iPhone: iCal Syncing Issues

Now I can’t blame this issue on iPhone. Let me say this at the beginning. This issue actually started several weeks ago. I had to do a reset on my Motorola SLVR … was having problems. Went to use iSync to re-sync Address Book & iCal. But no matter what did … I could not sync my phone with iCal. Went through a whole litany of steps to try to fix it. Thought it was a problem with particular calendars in iCal. Had had that issue when I first got my SLVR. Nope … nothing I tried worked. So I just left off my calendar dates. That was a drag.

So the first time I went to sync iPhone. Imagine my surprise when iTunes got to syncing my calendar … and it choked. I was getting bizarre errors. Checking the AppleMobileSync log I was seeing this:

2007-07-06 20:45:32.263|AppleMobileSync|568:25198080|SocketStreamHandler.¬
c:_SocketLogCallback| ERROR: SocketRecv (data): error 9: Bad file descriptor
2007-07-06 20:45:32.267|AppleMobileSync|568:25198080|StreamHandler.¬
c:_ReadFunc| ERROR: Error reading data: Can’t read data
2007-07-06 20:45:32.269|AppleMobileSync|568:25198080|DeviceLinkConnection.¬
c:_DLHandlerThreadMessagePortCallback| ERROR: Could not receive message: ‘(null)’

The first thing I did was to back up my iCal, Address Book, SOHO Organizer, SOHO Notes and any other apps I knew that used sync services. I then went to Library/Application Support/Sync Services and trashed the entire folder.

To my amazement … that worked. Hey this is what they pay me the ‘big bucks’ for.