iCAL and Google

roderick · #1 June 20th, 2008, 11:15 AM

I installed GCALdaemon to sync iCAL with Google. Everythin went well until I came to this:

2) Put a colored label on all folders in '~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources'.

open ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources

Terminal
********:~ Roody$ open ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources
The files /Users/Roody/Library/Application and /Users/Roody/Support/iCal/Sources do not exist.

So I checked and it doesn't exist indeed. How can I solve this?

Thanks

VirtualTracy · #2 June 20th, 2008, 08:45 PM

Funny, same thing happened to me when I typed that code into Terminal, but the path definitely exists, if you copy/paste the path into Finder ~> Go ~> Go To Folder then you'll be taken there ... ???

Are you using Leopard or Tiger?

For Leopard Users:

GcalDaemon and Leopard

roderick · #3 June 21st, 2008, 03:13 AM

I am using Leopard with iMAC. I tried to go from Go -> Go to Folder, doesn't exist.

I managed to find the calendar folder but nothing with iCal.
/Users/<username>/Library/Calendars/*.*
/Users/<username>/Library/Caches/com.apple.iCal/*.*
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist

so I did all the steps there and started. Here is what it came with a calendar error. It didn't work.

Hint: [sudo] chmod -R 777 /sbin/GCALDaemon/bin/./..
INFO | GCALDaemon V1.0 beta 16 starting...
WARN | Please check the file permissions on the '/sbin/GCALDaemon/work' folder!
Hint: [sudo] chmod -R 777 /sbin/GCALDaemon
INFO | RSS/ATOM feed converter enabled.
INFO | Local time zone is Central European Time.
INFO | HTTP server starting on port 9090...
WARN | Set the 'http.allowed.hostnames' parameter to limit remote access.
INFO | HTTP server started successfully.
INFO | Start listening file /Users/Roody/Library/Calendars/B5FD1C9A-3122-40D3-8D5B-EB9F8936EE20.calendar/corestorage.ics...
INFO | File listener started successfully.
INFO | LDAP server disabled.
INFO | Gmail notifier disabled.
INFO | Sendmail service disabled.
INFO | Mail terminal disabled.

WARN | Received file from Google:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>Fehler im Kalender</title> <-- means calendar error in german

I tried to remove the folder:
pc-69-174:sbin Roody$ rmdir GCALDaemon/
rmdir: GCALDaemon/: Permission denied

Im logged in with the user too.

elander · #4 June 21st, 2008, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roderick

I installed GCALdaemon to sync iCAL with Google. Everythin went well until I came to this:

2) Put a colored label on all folders in '~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources'.

open ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources

Terminal
********:~ Roody$ open ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources
The files /Users/Roody/Library/Application and /Users/Roody/Support/iCal/Sources do not exist.

So I checked and it doesn't exist indeed. How can I solve this?

Thanks

It's not supposed to be two folders called "Application" and "Support" respectively, but one folder called "Application Support"...

roderick · #5 June 21st, 2008, 10:44 AM

I pasted the wrong command, sorry.

pc-69-174:~ Roody$ open ~/Library/'Application Support'/iCal/Sources
The file /Users/Roody/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources does not exist.

The folders does not exist :s

roderick · #6 June 22nd, 2008, 09:01 AM

I can't find the iCAL source file in Leopard OS 10.5
My version:
pc-69-174:bin Roody$ ./standalone-start.sh
INFO | GCALDaemon V1.0 beta 16 starting...
INFO | Extended synchronization enabled.
INFO | RSS/ATOM feed converter enabled.
INFO | Local time zone is Central European Time.
INFO | HTTP server disabled.
INFO | Start listening file /usr/local/sbin/GCALDaemon/google.ics...
INFO | File listener started successfully.
INFO | LDAP server disabled.
INFO | Gmail notifier disabled.
INFO | Sendmail service disabled.
INFO | Mail terminal disabled.

GCAL version:
./standalone-start.sh

INFO | GCALDaemon V1.0 beta 16 starting...
INFO | Local time zone is Pacific Standard Time.
INFO | HTTP server disabled.
INFO | RSS/ATOM feed converter disabled.
INFO | Start listening file /Users/user/Library/.../iCal/corestorage.ics...
INFO | File listener started successfully.
INFO | LDAP server disabled.
INFO | Gmail notifier disabled.
INFO | Sendmail service disabled.

jwhendy · #7 July 13th, 2008, 11:39 PM

Hi,

I just went through the setup of GCALDeamon on a MacBook running OS 10.5.4 and it does indeed work. It looks like the former version of storing calendar data is different than Leopard, so you have to make a tweak, namely:

Instead of trying to find the 'corestorage.ics' file referenced, use:

/Users/--YourUserName--/Library/Calendars/--CalendarName--/Events/*.ics

In the past, all calendar data was most likely stored in one .ics file, whereas now, all events have their own .ics file so to get around multiple files, the wild card character, *, gets GCALDaemon to grab everything.

I can't take credit for this... just passing on the solution I found here, myself and hoped I could 'pollinate' this forum and help some others...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=377826

-John

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