Microsoft KB Archive/128369

= PC WSPlus: Duplicate Appointments in Calendar (.CAL) File =

Article ID: 128369

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0a

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This article was previously published under Q128369



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SYMPTOMS
Duplicate appointments may start appear in the Schedule+ user's calendar file. This can occur in both the Server calendar file (MAILDATA\CAL\HEXID.CAL) or Off-Line calendar file (LocalPath=C:\ \USERNAME.CAL parameter in the SCHDPLUS.INI file).



RESOLUTION
 From the Windows directory, open the user's SCHDPLUS.INI file.  Under the [Microsoft Schedule+] heading, add the following line: StartupOffline=1  Save the changes and close the SCHDPLUS.INI file. Start Schedule+. Delete the duplicate appointments from the local file. From the File menu, select Export Appointments. Export the user's calendar file information into a USERNAME.SCH file.</li> Delete or rename the user's local (C:\ \username.cal) and Server's MAILDATA\CAL\HEXID.CAL calendar copies.</li></ol>

NOTE: A user's online calendar file is not named with the same eight- digit ID number as the user's mail message file (.MMF), nor is it named with the user's name for security reasons. You can use either the MVCAL or the DUMPKEY utility to locate a specific user's online calendar file.

Using MVCAL.EXE
This utility will find the calendar file for the user name specified, and rename it to .BAD. After the calendar file is renamed, a new file will be created the next time the user signs in. This new calendar file will be created from the user's local calendar file.

To use this utility, from where MVCAL.EXE is stored, type:

mvcal [-d -p ]

where:

is the user with the corrupt calendar file.

is the path to the Mail database (the default is M).

is the password for the Schedule+ Administrator (not the Mail Administrator).

Using DUMPKEY.EXE
To use this utility, use the following MS-DOS command to copy the DUMPKEY.EXE file to the CAL directory of the postoffice (this assumes that the Mail database is located on drive M): <pre class="fixed_text">copy dumpkey.exe m:\cal\dumpkey.exe From the MAILDATA\CAL directory, type:

dumpkey schedule.key > calfiles.txt

(This will redirect the output to a file called CALFILES.TXT for easy viewing.)
 * 1) Have the user login to Schedule+. This will create new server and local calendar files.
 * 2) From the File menu, select Import Appointments. Import the appointments from the USERNAME.SCH file created in step 6.

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MORE INFORMATION
When a user makes a change to the local calendar file, the change is copied to the user's calendar file on the server when logging onto the server during the synchronization process. The complete server calendar file is then copied down to the local file.

NOTE: If the users manually copy the local file up to the server, the calendar file synchronization process can get into an endless loop, starting the duplication of appointments.

If the network operating system is Novell, ensure that users have FileScan rights to MAILDATA\CAL. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

103901 PC Adm: Minimum NetWare Trustee Assignments for Mail Database

Additional query words: schedule plus 1.00 1.00a duplicate appointment

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