Google Calendar and Lightning

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Dragon777
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Google Calendar and Lightning

Post by Dragon777 »

Hello,

I trialed BirdieSync with Mozilla Lightning today and it works fine.
But there is one problem.
I have always synched my Lightning with Goolge Calendar through the Provider Add-On. Problem is, that when I select the Network-Google-Calendar calendar of Lightnint to synch with my PPC through Birdie, the whole calendar on the PPC gets emptied right away!
It works without problems with a local Lightning calendar, though.

Does anybody know of a way to synch all three, Google Calendar, Lightning and PPC?

Suggestions are very much appreciated. This way Birdie is useless for me.

Thanks
Dominik

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Post by Birdy »

Hello Dominik,

The synchronization with a Google calendar with the provider add-on is under investigation. Actually there are one or two problems in the Google provider code itself and BirdieSync should be slightly modified to adapt to this provider. Another problem is that this provider is in early stage development and has still a lot of restrictions... I think that next version of BirdieSync will be more compliant with this provider but it will very likely need to be patched.
Birdy

Dragon777
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Google Calendar and Lightning

Post by Dragon777 »

Hello,

thanks for the information.

Any time schedule for this adaption of Birdie?

Best regards
Dominik

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Post by Birdy »

It shouldn't be very long. Very likely in next version.
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Post by Birdy »

Synchronization with Google calendar is now possible in version 1.5.3.0. But as mentioned before, presently the Google calendar provider needs to be patched. Check out this thread.
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sonney
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Post by sonney »

sync works with sunbird but not with lightning.
I installed the "provider for google calendar 0.2" extension on thunderbird.
The sync google <--> lightning works great
The sync lightning <--> ppc does not work with birdie sync
the sync google --> sunbird works (one way, read only mode)
the sync sunbird --> ppc works with birdiesync

I installed the patch.
At the end I only have a one way sync

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Post by sonney »

hi everyone!
wrong alert. I restarted the whole thing and now

the sync lightning (w/ google agenda extension) <--> ppc works great w/ birdie sync

I don't need sunbrid anymore

athi1234
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Post by athi1234 »

Hi there,

I'm having similar problems. I'm using Thunderbird 2.0 with Google Provider 0.2.1 and BirdieSync 1.5.4.0 on Windows XP Pro SP2 with ActiveSync 4.5.

Syncing my contacts is no problem. This works fine for me. But when it comes to syncing my events it takes very long (...about 90 mins for ca. 600 events), sometimes it even hangs and doesn't respond anymore.

Is this because of misconfiguration or is there a way to speed things up?

Regards,
Athi

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Post by athi1234 »

Ok, I installed your js-Patch for my Google Provider 2.1. Now syncing works, although it's still very slow. I'm syncing two GoogleCals with category option. But some events don't appear on my PPC though they are in the GoogleCal.

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Post by Birdy »

If it takes 30s to synchronize an event, it's because there is a time out and a synchronization problem. When you say synchronization is slow, how long does it take to synchronize one event ?

Is it possible to send to support(at)birdiesync.com the log ThunderbirdService.log (located in C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\BirdieSync\Log\
) after the synchronization ?
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Post by athi1234 »

Ok, just sent you the logs.

benkepes
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same problem

Post by benkepes »

i'm also having very slow (about 1 minute per event) syncing from google thru provider to lightning then birdie sync

any ideas?????

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Post by Birdy »

Hello benkepes,

Sorry to ask you this question, but did you install the patch as described in this thread ?
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Post by benkepes »

just did and it works!!!!!

thanks

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