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Cannot sync Outlook 2007 contacts and calendars with icloud and iphone
Hello knowledgeable ones:
Until last week I was using outlook 2003, an older versions of itunes, and an ipod, and was able to back up my outlook contacts and calender through itunes and right to the ipod, no problem.
Now, however, I have had to upgrade everything so they can handshake correctly. This has meant going to Outlook 2007, the latest itunes, an iphone 5, and the icloud. My entire goal is to have the contacts in outlook match the contacts in both the cloud and the phone.
In using the icloud control on both of these, I now have the following: a variety of calenders in my outlook with names like calender in icloud, home in icloud, and my calender, all in lovely pastel shades. The phone has one calendar with only the occasionally dupes on a given date.
The phone, however, is a disaster, with as many as three dupes of the same name. Looking at Outlook, I have a slew of contacts, some dupes, many that I though i had deleted from outlook. Also two categories of contacts, icloud and my contacts, with sub-directories in each. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that the contacts tab under my contacts was completely blank following a sync to the cloud, only to then find the other five versions, which, of course, I would like to have agree with each other. The icloud interface on line shows dupe contacts as well.
I understand that one person may not have all the answers to all the parts of this; I am on an iphone forum as well, trying to figure it out from that end. I guess the main focus here could be how outlook 2007 backs up to the cloud, and the question I have for everyone all the time, which is which overwrites what? Do changes in outlook appear in the cloud or vice versa? The interface of Outlook is better than that of icloud because you can see the whole listing at once, but if I am forced to do all the editing in the cloud to get this to work I will. `Plus, how to get all the various versions of the various contacts and calenders to agree with each other in Outlook.
Thanks in advance for reading this far and unlocking the secrets for me.