Relationship between iCal & Google Calendar

I'm confused as to how iCal works in tandem with Google Calendar.
There are aspects of both I like, but right now I kind of prefer Google Calendar. I have an Android mobile phone, and would like to sync my laptop calendar with my phone....
Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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In the last week of April iCal/Google calendar sync has quit working. When trying to sync the iCal and the Google. The message I get is that "iCal found the CalDAV server 'www.google.com', but couldn't log in with the user name "XXXXXX". Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then try again. I originally noticed the bouncing iCal icon about April 23-24 and at the time it said that the account [email protected] could not update. I re-entered the information for the account and it still ddid not update. I deleted the account on iCal hoping that a re-enter of all the information would get things up and running and it has not.
I have looked over the available responses to similar problems and none of them have made any difference.
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I also cannot set up the account on the iPad (I was hoping to do so as a work around). Interestingly enough, my wife who subscribes to my Google Calendar as a delegate still gets the updates and things are working for her on her iMac using iCal.

There is a big discussion on this topic on the google calendar forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=7f08411ae09ca8da&hl=en
As I wrote there:
I'm suffering the same, but I have some more information about it. I have multiple delegates, so I have had the "good fortune" to be able to have some of them go bad and still have others to experiment with.
The ones that have gone bad are those where I made a change in iCal and then tried to refresh.
When I made changes on my google calendars I was still able to refresh in iCal and have the change show up. But as soon as I made a change in iCal, the refresh gave that error message.
Also, I just downloaded the newest OS (OS 5) for my iPod touch (gen. 3). That was yesterday afternoon.. and yesterday evening is when I first noticed this problem. I can't imagine it's simply coincidence.
I just discovered one more thing. Even the calendars that don't work both ways continue to work one way; changes made on Google Calendar continue to show up in iCal, even though the error message shows up that it can't contact the server or has the wrong address. It's almost like the relationship has turned into "subscriptions" rather than "delegates".
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ICal - google calendar no SMS or Message with sound

Hello,
few weeks ago I found that I could not add "Message with sound" alert to my iCal's Google calendar which brings me to no SMS alerts.
Is it anything wrong with my iCal, Google calendars (I can add Message with sound to iCloud calendars) or it is something Apple/Google recently changed?
If I add Message with sound alert using iCal - it automatically disappears. However, if I add SMS alert on Google side I have SMS alerts even if it does not reflect anyhow on the corresponding iCal entry.

There is a big discussion on this topic on the google calendar forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=7f08411ae09ca8da&hl=en
As I wrote there:
I'm suffering the same, but I have some more information about it. I have multiple delegates, so I have had the "good fortune" to be able to have some of them go bad and still have others to experiment with.
The ones that have gone bad are those where I made a change in iCal and then tried to refresh.
When I made changes on my google calendars I was still able to refresh in iCal and have the change show up. But as soon as I made a change in iCal, the refresh gave that error message.
Also, I just downloaded the newest OS (OS 5) for my iPod touch (gen. 3). That was yesterday afternoon.. and yesterday evening is when I first noticed this problem. I can't imagine it's simply coincidence.
I just discovered one more thing. Even the calendars that don't work both ways continue to work one way; changes made on Google Calendar continue to show up in iCal, even though the error message shows up that it can't contact the server or has the wrong address. It's almost like the relationship has turned into "subscriptions" rather than "delegates".
I have restarted my iMac and repaired permissions with no success.
iMac running 10.6.8
Accessing Google Calendar with Safari.

ICal & Google calendar

Hello,
I read on this discussion about people trying to get ical & google calendars subscribing to each other. I tried what was suggested.
In ical I copied and pasted the address in the subscribe box. The address I wanted starts with "https." Ical responds with it doesn't recognize addresses that start with "https." Why not? Does anyone know why? Is there a way around this?
Thanks!

