Sync ical between different account holders on same imac g5

g'day.
I want to be able to sync the events of my ical with my wife who uses a different account on our imac. apple tells me you can't do this. any suggestions greatly appreciated.
thanks.

adam,
Welcome to Apple Discussions!!
(I always wanted to be able to say that to a newcomer but somebody always beat me to it.
The answer to your question depends on how you define "sync".
I have been using a very unique (at least to me) solution for the past 8 months or so involving PHP iCalendar, and publish and subscribe within ical.
I have 9 icals (3 from weather updates at www.project24.info , 1 each for my wife and I at home and at work, and one for birthdays) all sync'd to ical on 3 macs and a windows PC. On my G5 I have 2 other users on the G5 all syncing to the same directory, and using the grouping feature in ical 2.0 all their icals apear as one in ical. Each person who publishes to the directory also can subscribe to the ical of their choice if I allow them, and they can change their info as they wish when they wish.
Also using the group feature my wife (on her iMac g) and I sync our events, each with a writeable calendar that is grouped across the network. We see each others to do lists and events in the same calendar, and can change each other's input as necessary. When we have conflicts we either agree in person or change the times using invitations if I'm out of town or just talk it out . Crazy but it has worked well for us.
On my laptop when I travel I can make a change in ical, and it updates over the internet to the house, updating all icals in the home as they are refreshed from the phpicalendar directory.
Also, I have complete access to all the calendars over the internet for read only viewing when I am not at my PC or Mac but can get to a connection.
All this and I do NOT use a webdav server or .mac
This took me a lot of planning last year, and I was worried when I switched to Tiger and upgraded to ical 2.0 from 1.5, but believe it or not it made my implementatiion even slicker because of the groups feature that finally makes the calendars appear sync'd ( easier demonstrated than described)
Hope this is helpful to you.
Jamy

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