Google Calendar CalDAV/iCal syncing now official

Is anybody else having issues with multiple invite emails being sent when you create a meeting (with invitees) in iCal for one of the Google calendars? Whenever I create a meeting this way -- at least two if not three emails are received by the invitee (and it's from my gmail account).

I just had a need for google calendar and the sync with iCal works fine, and very quickly.

I do wish the iphone calendar recognized shared/subscribed calendars, that would make life easier.

According to my iCal 3.05 "Preferences" -> "Accounts"

Availability:

Availability is not supported on the server for this account.

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I am not surprised. When Gmail offered free IMAP feature. It took about a week or two for the service to become available to me. Google has an army full of servers around the world that it takes time to update them all.

The only issue I have is all the headings that appear in iCal after syncing (Google: Main Calendar) etc. I would like to organize them alphabetically but can't seem to find a way to do this. Dragging doesn't work neither does importing them one at a time in the order you would like. Other than that It works like a charm.

Michael-

As it turns out, there are quite a few important differences between Google's CalDAV support and Spanning Sync that you don't cover here. I've written a blog post describing the ones we think will affect the most people::

http://spanningsync.com/caldav-comparison

Comments and questions are welcome.

Thanks,
Charlie
Spanning Sync

le Big Mac,

To move items to another calendar double click to edit details, from the drop down choose the cal you want to copy to and then delete original.

I've been using it for months. All the family usesit to sync four cals across three macs and also using gcal at work on windows machine. Only one problem when I ended up with duplicates of all the calendars - error by one of the users no doubt.

I don't know if I'm doing this right.
My iCal automatically adds anything that is added on GoogleCalendar when I open it and it syncs.
If I add something to my Iphone THAT data gets added to iCal but NOT to GCal until I drag and drop it from Ical into the GCal on the left side. It's just one step and sometimes I forget but it's not THAT big a deal.
Am I doing something wrong?

Also Plaxo did nothing but screw up my whole address book. Seems to work for some but failed more than once for me. Use Google.

I went to mobileme just for this reason. To sync my desktop cal with some sort cloud cal. Plus integration to my iphone is key. If google did that and contacts. I would ditch mobileme. Luckily im still under the 60 day trial.

hey i have been dealing with this and google is still a long way from perfect .

Try using: www.plaxo.com

Great for address book and calender syncing cross platform and free, I dont think they do iphone yet. but it always has worked for me for a year at least.