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The syncing setup is still pretty complex and everytime I change something big problems arise.

Now I changed the subscribed calendars address in iCal and on the iPhone. But now not all tasks appear in iCal. Some appear and are updated fine when I change e.g. the due date in OF. But some have a due date but don't show in iCal.

I tried deleting everything OF-related on the server to get a clean new sync but still only a couple of my items show up in iCal.

Any suggestion what I could have done wrong, or could change, to improve this?

Currently using this URL
https://webdav.mydrive.ch

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Update: Is it possible, that calendar export only exports two weeks worth of actions?

That might be, but then that system was changed. Before I could sync all due actions (that's why it's called export due dates).

I'd like to hear some official statement from OF about this why and with which version at which date this was changed.

Sorry, but that f*cks up my whole setup. I'm relying on this system and now I can't plan further than two weeks or what?

WTF?

[Brian]

Sorry for the confusion, FatalError - the calendar notification export is intended to help folks get reminders/notifications on their non-Apple smartphones. It's always exported items with due dates that in the next 14 days to the calendar database.

Maybe you were previously using the iCal to-do sync, under the File menu? That's a separate feature, but it works similarly to what it sounds like you're remembering...

[whpalmer4]

No, the calendar notifications for due tasks sync has always done about 2 weeks worth of events.

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I'm pretty sure that I'm causing some confusing here and I apologize for not expressing clrealy enough what I intend to do.

Sync between iPhone & Mac works. But what I additionally need is a subscribed calendar which loads all due dates into ical. I had that setup perfectly under mydrive. then I switched to omnisync had some issues in general with time-outs and crashes which is why I switched back to mydrive.

since that I have the problem that in my subscribed calendar in ical I only see the due dates for the next 14-days. If that really is limited to 14-days, then

a) my memory plays bad tricks on me. I could swear I had due dates longer than 14 days in the future. :P
b) I don't see the point of that limitation

It's not much data traffic. Why not make it a month (that's not an insane amount of time to know the due dates for). Or even 2 or 3 months. I could live without having due dates from 2015 in my ical, but even if an important project is due in six months I'd still would like to see that in my subscribed calendar in iCal.

Am I crazy? Or is that a strange use-case scenario? For me that is perfect. I don't always want to start up OF to see what's next and having due-dates integrated in my iCal then on my jailbroken iPhone I can already see them showing up on the lock screen, which shows me all upcoming calendar items.

FYI: I am not refering to to-do sync with ical to-do list.


oh, and thanks for your patience with a somewhat difficult customer ;)

[Brian]

The calendar export feature was implemented in the pre-iOS 4 era as a way for folks to get pop-up alerts on their iPhones. You'd export the reminders to a calendar file, then have the calendar app on the phone subscribe to that file so it could pop up the alarms at the appropriate time.

The Mac app added the feature later, but it was initially designed with iPhones in mind.

In other posts here, you'll see folks that don't want to sync every day, or even every week; the two-week limit is intended to help those folks, while still allowing them to get the reminders if they want. We didn't want to go out too far, though, because that could cause sync times to grow too much. Exporting every item in the database that had a due date attached could have that effect.

[Brian]

Addendum - You're correct; the exported file isn't a huge amount of data. Limiting factors have more to do with the time and memory it takes to do the additional work on top of the other work we do during a sync.

Oh, and no need to apologize! Questions are good. :-)