I posted the following on the Apple Discussion groups:
I want to do something that apparently few others do. I have 6 calendars in iCal. (In iCal use them as other calendars use categories.) So, I have Personal, Birthdays, Meetings, School, etc.No answers yet.
I would like to publish them to Google Calendars. I want to use iCal (and the Calendar in my iPod touch) as my primary calendar. I want it mirrored on Google.
I looked at the “Life Hacker” blog pointed to in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8360980�. There was one comment from someone who wanted to do what I want to do. The instructions create 6 (in my case) Google calendars. I don’t want that. I want to publish my iCal calendars to Google.
When I try to just publish Meetings, for example, to Google, I select a Calendar (Meeting) and select publish on a Private Server. I give the URL https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/fred%40avolio.com/user (which is my default calendar on my Google Apps account). I click Publish. The blue progress line goes left to right twice and then…
Publish failed for calendar “Meeting.” Calendar https://fred%40avolio.com@www.google.com/calendar/dav/fred@avolio.com/user/Meeting.ics could not be found.
I have a few calendars I want to publish so I can see them on Google Maps (and so others can), As I said, I want iCal (and Events on my iPod Touch) to be where I create events. I don’t need to sync calendars (except between my Mac and my iPod).
Now, I thought that I could publish directly to Google Calendars. In the mean time, I am publishing to iCal Exchange, run by a a guy running a free calendar sharing service. Publishing there worked flawlessly.
Then, in Google Calendars, I added each calendar I published to iCal Exchange by selecting Add by URL. It works fine. But, I didn’t think I should need an intermediary site. I believe I should be able to publish directly to my Google Calendars.
4 comments:
has anyone replied to your questions? I am currently having the same issue with you and refuse to pass from an intermediate site….
how did you sort out your cals sync?
thanks for your response
I was excited to read Alternatives to MobileMe. The writer seemed to describe a way to do what I want to do: to have my iCal events not only synced with my iPod touch, but also with Google Calendar. Recall, I don’t care if it synchronized with Google Calendar; I just wanted my iCal calendar mirrored there. This article seemed to describe how to sync!. So I tried it and it seemed to work.
I took screen shots along the way, because it really did seem like it was working. Basically, I created calendars on Google Calendar to match mine in iCal, I exported all of them from iCal, an imported them into the related Google Calendars. That worked. Then I synced with my iPod. And I found that unlike the iCal-grounded calendars, I could not edit any Google-based calendars on my iPod. (I could in iCal.)
Showstopper and back to the beginning.
I did get a solution. BusyMac’s BusySync. It is not free, but it is only a one-time $25 purchase to do what I want to do. My iCal calendars easily publish to calendars on Google, and I can share them with my wife (and others).
I had luck syncing iCal with Google Calendars both of my own and all the Google Calendars of my staff using NuevaSync http://www.nuevasync.com/. there are a few issues like one calendar that shows up on my iPhone as both "On my Mac" and shared google calendar but I just don't select that and it's fine.
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