Comments on: Easily share an iCal calendar without .Mac

By: David

David — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:41:33 +0000

Cheers Bruce, worked a treat.

However, Google CalDav does offer an editable, synced calendar, but my favourite has to be BusySync. Perhaps I will pay for it now!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:00 +0000

But I do not think that I have the option to choose a non-email-address-username? <:)

Just checked; the user name is an e-mail address as you say, so "@" is not the problem. No other characters e.g. umlauts in your login or password? Can you publish from iCal on another Mac in your network? Can you publish from outside your network, suggesting a firewall issue?

By: Stine

Stine — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:06:49 +0000

But I do not think that I have the option to choose a non-email-address-username? <:)

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:39:11 +0000

maybe the @ could be a problem?!

Certainly possible; try changing it. At least you now know the problem is with the publishing, not the subscribing.

By: Stine

Stine — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:58:51 +0000

Thanks a lot Bruce.. but unfortunately my Box seems to be all empty :/ No .ics files! This despite the fact that iCal told me that my calendar had been successfully published and that the .ics file could be found by following the URL to my Box..

The user name to my Box is my e-mail address.. maybe the @ could be a problem?!

Hmm :)

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:59:25 +0000

Stine I guess it could be any number of things, but I don't know what is causing this. I would suggest first that you browse to your published calendar on Box and download the .ics file to your desktop, then create a new "test" calendar in iCal and import your download into it. Does that work? If so you've verified that the export went OK (the data are not corrupt) and you can delete your test calendar. That you're not seeing the name/ password dialog at all makes me wonder if Box (or iCal) is sensitive to the type of characters in your name or password. Perhaps try changing these to simple ASCI text to determine this.

If those things don't help I can only suggest trying Box support. I set ours up over a year ago and they continue to work reliably without adjustments. In that time Box has evolved, so has iCal (in OS X 10.5.x), but never change has caused us problems.

By: Stine

Stine — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:30:56 +0000

Hi :) I just tried to do the box-thing described above.... but when I get to the subscribe part I do not get the loginname/password request... just an alert telling me that the data transfered is invalid :( What am I doing wrong?! <:) Cheers, Stine

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:39:21 +0000

Update for you Taryn:

BusySync allows multiple users to share and edit iCal calendars on a local area network or over the internet without the need for a dedicated server.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:54:20 +0000

Just helping to spread the word Michelle ;-)

Taryn, sorry I must have missed your comment. No, if you are subscribed to a calendar in iCal it is read-only. You can only edit your own calenders.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:52:55 +0000

Excellent solution. This is just what my husband and I were looking for. Thanks for your work on this.