Sync birthdays from iCal to a Symbian phone

Sep 11, '06 07:30:04AM

Contributed by: chi111y

There is a known bug in iSync which prevents repeating events starting earlier than 1980 from syncing to Symbian OS devices (such as my Nokia N80). Since birthdays entered into the Address Book will often have starting dates prior to 1980, this means they won't show up on your phone. Annoying.

Here's a small AppleScript I wrote to create a copy of the Birthdays auto-calendar in iCal, resetting the start dates of any early birthdays to 1980. If you save the script to ~/Library -> Scripts -> Applications -> iCal, and install the AppleScript menu item, you'll be able to create and update your syncing calendar with ease. All you need then do is select the correct calendar for syncing in iSync.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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