Re: Calendar synching

   A follow-up to the previous note on 'syncing' calendar events from
CalAgenda to iCal and .mac:

At 12:43 -0700 2006-10-24, I wrote:
>Simply double-clicking an ".ics" file in the Finder *may* be
>enough to import the calendar data it contains into iCal.

   And if for some reason that doesn't work, the iCal application
offers a "File->Import..." menu item; you can then select "Import an
iCal file" and navigate to the ".ics" file containing the events you
wish to import.

At 12:43 -0700 2006-10-24, Aron Roberts wrote:
>Doing periodic, automated syncing [of events from CalAgenda into the
>iCal application] might be more challenging, however, as the Oracle
>Calendar client app doesn't appear to support scripting, unless you
>can rig something up using GUI scripting ...

   It appears someone has already done that, in the form of the
shareware utility OraCal2iCal (untried by me):

   http://mac.sofotex.com/download-127426.html

   Also, as my colleague Anthony Roybal pointed out, while the
processes mentioned in the earlier note mention two possible ways of
extracting data from CalAgenda and bringing it into iCal and thence
the .mac calendar, this is a one-way data transfer and not a
synchronization.

   Performing a true sync, which would involve migrating data in both
directions and resolving conflicts, where applicable, is a completely
different animal.

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

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