Three weeks later...

Well, it only took 1,452,510.02 seconds, but when I came home last night, I saw that iCal Dupe Deleter had finished deleting all 11,725 duplicates from my calendar.

To be fair, I had only been running iCal Dupe Deleter since Monday, June 9th, so it took two weeks, 3 days. It had been three full weeks though since I've been dealing with this whole calendar snafu.

I went through the calendar, and it seems to have taken out most of the duplicates. Certainly enough so that it won't be an issue to have a few left in there.

Unfortunately, it also seems to have taken out a lot of my birthdays that I have throughout the year. Shoot. Luckily, I haven't synched my iPhone with my computer in 3 weeks, so I still had that to reference birthdays. I just finished plugging in the missing ones, and I *think* I'm ready to go now.

The next step is to sync my iPhone with my computer again. I have decided that I should follow Dick's suggestion, and use iCal as my calendar program now, rather than using Entourage, and syncing that to iCal to sync to my iPhone. There's one too many syncs in there, and clearly, it's not working for me. That's really too bad though, because I really do think that Entourage's calendar is superior to iCal, and so much more robust in it's options. Oh, well.

Anyhow, I need to sync my iPhone now, and tell it to override the calendar that it has with my newly fixed iCal version.

This makes me nervous.

We'll see how it goes.

...and now I'm going to go make a donation to the guy who wrote the iCal Dupe Deleter program. (It's donationware) His program took 2.5 weeks to clear out my calendar mess, but I have no idea how long it would have taken me manually, or even if I would have been able to do it myself.