07:09:26 Synchronizing calendars and To Do items
07:09:26 Getting all calendars and To Do items from Backup Conduit
07:09:54 calendars: 8 added
07:09:54 events: 1988 added
07:09:54 To Do items: 65 added
07:09:54 Getting all calendars and To Do items from iCal
07:10:22 calendars: 4 added
07:10:22 events: 1988 added
07:10:22 To Do items: 65 added
07:10:22 Getting all calendars and To Do items from .Mac
07:11:01 Error Conduit iCal generated exception NSInvalidArgumentException: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value. Can't commit folder .
07:11:01 Error Conduit iCal generated exception NSInvalidArgumentException: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value. Can't commit folder .
07:11:01 Error Conduit iCal generated exception NSInvalidArgumentException: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value. Can't commit folder .
07:11:01 Error Conduit iCal generated exception NSInvalidArgumentException: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value. Can't commit folder .
07:11:04 Applying changes to .Mac
07:11:44 calendars: 8 added
07:11:44 events: 1988 added
07:11:44 To Do items: 65 added
07:11:44 Completed synchronizing calendars and To Do itemsI've tried doing an
iSync > Devices > Reset All Devices... but this doesn't seem to have any effect. Presumably because the Backup Conduit has managed to corrupt itself in some weird and wonderful manner previously unknown to science. I've had a look around inside my ~/Library/ folder and have fixed the obvious problems in some of the iCal plist files, but can't find any indication of my iSync still thinks I have the Palm Backup Conduit still around, so my initial guess might be bogus.Does anyone have any ideas about what's going on here, or where I should be looking to fix things?
Update: Three and a half hours later, we have a solution. If this happens to you take a deep breath, take a backup of your files, and follow the yellow brick road...
- First of all you need to remove the bogus calendar files from ~/Library/Calendars/, they're probably going to be called something along the lines of Untitled.ics. Then you need to remove all references to these non-existent calendars...
- You'll need to manually edit the com.apple.ical.sources plist file in /Library/Application Support/SyncService/LastSync Data/ removing the dictionary nodes for the bogus calendars under both the RegisteredRepositories and SourcesView nodes. You might want to take a backup of the plist file if you aren't that familiar with the Property List Editor that came with the Apple developer tools bundle.
- There will be a number of empty directories in ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Themes which refer to the non-existent calendars and, while I'm not sure it makes a difference, you should probably remove these as well.
- Finally, you're going to have to delete your iSync setup by removing the /Library/Application Support/SyncService/501/ directory along with all its content to get rid of the corrupted backup conduit.
Of course a lot of the above might be cargo cult fixes, you might just want to try deleting the /Library/Application Support/SyncService/501/ directory and contents right at the start. That might be all that's needed to solve things, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that if you don't at least do (1) then the bogus calendars will get added back into the backup conduit again next time you fire up iSync.
As always, your milage may vary...
Thank you very much for having put in all those hours to resolve the problem. I have no experience of editing plists so I followed your short cut and deleted the bogus calendar files in iCal and the 501 folder from SyncService. I am thrilled skinny that iSync now works again after a year of frustration and that I can transfer calendar data between my eMac running 10.3.9 and my Nokia 6600.
ReplyDeleteI posted the above too soon. The shortcut worked once only - then all the bogus calendar files reappeared. So I spent a couple of hours editing the plist. Now, I think, the problem is solved. Thanks for the guidance.
ReplyDeleteI've found there was still a little more work to be done. As well as all of the above steps, I also deleted all of the other numbered folders in SyncService - from 502 to 508 in my case.
ReplyDeleteMy bogus calendars, which may be the original cause of the problems, are still on my eMac's hard drive, in Library>Caches>com.apple.iCal>Indexes and they do seem to reappear in the Library>Calendars folder. I have deleted all 972 of them once again from both of the folders.
Finally, I stop the bogus calendars from interfering with iSync by using the iSync radio buttons to select only the calendars that I want. This may or may not be my final offering. I hope it is.