Publish iCal to Google Calendar (Leopard)

Synchronize Google Calendar and Apple iCal. Share calendars between multiple Macs. Share calendars with your coworkers, family, and friends. And while you're at it, connect Google Calendar to your iPod, mobile phone, and other devices.


http://spanningsync.com/

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Samantha S.

Unfortunately I and someone else at my company that tried Spanning Sync (paying for a year's subscription) had very unpleasant problems with data loss and event corruption (e.g., multiple events). Their support staff was helpful and responsive, but in the end we decided it was just too risky. If we could do sync to Google calendar with Leopard's iCal alone that would be great...assuming it also didn't have problems.

Try using the private iCal URL for your calendar. It can be found by opening google calendar (in a web browser of course), then click "Settings" in the top right. Choose "Calendars" from the center of the page, under "Calendar Settings". Click on the calendar name, like home, work etc. Then choose the green 'iCal" icon next to private address. This functions as your see all, do all URL which should not be shared.

This may help. I am curious to see if this works for you, as I have not loaded Leopard yet :")

Dan O

You cannot edit a calendar you subsribe to in ical, even in leopard. Subscribed calendars are read only.

Sam's suggestion is the only one that will work. I use spanning sync myself for all my calendars - yes there have been issues, especially from one OSX upgrade to another, but their support staff is usually very responsive and efficient.

The ability to share calendars with others in ical and fully edit both ways will only work if you work off of the latest OSX Server or some other compliant Caldev server that will manage your calendar.

Hope this helps

Anyone try Plaxo? It has built in sync w/ iCal and built in sync w/ google calendar. I'm trying it, but am having leopard issues. At least I suspect that is the case as I've been reading about some flaws in Sync Services that are messing up sync w/ palm os. Been fighting that too. Anyway, free version of Plaxo seems it might handle it.

I tried Spanning Sync but decided against it. The synchronization with Google Calendar worked well enough but upon installing Spanning Sync, my iCal suddenly became unstable. If I tried to drag an event to an new day or otherwise edit an existing event, iCal would crash. This problem disappeared after removing Spanning Sync.

There are at least two other options, one free (and the other for a nominal charge (when compared to Spanning Sync's annual subscription fee.) I have yet to try either and cannot comment on them other to say that the free one is a java-based file translation application and requires a small amount of UNIX skill.

Free: http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html
Small fee and little or no user support: http://www.macness.com

I can confirm that GCALDaemon works well on 10.4.11. I am now successfully syncing Entourage <-> iCal <-> Gcal <-> Outlook 2003.

Even nicer is the fact that my .Mac syncing still works too - which means that my wife gets my calendar automatically.

The set up for GCALDaemon is a bit tricky - but the price is right - and the functionality (so far) works as advertised. The best bet is to start with a clean ical calendar (if you can).

If you want a simpler solution, you could try BusySync (which costs $20 USD).

I'm considering this: http://www.busymac.com/

Says it syncs to Gcal as well as w/ other Mac on a LAN.

Anyone here try it?