Update:
I think I've got a solution I can live with for getting my Toodledo tasks into my iCal calendar. First of all, I turned on Toodledo calendar subscription and subscribed to the event calendar (Tasks with a date) in iCal.
It's a one-way sync from Toodledo to iCal, but if you want to move the events over to a local calendar in iCal you can shuffle them around. The iCal events keep the url of the task, so you can easily jump to the task in Toodledo to mark it complete or change details. If you create a local calendar, you can copy the event from the Toodledo subscript calendar, highlight the local calendar, right click back on the calendar and select paste. Also, you can use the following Applecript to copy over the events from the Toodledo iCal calendar to your local iCal calendar:
iCal: Duplicate/Move items between calendars
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110110144312255
Each time you run the duplicate/move script you build up duplicate items in your local calendar, but you can run this script to cut out the dupes:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051217000214536&lsrc=osxh
or http://www.nhoj.co.uk/icaldupedeleter
If you turn on the script menu (in Applescript Editor settings), and drop these in User/Library/Scripts/Applications/iCal (create if needed), they are accessible from iCal with a click of the mouse. Also, you can edit the scripts to go directly to the "Toodledo iCal" and "Local Toodledo" calendars so the scripts won't prompt you each time.
Good luck & post back with an update if you get it working how you like it!
Cheers

Strange errors with iCal - Google calendar syncing.

I use iCal and have it sync to my Google calendar. Recently, when creating a new event, the default alert has been coming up as a random number of minutes (eg. 1540, 1100) before the event. It used to just default to 15mins before the event and you could change the alert easily to something else. Now, when I try to change this strange large number it reverts back to how it started as soon as iCal syncs with google.
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If I hadn't been using iCal/Google Calendar for over 18 months, with reminders from both systems playing nicely over that period, I'd happily agree with you. The issue with Reminders only began (for me, at least) in February this year. I agree that there's potential for conflict, and maybe both sets of developers finally threw in the towel. This is a pity, because I like both systems, but I feel slightly irritated at being effectively told by Google or Apple that I have to choose sides.

Blackberry, iCal, Google Calendar: Synchronisation help.

Hi,
I want to be able to synchronise my appointments and engagements between Google Calendar, iCal and my Blackberry Calendar application. So far, I've been able to achieve either iCal to Google or Blackberry to iCal, but not all three.
The problem I have is that Google Calendars only synchronises from the "Google" Calendar on iCal, and that the BB Calendars application needs a calendar to be created under the section "On My Mac" on iCal to be able to sync. The long and short of it is that BB syncs to one calendar on iCal, Google syncs out of another and I can't get the two to line up or consolidate automatically. Is there any way I can set iCal to consolidate all calendars into one automatically, or get the BB to synchronise to the Google calendar, possibly by fooling it into thinking it is under the "On My Mac" section?
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Google and iCal will sync with no problems
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#ical
Then use this software to sync with your Blackberry
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#ical

ICal Google Calendar Subscription not displaying

Hi guys,
I've recently added two different google calendars by creating subscriptions. Both calendars appeared to be added correctly as all of the calendar description is correct and they appear under the subscriptions bar. I can only view them on my iphone via mobile me.
My problem is this: I can see one of the calendars just fine, but the other one isn't visible to me despite all of the information being present in the calendar information tab. Do you have any ideas why this calendar isn't visible? When I make it a delegate calendar it is visible, but neither of the calendars I added is my principle google calendar. I would much rather have a calendar as a subscription tied into mobile me rather than a delegate calendar. Thanks!

i seem to have the same problem, can you tell me where you set those default settings? in ical ? or google calendar? thanks for help ....

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I use iCal to update my events to my Google calendar (using CalDAV) and then use iTunes to update my iPod touch. But the problem is that, the timings from the google calendar is all messed up. The other calendars (the default ones or the ones created within iCal) seem to be okay! Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
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ICal + Google Calendar: I can't see iCal events on Google Calendar...

