using gmail.com versus me.com for CALENDAR sync?

hi Csound1. thank you.

can i ask you this? if i am going to discontinue my use of an old gmail account or i want to have all my information on a new GMail account am i correct in thinking that i can /export/ all my .ics files while i have EACH ONE of these accounts on one at a time (i /think/ i may actually have information on a me.com and a gmail account) and then IMPORT these ics files into iCal when i have the NEW GMail account ONLY on in iCal?

i mean, if i want to retain data that may have existed on a me.com account and a GMail account can i get it OVER to the new account like this?

sorry if that is confusing but it is a bit of a mess that i would like to clean up....

THANKS

hi CSound can you help me a bit more here please?

so far i have figured out that i need to export the INDIVIDUAL ics files from under each email account. if i export as an archive and select the new email account as enabled with the others disabled - iCal just repopulates my old calendar with the old accounts as well. so what i have done is to export the individual ics files, turned off all the old accounts and then imported the individual calendars.

so some questions:

1. do you know if there is a way to get rid of the CalDav listings in Calendar > Preferences > Accounts? i have like four listed here with 3 being various GMail accounts and one being a me.com account. ALSO, are these basically showing up because i have these email accounts hooked up in MAIL and mail is basically telling calendar that /if/ i wanted to sync these i could?

2. i am getting a "the server responded with an error: the URL https://calendar.google.com/calendar/dav/MyNAME@gmail.com/user///calendar.google.com/calendar/dav/MyNAME@gmail.com/user/ encountered HTTP error 404. make sure the URL is correct. is this something to do with my Gmail account and not having set up a calendar or something? i am feeling like trying to do this through iCal is going about it backwards but i am not sure since i don't understand Gmail very well cause i can't stand the UI.

3. is it possible to go in and DELETE old appointments from the various accounts so i don't get confused in the future? do you think this would be a good idea assuming i can do this to clean things up?

THANKS

hey man. can i take these one by one?

do you know how i get to a google calendar? i feel like an idiot but i can't tell the difference between an "old" google account and now i seem to get logged into some newfangled google + UI which is making me crazy.

also, on the URL error. i am getting this "in" iCal and i am thinking that Google does not have a calendar set up for some reason. do you know what i mean? i mean, the fact that i /imported/ data into iCal from my other accounts - and into my new GMail address listed in iCal doesn't necessarily mean that i already have a Google Calendar. i mean, i don't know if i have a google calendar and the fact that i am putting this info into a "synced" GMail address while in iCal seems a bit weird.

ALSO, i am getting a error from the link you mentioned. it seems to indicate that the URL is not a iCLOUD CALENDAR link which is in fact the case since i am getting an error in iCal about the GOOGLE CALENDAR address.

i feel like a total dope so i am hoping you can bail me out on this one...