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leojbramble
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When I exported my Yahoo! calendar into my VDX, it converted all of my annually recurring items (e.g. birthdays) into individual stand-alone appointments through to the year 2030. To allow me to add notes, etc. to all occurrences at once, I am now re-scheduling these as recurring appointments.

But can anyone think of an efficient way for me to delete all of the stand-alone appointments? Otherwise, I'm looking at doing 30 deletions for each of the 25 or so items.

I'm pretty sure I can't do it in the VDX, but I thought there might be some application I could dump the data into, sort out the appointments I want to delete, and then re-import. It would have to be a program that would preserve the recurrences AS recurrences, though, once they're imported back into the VDX.

Any thoughts?

In the alternative, is there any shortcut for deleting appointments in the VDX? Right now I have to:
Search for 'Mike's Bday', for example
Click 'OK'
Select the appointment
Select 'Details'
Select 'Delete'
Then search again for the next occurrence

I removed the deletion confirmation feature for now, so at least I cut out that one step.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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declana
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the only solution i can think of is a bit complicated.

first, save your memos, todo and address book as archives. (not calender)

second, remove your batteries and wipe your memory.

third, reimport your memo, todo, address book.

fourth, import your calender from yahoo.

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Leo,

Rather than export from Yahoo! and then import, why not just use TrueSync? It will sync the recurring events from Yahoo!correctly as single events. Once synced to your Visor, you can decide if you want to keep using it or not. Set the TrueSync settings to override the handheld on the first sync and all should be fine...I think

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Sorry, please ignore post.


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leojbramble
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Originally posted by bregent
Leo,

Rather than export from Yahoo! and then import, why not just use TrueSync? It will sync the recurring events from Yahoo!correctly as single events. Once synced to your Visor, you can decide if you want to keep using it or not. Set the TrueSync settings to override the handheld on the first sync and all should be fine...I think

[This message has been edited by bregent (edited 08-02-2000).]



Problem is, I've already deleted the Yahoo! calendar, so I can't re-attempt getting the info from there. I had tried TrueSync originally, and ran into a lot of snags with it that their customer service couldn't help me resolve -- that's why I ended up doing the export/import in the first place.

I wish I could find a hack that allows you to find and delete multiple entries -- that aren't necessarily duplicates -- simultaneously. I thought UnDupe might do it, but their literature has a disclaimer that it only works on 'exact' duplicates... does exact mean only duplicates occuring on the same day/time? Or will it also find and delete the same event taking place on multiple occasions? I don't want to pay the license fee until I know for sure...

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