Hi,
I have downloaded the new M/Lion software on my mac and have my iphone/ipad etc all working well and syncing, however i cannot get my hotmail calendar to sync with my ical on my mac desktop?
Icloud is working for notes and mail but I cant figure out why the calendar wont sync.
On the setting its shows my gmail calendar as avaliable to sync just not my hotmail one.
Any help greatly apprieciated.
thanks.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Sorry simongoju, but iCloud has noting to do with hotmail. You would have to check Microsofts support pages to get instructions for syncing your hotmail calendar with your iOS and OSX devices
I have solved this problem after HOURS and HOURS of reading posts. Here is the solution that works:
It can be found here: itsolutionsblog.net/how-to-synchronize-hotmail-calendar-with-your-mac
But, in case it's gone, here's what worked for me...
Go into outlook (hotmail) calendar and push "share" then choose the option to send a View only Link. Copy the middle one, which has (ICS) in parentheses and save it somewhere. On your mac, go to Calendar and subscribe. Wnter a name for your calendar and then enter the URL you copied from hotmail, substituting "http" for "webcals" Choos how often you want it it to refresh, what alerts you want, then enter and the calendar from hotmail will appear on your Mac!
This solved my problem. I only needed to change webcals to https. But maybe I did someting wrong. Works anyhow. Kudos to EH99
Thanks!! EH99 and jimZon. It worked like a charm.!
This worked like a charm!
Thanks so much for the help
Matty H
@EH99 - Many thanks - worked-a-treat 🙂 Happy Camper 🙂
@EH99 - Was so pleased to read your post and it all worked except for the fact that in Ical all appointments just show busy - can't see the details. What might I have done wrong? Thanks in advance for your help or anyone else's..
It sound like a problem with sharing in outlook. When you're sharing a calendar, you have a place where you have to indicate whether you just want to share free/busy times or the details of meetings etc with the other person. You may not have selected "details". Id go back into Outlook and check this. Hope that helps.
Great thanks - it worked! Not sure what I did yesterday but now seeing everything. :-)
Worked a treat too
Sadly seem to have another issue now :-( It's not updating/synching. If anyone has an idea of why? Auto refresh is activated. Thanks again
Make sure you're syncing your calendars through iCloud. Go to iCloud in settings and make sure calendar is green. Then go to mail, contacts, calendars etc in settings. Under Calendars, go to Default calendar. Depending on how many calendars you're synching, you'll see them under hotmail and then fewer under iCloud. Make sure your primary calendar is checked as default in iCloud. That should insure they sync. Also make sure you have chosen "synch events one month back" from the Sync options also under Calendars. Hope that helps.
Thank you so much again.. not to brill using iCloud but did it so much appreciated!
This doesnt seem to work for me. I have followed the instructions but my iCal doesnt update. I have an icon that looks like a radio signal next to the new subscription in calendar. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
**got it to work now, just had the wrong calendar link 🙂
You're a beautiful person EH99! thank you!
Hotmail calendar on my mac
