LIH Prem
Feb 3, 08, 4:12 am
I just spent hours and hours trying to get a copy of my google calendar onto my ipod touch.
I have outlook 2007 on my PC, so that wasn't a problem. It's fairly easy to open your ical link to google calendar and import the calendar into outlook 2007. I don't use outlook, but I used it for this.
Convincing itunes to actually move the data was the problem.
At the end of the day, it worked after I exported the newly named calendar from outlook into a backup .pst file, then imported it back into the main calendar. Once the events were in main calendar, itunes transfered them. I couldn't figure out any way to coerce itunes to transfer the calendar items when they were in a different calendar in outlook, and that's what the ical import does in outlook.
Also, itunes doesn't like it unless you make outlook your default email program, even if you are only transferring a calendar.
What a pain. If there's an easier way to do this, I'd like to know what it is. There's no alternate selections available for program to import from in itunes, and no obvious way to select an alternate calendar. There's a checkbox for selecting specific calendars, but itunes wouldn't let me select it.
I know you can just use the Safari browser to go to Google's calendar web page, but I would think most people would want a local copy of their calendar on the touch in case they aren't in range of a wifi access point they can connect to. And yes, I know that this is clearly one place where having a mac would make this much easier.
I don't see why itunes doesn't just support calendar import from an ics/ical file.
-David
I have outlook 2007 on my PC, so that wasn't a problem. It's fairly easy to open your ical link to google calendar and import the calendar into outlook 2007. I don't use outlook, but I used it for this.
Convincing itunes to actually move the data was the problem.
At the end of the day, it worked after I exported the newly named calendar from outlook into a backup .pst file, then imported it back into the main calendar. Once the events were in main calendar, itunes transfered them. I couldn't figure out any way to coerce itunes to transfer the calendar items when they were in a different calendar in outlook, and that's what the ical import does in outlook.
Also, itunes doesn't like it unless you make outlook your default email program, even if you are only transferring a calendar.
What a pain. If there's an easier way to do this, I'd like to know what it is. There's no alternate selections available for program to import from in itunes, and no obvious way to select an alternate calendar. There's a checkbox for selecting specific calendars, but itunes wouldn't let me select it.
I know you can just use the Safari browser to go to Google's calendar web page, but I would think most people would want a local copy of their calendar on the touch in case they aren't in range of a wifi access point they can connect to. And yes, I know that this is clearly one place where having a mac would make this much easier.
I don't see why itunes doesn't just support calendar import from an ics/ical file.
-David