repeating tasks are not correctly transferred to Android
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:27 pm
Greetings,
I'm using Sunbird/Calendar (Calendar v1.0b3pre) portable on my Win7 64bit and synchronize with my HTC Android v4.0.3 using BirdieSync v2.4.5.2.
On my Android I use "aCalendar+", which just gives another graphical frontend to the builtin calendar-app.
"aCalendar+" uses the same DB as the calendar-app on Android.
On my Desktop (Sunbird/Calendar) I created three repeated task, one of them "every wednesday", repeated until 2014/02/07,
the other two "every friday", one starting at 08:15, the other one at 17:00, repeated until 2014/02/07 as well.
(I smudged personal information from the screenshot.)
After Synchronization, I find all the 3 task on my Android as expected...
But I get 3 additional tasks, that repeat every day!
The additional tasks don't have any name/description and the starting-times... two of them do at least have the starting-times of the original tasks (08:15 and 15:30), the third one has 08:15 as well, though the third original task would actually be 17:00.
I marked the correct tasks with an orange "X" in the screenshot.
All other tasks are not present in Sunbird/Calendar.
After deleting them from the Android-Calendar and re-syncing (sync-direction only Desktop -> Android!) those daily "ghost-tasks" are recreated.
I tried completely deleting the calendars from both Sunbird/Calendar and Android and reconfigure them on the Desktop... after Sync, it looks the same.
Taking a look at the built-in Android-Calendar gives the same result ( both apps use the same DB on Android) ... just optically even more confusing.
Other tasks that appear only once, are sync-ed correctly... so I think there might be a flaw in the interpretation of "special" task-attributes regarding repetition.
Can anyone verify this or similar behaviour?
Is there a workaround or even a cure?
Best Regards.
I'm using Sunbird/Calendar (Calendar v1.0b3pre) portable on my Win7 64bit and synchronize with my HTC Android v4.0.3 using BirdieSync v2.4.5.2.
On my Android I use "aCalendar+", which just gives another graphical frontend to the builtin calendar-app.
"aCalendar+" uses the same DB as the calendar-app on Android.
On my Desktop (Sunbird/Calendar) I created three repeated task, one of them "every wednesday", repeated until 2014/02/07,
the other two "every friday", one starting at 08:15, the other one at 17:00, repeated until 2014/02/07 as well.
(I smudged personal information from the screenshot.)
After Synchronization, I find all the 3 task on my Android as expected...
But I get 3 additional tasks, that repeat every day!
The additional tasks don't have any name/description and the starting-times... two of them do at least have the starting-times of the original tasks (08:15 and 15:30), the third one has 08:15 as well, though the third original task would actually be 17:00.
I marked the correct tasks with an orange "X" in the screenshot.
All other tasks are not present in Sunbird/Calendar.
After deleting them from the Android-Calendar and re-syncing (sync-direction only Desktop -> Android!) those daily "ghost-tasks" are recreated.
I tried completely deleting the calendars from both Sunbird/Calendar and Android and reconfigure them on the Desktop... after Sync, it looks the same.
Taking a look at the built-in Android-Calendar gives the same result ( both apps use the same DB on Android) ... just optically even more confusing.
Other tasks that appear only once, are sync-ed correctly... so I think there might be a flaw in the interpretation of "special" task-attributes regarding repetition.
Can anyone verify this or similar behaviour?
Is there a workaround or even a cure?
Best Regards.