that backup was from three weeks ago.
Is there a way to merge the newer emails and contacts that are still on my non-backup identity with the backed up identity, with the intent to not lose any of the data created between now and my last backup?
I also have Outlook 2011 syncing with iCal in order to sync with my iPhone.
Thanks in advance,
catfell
I have been using outlook for almost 20 years, but I am about to give up on it. When I switched to Mac in 2010, I loved the ease of use of the MAC OS compared to the perpetually bugged MS Windows OS.
I found a few things though. While Office 2008 for Mac was prettty good, the Entourage email app was pretty poor not allowing HTML formatted email. This is not a major problem except when trying to forward HTML emails as they would appear all scrambles. As imperfect as Entourage was in email, the calendar and contacts feature were solid and syncing with iCal and Mac address book was ROCK solid.
I upgraded (now it feels like a downgrade) to Outlook 2011. There is no question that the other apps (word, excel, powerpoint) are better than the 2008 Office, but Outlook 2011 is HORRIBLE due to problems syncing with iCal and address book.
I was able to sync with iCal and Address book for a while, but eventually the sync services stopped syncing appointments. After hours and hours of research, I found that I could deactivate MS Sync Services in Outlook preferences, in the Library > Preferences folder I deleted the file named: com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences/plist file and reset sync history in iSync.
I then turn on sync services but I found that every time I did this I got duplication of any calendar event that was an "all day" event. The only way to do this would be to delete all my calendars in iCal before starting to sync again to replace all the data in iCal. The other bigger problem is that after a while, the syncing would again stop working.
Sure I could reset everything again, but the effort to go through this process over and over 1-3 times per day makes this process unworkable for me. I have worked on this problem too long. The bottom line is that MS Outlook 2011 Sync Services DO NOT WORK RELIABLY!!!
After almost 20 years, I must now say goodbye to Outlook. Without a reliable sync to iCal ( and then to my iPhone) Outlook calendar and address book are useless to me. Sad day, but if anyone can help me fix this problem, I will happily stay with Outlook as the calendar is much better than iCal, but without rock solid syncing, it is useless.
Hi there,
I am having a lot of trouble with iCal.
I have Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and ipad2.
I have a lot of calendar entries in Outlook which I like to see them in iPad. After turning on the sync services, I found that there are duplicate entries in iCal. The duplicate entries only exist for those "all-day event" but no others.
As I have used Calendar since 1998 so there are probably hundred of those duplicates over the time. I just bite the bullet by deleting duplicate entries in the hard way. week by week and entry by entry. Unfortunately, iCal is taking like 30 seconds to
delete two or three entries. So this is not working for me as I do not like to spend days in deleting all those duplicate entries.
I delete all iCal entries, clear the plist file, cache, etc and re-sync again. And duplicate entries come again.
Are there ways to avoid duplicate entries after Outlook sync?
Please help.
Many thanks,
Samuel
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