Hi all
Two partners and myself have started a small business, and we need to be aware of each other's schedules in order to run it successfully, so we have decided to give Google Calendars a bash.
I've added my Google account to iCal so now when I add an event to Google Calendars it shows up in iCal, but not vice versa: in other words, if all my iCal events don't show up in Google Calendars.
I've researched the issues, follow all the steps, etc. but I still can't seem to fix this... Am I doing something wrong?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

My understanding is that iCal will not send data to gCal. The forums suggest that the only way to do this at present is to hook up an iPhone to gCal, which does allow a two-way exchange. gCal then sends to iCal. To me, that means that you cannot make entries on your Mac iCal and have them replicated in gCal. So your Mac calendar is effectively 'read-only', and all entries have to be made on an iPhone or on gCal. I'm not sure, but I suspealso that the only way to get your Mac updated is via gCal; possibly synching phone to Mac via iTunes will result in duplicate entries.
As I understand gCal, you have to be online to access it, which is no good if you are on the road (or visiting your mother!). I'm not sure how MobileMe comes into this either; I'm still experimenting and either I get no calendars or multiple duplicate entries!

ICal, Google Calendar, syncing problems and duplicate entries

Hi everyone:
I could use some help. Oy.
At work, we use Google calendar, and that hosts my appointments. I find the Google web-interface impossible, and would like to use iCal to access the data on the Google servers. I have no problem doing that with iOS--my iPhone and iPad manage to sync up fine, and syncing works in both directions; i can add and delete either on Google or on the iOS devices and everything is fine.
But on my desktop machine, I have problems of two sorts. First, once I follow the steps to add a calendar, the syncing seems broken; I can add and delete from the Google web interface, but nothing deleted from the desktop gets passed to Google. Second, I have many duplicate entries that show up on my desktop and some very old appointments that no longer should be on the calendar show up out of no where.
What I'd love to do is a full reboot, eliminating all calendar data everywhere (except on the Google servers, of course, where the work stuff is stored) and start from scratch. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance--
Roger

Keith Murlless wrote:
My issue is that when I follow directions and go to iCal/prefs/accounts, and click the "add" button.... I don't get (anything). No pop-up windows in which to enter my google account information.
Have you tried rebooted your Mac? (Not needed often, so we Mac users often forget to try this. ) Are you logged on with an admin account or a standard account? (Or one with Parental Controls enabled.)
Sometimes I'll find the dialog window "behind" my other windows. Try not to click or move your mouse after you click the plus button. Or try moving windows around or minimizing them so that any windows that are hidden behind other windows are then shown. (In fact try closing all apps and Finder windows to reduce the possibility of this issue in the first place.)
(BTW, your question really is separate from the original question, since the OP already has their Google account added to iCal and you are having trouble adding the account. In the future you'll want to start your own thread so that you can also mark posts answered or helpful.)

Syncing iCal+Google Calendar+MobileMe: Please Help

I set up the syncing through CalDav but in iCal it creates a new calendar (which is the Google Calendar). Would I have to delete my original calendar called "Home" and just make the Google Calendar (in iCal) my main calendar? Does it do a good job of syncing both ways? Also, if I do this, does it also sync through MobileMe?
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I have the same issue.I have been using Google Cal for a while and we sync all family stuff on it. Now that I moved to an iPhone, I got it to sync easily to the phone's Calendar app which is virtually the iCal from the MacBook. I have been trying to get my MobileMe account to sync with the calendar from the phone and it will not. I spent about 1 1/2 hours with Apple's chat service last night trying to sort it out. It doesn't work. All the right toggles and buttons are at the right sport but MobileMe simply won't communicate with the phone's calendar. The Apple guy wonders if it's because it's a 3way sync instead of the same (iCal) syncing in different areas.
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I can get my Google Calendar to appear in my iCal...but not the other way around...UNLESS I drag a specific event to my Google Calendar in the left hand column of iCal. But I think it goes without saying that it makes no sense to only want a single event to sync. Is there a way to sync my entire "home" or "work" calendar to my Google Calendar?
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The only way I'm aware of to sync google and iCal "both ways" is to simply use the synced google calendars as your primary calendars. So basically, start with an empty iCal and sync it to your google calendar. Make sure you sync ALL of your calendars in google, not just the default calendar. Then go to the left hand column in iCal and disable (uncheck) the default iCal calendars so they won't show up. So now when you want to add new events to iCal, use one of the synced google calendars to do it. Basically you can just "pretend" that the synced google calendars are your iCal calendars and you're all set. They will sync both ways.

