Can't edit Google Calendar events in iCal

Thanks for your response!

When I say I can't edit them, I mean I am not even given the option to edit that event.

Any event I create for that calendar in iCal, I can double click on the event and click the "edit" button on the lower part of the event pop-up window in iCal. But any event that was not actually created in iCal does not have an "edit" button on it's pop-up window. It lets me view the event, and says the event was created by the "Organizer" (who is me), but seems to not recognize that I am the organizer.
When I try to drag the event to a different time on the weekly calendar screen in iCal, I get a pop-up alert that says "Invitation Error: Only the organizer can change this event."

The only thing I've found in both Google Calendar help and iCal help is that iCal needs to be able to recognize me as the organizer by me having my e-mail address in the "me" card in my Address Book on my mac. That makes sense, but it doesn't seem to be working. My e-mail address has been in my "me" address book card since before I started using Calaboration. And, on the events I can't edit in iCal, the organizer is listed as me and has my same e-mail address. I can even open my own address book card directly from that event, and it opens the correct address book card. But I still can't edit the event, which implies to me that iCal still does not recognize me as the organizer.

It's quite annoying.

Both my google e-mail address and my primary e-mail address are in my Google Account personal settings (the link you provided), and my "me" card in Address book, and have been since before I tried to use Calaboration. So, while I agree that not having an e-mail address in the right place sounds like it would be the problem, all my addresses seem to be in the right place.

Thanks for trying!

Yeah, I tried deleting the calendars in iCal and re-synching to them via Calaboration, but the same problem persisted.

I did find the solution after a bit of experimenting, though. To solve it, I basically created a new calendar on Google Calendar, imported all my events from my old google calendar into it, then used Calaboration to sync iCal to the new Google calendar, and now I can edit events in iCal and GCal without problems. I don't actually know what the problem WAS, but this seems to have solved it. Maybe I made my original Google Calendar too long ago and it had some old bad settings I couldn't see? I dunno, but it doesn't matter now.

For those who might have this same problem, here's how I transferred my old Google Calendar events into a new Google Calendar without losing anything: (You actually don't need to delete your old Google Calendar at all if you don't want to, so there's no reason to worry about losing your events.)

1. In GCal, click the "settings" link at the top right of the web page. Then select the "Calendars" tab. Click the "Export My Calendars" link, which should be under your list of calendars, next to the cancel button. This will download a .zip file to your computer, containing all of your google calendars as individual .ics files. Go ahead and unzip them so that the .ics file for the calendar you want to duplicate is sitting in a folder somewhere on your computer.
2. Now In GCal, click on the "Create" link on the lower righthand side of the "My Calendars" box, which is on the lefthand side of the screen.
3. Create a new blank calendar and name it whatever you want. This is the blank calendar into which you will import your old calendar's events.
4. Now, in GCal, click "Add" at the bottom right of the "Other Calendars" box, which is under the "My Calendars" box on the left side of the web page.
5. Select "Import Calendar".
6. Click "Choose File" and browse to the .ics file you want to duplicate on your computer.
7. In the "Choose Calendar" pull-down menu, select the new, blank calendar you made in step 3.
8. Click Import. This may take a few minutes, depending on the number of events you have in your .ics calendar file.
9. Once it's done, look at the calendar to make sure your events all came into your new Google Calendar ok. It should look exactly like the original google calendar, but it will be a different color.
10. NOW, use Calaboration to sync your iCal to the New Calendar you just made in Google Calendar.
11. Once it's done synching, you should be able to edit events in the calendar in iCal.

Check my last post for the solution. Basically involves exporting your GCalendar, clearing events from the GCalendar, then re-importing the events from the exported .ics file.

glad your workaround works for you. . . but I haven't had any problems since I performed my solution in my post above, and it's been several days. You might give it a try.

That's something I didn't try, and is much much simpler than the solution I described above. Thanks for the tip!