[chasg]

Hi All,

Ok, my iCal calendar is on my laptop which I have hooked up to my desktop in Firewire transfer mode when I am in the office. Short version: I want to use the laptop's iCal database on the desktop.

I already have my email client (Eudora) aliased correctly so that when I run it on the desktop machine, it uses the database resident on the laptop (of course, when I have the laptop out and about, the email client runs on it, same database).

I want to do the same with iCal: have it resident on the laptop so I can use it on the road, but use the same database on the desktop when I and the laptop are in the office (with the laptop acting as an external hard drive hooked up to the desktop machine). A .mac account is not an option.

I've already tried to alias two iCal folders from the laptop to the desktop (one in users:Library:Caches:Metadata: and the other in users:Library:Application Support: ) but iCal insisted on opening up the databases resident on the desktop machine (I used to use iCal on the desktop machine, but its database is old).

Can anyone help me out here? Is it possible, and if so, what other files do I need to manipulate?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Chas

[zro]

If you haven't already, try a symbolic link to your calendar file. Which would be...

[HTML]ln -s /volumes/laptop\ hd/users/user/library/calendars/calendar.ics /users/user/library/calendars/calendar.ics[/HTML]


The "HTML" block is just to prevent line wrapping.

[chasg]

weird, I can't find a "calendar.ics" file anywhere (there is no "calendar" directory in either the G5 or powerbook).

Is this an invisible directory? (no "." at the front of the name though...)

I appreciate the help, but it doesn't seem to apply to my two versions of 10.4.4??

Chas

[zro]

Well crap. I now see they've completely redone it (I assume for sync services) in 10.4... Sorry about that.

I just tried it in 10.3.9 and iCal now replaces the symlink with a flat file. Time was you could symlink a subscribed calendar file in your Calendars folder, then make changes to and publish the symlink to the remote file. So long as the server allowed PUT, that is. Ahh, the good old days.

You could always start Web Sharing, turn on WebDAV to a folder in your sites folder and use Sunbird (The Sunbird Project - Standalone Calendar) or it's Thunderbird extension over the local network.



ps., The 0.3a version isn't very stable using remote calendars. Plus, there's STILL no user-password input. It has to be clear text in the URL. Anyone interested should stick with 0.2.