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I have an iPhone 3g 2.1.... i am running the most recent version of Mac OSX and i have the newest iCal installed on my mac... My google calendar syncs with iCal through CalDAV. I also have Mobileme and it syncs with iCal. I want to be able to have a sync between iCal,Google Calendars and iPhone. I thought this would work with Mobileme.When i set up my calendar and google calendar it creates a different calendar.... I need the same calendar synced between all three..

dgalvan123 wrote:
I use nuevasync to sync my google calendar to my iphone. It is free and uses a microsoft exchange server format to automatically sync your phone calendar with your google calendar over the air.
IE: you don't have to sync your iphone with your computer. Instead, when you edit or add an event in your google calendar it will automatically update your iphone's calendar over the cell network, without you doing anything. Also, if you add or edit an event on your iphone's calendar, it will automatically update your google calendar as well. That way, you don't have to mess with ical. Just use google calendar and your iphone's calendar.
Since you've already got your iCal synching with your google calendar via CalDAV, your iCal will come along for the ride.
Thus, you can do all this for free, without mobileme, and without even having to plug your iphone into your computer to synch it.
Go to this website to check out Nuevasync. http://www.nuevasync.com/ You have to sign up for a free account, but it doesn't take long and they won't spam you or anything. Then go to "device setup instructions" and It will tell you how to set it up on your iphone. I've been using it for about 3 months now and it works great. (I don't work for them or anything, just love their service!)
dgalvan123 wrote:
I use nuevasync to sync my google calendar to my iphone. It is free and uses a microsoft exchange server format to automatically sync your phone calendar with your google calendar over the air.
IE: you don't have to sync your iphone with your computer. Instead, when you edit or add an event in your google calendar it will automatically update your iphone's calendar over the cell network, without you doing anything. Also, if you add or edit an event on your iphone's calendar, it will automatically update your google calendar as well. That way, you don't have to mess with ical. Just use google calendar and your iphone's calendar.
Since you've already got your iCal synching with your google calendar via CalDAV, your iCal will come along for the ride.
Thus, you can do all this for free, without mobileme, and without even having to plug your iphone into your computer to synch it.
Go to this website to check out Nuevasync. http://www.nuevasync.com/ You have to sign up for a free account, but it doesn't take long and they won't spam you or anything. Then go to "device setup instructions" and It will tell you how to set it up on your iphone. I've been using it for about 3 months now and it works great. (I don't work for them or anything, just love their service!)
I've considered using NuevaSync, but it looks like it will use my gmail contacts instead of address book? Is this true? I'd prefer to keep the address book.
Honestly, If I was able to edit calendars that I have synced with iCal from Google through CalDav(CalDev?) I'd be fine, (Right now iCal syncs with Google and my iPhone synce with iCal), but when I add an event on the iPhone, it doesn't allow me to edit any of the synced calendars. I can only edit a separate, unsynced calendar. Does anyone have any idea how to edit a synced calendar?

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Hi 805629,
I don't have the exact answers to your questions... but some extra details might help others.
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Hi
I just received this email from google regarding the use of google calendar sync software for microsoft outlook:
Important Announcement about Google Calendar Sync
Almost two years ago, we announced that we had ended support for Google Calendar Sync.
Starting on
1 August 2014, this app will no longer sync events between your Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
You can continue to access all of your Google Calendar events at
calendar.google.com or
on your mobile devices. Follow
these instructions to uninstall Google Calendar Sync from your computer.
- The Calendar Team
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Hi,
Do you have an Gmail account configured in Outlook used for mail, contact and calendar managing?
The announcement indicates the Google Calendar Sync can’t be used to sync your Outlook calendar (and contacts) with Gmail. If you don't use Gmail for email but need to sync Outlook Calendar with a smartphone, we can consider to user Outlook.com account to
sync calendar. Here is an reference about sync calendar and contacts using Outlook.com:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olc-hotmail/sync-calendar-contacts-using-outlook-com/
If you want to sync Google calendar to Outlook, we can also find any third-party tools to achieve it:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync-outlook/using-google-calendar-sync-utility-outlook/
Note: Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. The sites are not controlled by Microsoft. Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. Please
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