How to sync with iCal

Hi 
I'm having problems syncing my BB Bold 9780 with iCal on a Mac desktop running OSX Lion 10.7.5 with 4GB memory. I created a new writable calendar in iCal, turned off the wireless sync on my BB and tried syncing but get the following error message "There are no writable Calendars available for syncing on this computer. Please launch iCal or Microsoft Entourage and crete a new writable calendar".  
Looks like there are many other people who had similar problems but couldn't quite track the right answer from the various threads. 
Thanks in advance for your help

You can get 2-way synchronization between iCal and google calendar, but you have to start with a google calendar and import that into iCal. You can't sync an existing local iCal calendar with google.
Here's what I would suggest:
1. Export your local iCal calendar as a .ics file.
2. Make a new calendar on google calendars.
3. Upload your .ics file so that it populates your new google calendar with the events from your local iCal calendar (do this via google calendar's web interface).
4. Then use iCal to sync that newly-created google calendar with iCal.
5. Now you can use iCal to edit events in this new google calendar, and they will be synched with the google calendar. You can also edit events using the google calendar web interface, and they will be synched with the version visible in iCal the next time you open iCal or ctrl-click "Refresh" that iCal calendar.
6. You can keep your original local iCal calendar, or delete it, once you know your new setup is doing what you want it to.

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