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Why do some event titles have the calendar name appended in [brackets]?

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Why do some event titles have the calendar name appended in [brackets]?

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You can schedule meetings with others by adding Attendees to an event and sending meeting invitations via email. This is a handy way to invite people to meetings but it can result in duplicate events appearing on a user’s calendar when creating meetings on shared calendars. The original event on the shared calendar will get synced to the user’s calendar via BusySync, and the event will get added to the user’s calendar when they accept the meeting invitation received via email. The duplicate meetings are bad enough, but what’s worse is that Sync Services considers two events on your calendar with the same name and same start time to be a conflict. The Conflict Resolver will appear, and force you to resolve the conflict by choosing one of the events to keep and one to delete. This is a nuisance and can lead to data loss and frustration. To circumvent this problem, BusySync will automatically append the calendar name in [brackets] to the title of a meeting on a subscribed calendar. That w

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