Google Calendar Syncing with iCal in Snow Leopard

In this video I demo how I sync my google calendar with iCal in Snow Leopard. Its super simple but it has changed from leopard. Stay tuned for the next video on how to sync your google calendar with your iPhone using exchange or CalDAV.

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[JordanTheCheapGeek]

It appears that to sync multiple calendars you would need to use another google account.

[lavonburch]

doesn't work for me

[JordanTheCheapGeek]

What problems are you having, I would be happy to help?

[sfg98765]

Thank you so much!

[sajam500]

Can you sync various ical colored calendars with Android/Google Calendar with Lion? I know you can add Google Accounts to ical...and technically I can sync and get t hints to show up but I can't figure out how to still use my individual colored calendars (i.e. blue for work; red for casual etc). In ical, for ADD ACCOUNT< I was told to leave it as AUTOMATIC, and just add my gmail account and password

[Antonwannabe]

@ Jordan: Thanks for the great tutorial, but I have a problem. When I upload my .ics-file Google Calendar says that my file cannot be uploaded, since I don't have the enough access to the calendar. How do I fix this? And another question: Am I supposed to sync Ical with Google Calendar every day? Thanks! :)

[cinemarules]

Ok, thanks to this video I finally managed to get iCal appointments into my google calendar (before that it only worked one way) - but only if I mark the event as a google calendar event. Whcih means I can no longer use different colours.

Hm :-/ It was kind of useful to distinguish between work and private stuff and deadlines with different colours.

Still - one step closer to using a droid phone with an apple mac book

Thanks!

[jameskorova]

Got my Android singing with my iCal. Really good tutorial.

[1munman]

Jordan

I keep getting a request error on my ical when my calendars refresh. It is not the same calendar everytime. It seems to move from one calendar to another. ANy answers

[TheEelBlaster]

@JordanTheCheapGeek I am having a problem with syncing 3 way with my ical/google calendar/android phone, and I am having some problems with CalDAV. when I sign in with caldav on ical it works perfectly for either a few seconds or a few days, it is totally random, then it will say that the username or password is incorrect. Any ideas? Would it help if I posted a recording of what is happening as a video response to this video? Thanks for any help!!

[Toddleist]

I realize that this video is fairly old but followed your instructions to the T in an attempt to try and sync my iCal calendars to Google calendar. I exported my iCal calendars and then imported them into my Google calendar. I then went back to iCal and created a CalDAV account for my Google calendar. The problem I'm having is when I move an event or create a new event within iCal and I switch over to my Google calendar and hit refresh, nothing changes or shows up. Any thoughts?

[latormor]

Excellent! Brilliant!

[johncpiercy]

Helpful video ... Not sure I need Mobile Me ... now ... thanks