You NO LONGER need to have the Provider addon installed in Thunderbird to have bidirectional Google calendar support. Just the Lightning addon. Google Calendar now supports CalDAV and it’s very easy to enable bidirectional updating of your Google Calendar from within Thunderbird. Follow these instructions, remembering that Sunbird is the actual name of the Thunderbird calender.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#sunbird
Remember, you’ll want to make sure you have the Google calendar box checked in left hand column of the calendar view in Thunderbird to have the Google calendar show. Also, very important. When adding an event from Thunderbird, you must specify which calendar you want the event to show up on. By default, this is set to the “home” calender. Click the drop down to select your Google calendar. This must be done or the event will not sync back to Google Calendar. Also, I set my Lightning calendar refresh to 5 minutes, which allows for faster updating of the calendars.
Labels: gcal, google, lightning, mozilla, sunbird, thunderbird
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Hi AMR
I just been trying this. I cannot however make appointments when offline. Lighting states an error occurred. I can however read my appointments.
Is yours working ok?
Madrunner
By 
, at
1/27/2011 1:06 PM
Hi Madrunner,
As far as I know it is working correctly, although I have not had a need to make appointments offline in several months. When I originally installed this fix I tested it and it did work ok so I wonder if there was an update that broke it. I can't right now but will do a test.
-AMR
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amr, at
1/27/2011 5:15 PM
i still echo chuck, however, and leave you with a word of caution: take every precaution prior to migration to reduce the chance of disaster!
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it applies well for the pending version of blogger (version 3.0, currently called blogger beta). unfortunately, they don't point users to wikipedia (or anywhere), when offering the choice of an upgrade. given the level of activity in the blogger help forum, and the types of problems being reported, combined with the part where account migration is irreversible, i'm content to wait things out for awhile until the dust settles.
i love google and use many google-branded products (gmail, calendar, reader, etc), but i think they've really slipped up with the way they're handling things in this case.
shame on you google!
so what's a blogger to do? hang tight and plan ahead!
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Hi Amr (Amrlion?),
You asked a question that started to pester me last week, after I wrote that latest series of posts.
Please contact me by email or IM, I think your situation is not unique, and I think we may have to convince Blogger of that.
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12/16/2006 10:37 AM
