Comments on: How to sync ical to iphone and other ical users

By: ajm

ajm — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:00:10 +0000

After trying various online “fixes” to get iCal to pick up appt’s that I put in my iPhone, I still have yet to find one that works. The most common recommendation is to back-up iCal, then delete everything, restore it from the backup and then replace calendar info on the iPhone with that from iCal. This hasn’t worked.

Does anyone have a suggestion? Seems like this has been an issue for years…

By: zam

zam — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:47:26 +0000

My primary gripe with Google calendar is that I wonder who at Google is reading my calendar. How can there be any privacy, security with a web based calendar? This is the advantage of iCal or any calendar app that’s based on your own hard drive. Ideally you could sync it with your smartphone, but jesus christ when does this “i want i want it want” shit end?

No matter what newfangled gimmick is introduced, we always want MORE. Just awful.

Think I’ll just print out a weekly format of Google calendar, use a hi-lighter and outline all my appointments. Put in a ‘to-do’ list along the top too. Problem solved, the luddite way no less. LOL

By: sharon

sharon — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:40:08 +0000

Ann, am also having this problem, as are others. This is a known issue. See http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=6791daf5ef644ebf&hl=en

By: ann

ann — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:50:54 +0000

this was how I had my and my husbands calendars for the last 4 years or so and it worked beutifully. Until last week. Our appointments for the following 3 weeks disappeared. ALL OF THEM. Ones I made on my Mac, ones I made on my iPhone 3gs, ones my husband made on his iPhone 4, ones I made on my work laptop, repeating events, dragged and dropped events, single events, etc. I can only assume it’s Google calendar and searchign through Google help I see that this isn’t as uncommon as one would think. I loved the way it worked for us – until it inexplicably stopped working. I can’t have a calendar that randomly deletes appointments. Unfortunatley, when I try to find an alternative, everyone keeps suggesting what I already have. Sigh.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:41:40 +0000

Hello,
very nice description. BUT google does not support calaboration. So it does not work any more. They seem to explain how to do it but not really easy if English is not your first language.

Daniel

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:20:38 +0000

WIll iCal tasks also sync in the same way?

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How to add a google calendar to ical | Macintosh How To — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:01:40 +0000

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By: KNS

KNS — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:11:41 +0000

Reads like an advert Peter Pan….. If thats what it is, you should be a little more tansparent don’t you think…. After much searching, the blog here seems to provide the only workable solution that users are finding to solve the syncing from different sources problem..

By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:46:39 +0000

Hey there, surfing the internet I found another quick, solid and above all cheap solution. It’s an app, called remote calendar. What made me finally choose for this app was that it can sync a variety of calendars with my iphone on the basis of CalDAV. Me and my girlfirend are using ical, while in office we are using outlook. Moreover, some frineds and me are using google for a music project. With remote calendar I have it all in sync. You should look out for it in the app store.I ike the app, because it is an all-in-one-solution.