In his long, helpful email, Nik notes:
Just activated iCal synching using the tip on MacOSXHints.com. (Got the tip from your site, thanks!) Works fine. Yes, dates on repeating annual events don’t work right, and I’m pretty sure leap years are at fault. The same thing happens on the PalmOS and has never been a problem for me.
The question is: do I dare and do I dare? hmm… If I do I’ll report the results. Here’s the link to the Mac OS X How To, again.
Update: So I went ahead and did it. Make sure you make backups of your Calendars and the preference file that you are hacking. It worked like a charm when I synced only the 3650. Then I put my .mac space back on line, synced all 3 together (.mac, 12-inch, and 3650) and it went through once with just a few little niggling conflicts, then asked to resync after I picked the 12-inch to be the rod by which the others were to be measured, and then it got about two thirds of the way through the process and hung. I forced iSync to quit, but the little iSync in the menu bar keeps spinning. As a result, every time I tried to restart iSync, it would immediately attempt to continue the sync I had forced to quit. SO now I am using Process Viewer to force the SyncSystem to quit. Re-opening iSync. Resyncing. Stuck at “Getting changes from 3650 (8K Downloaded)…”; there weren’t any changes though. Hmm… More when I figure this out…
2ND UPDATE:Man am I glad I backed up everything. The good news is I now have all my calendars on my 3650. The bad news is I disabled the calendar syncing now and I haven’t been able to sync nicely since I attempted the hack. Right now, I’m running a regular sync just between the computer and .mac. See if everything gets back to groovy. It is taking forever though. The first time through with the calendar syncing between the phone and the 12-inch worked fine, but once I put .mac into the mix it fotzed everything up. Dagnabbit! Anyway several force quits and a few restarts later and I’m in the process of trying to recover everything back to how it was before. iCal launches without any calendars and then loads them after a moment (if there is no syncing going on). I may have to reinstall iSync. It told me the sync database had become corrupted at one point.
Moral of the story: backup backup backup. Other moral of the story: hack this at your own risk.
I’m going to restore everything back to norm and then leave it be until Apple release an update to the software that enables it. DO IT APPLE! DO IT NOW!!!
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