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Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:25 pm
by Chris Proud
I've just upgraded to Win10, Thunderbird 38.2, and BirdieSync 3.0 beta 23. Locally stored and ICS calendars sync to my Samsung S5 with no problems. Google calendars, however, universally do not sync, reporting a failure due to "unexpected error" for every event. Any suggestions?

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:22 pm
by Chris Proud
Ok, after interpreting a previous post in French I realized the problem was with Provider for Google Calendar. I uninstalled the Provider add-on from Thunderbird, then added the Google calendars as CALDAV. Details at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde ... r/reviews/
and
https://developers.google.com/google-ap ... dav_server

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:02 pm
by curehead
hi Chris,

ty very much! Been busy for a whole weekend trying to sync G-Cals.
Caldav is indeed the way to go.

Just some extra I wanted to share:

if you have a setuo like me (TB 38.xx) with calendars from different google-accounts. Be sure to add calendars in thunderbird (caldav) with the owner account of google. Even when I give account 2 all the rights from account 1 in google, using account 2 as the access acount (you know, in the popup "login google") it often fails and Birdiesync gives failures.

Greetings to all Birdies

Kjoere

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:14 pm
by Chris Proud
Thanks Kjoere. I did indeed have trouble with a couple calendars repeatedly turning "off" until I'd go into Properties and turn back "on." At some point (can't remember exact sequence), the Google Login popped up, I entered my credentials, and all seems to be working since.

Chris

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:33 pm
by Chris Proud
No, spoke too soon. I still have to occasionally turn my CALDAV calendars back on. Don't know why.

Chris

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:27 pm
by Birdy
Hello Chris and Kjoere,

If one of you still have problems with failures for a lot of events in the Google calendar (accessed though the Google Calendar Provider), could you please install latest version beta 25 (some specific traces were added in this build) and then after you get all the failures in the Google calendar, while Thunderbird remains connected (important), build a log archive with menu "Help/Archive logs..." and send BirdieSyncLog.zip to support(at)bidiesync.com to be analyzed.
Thanks.

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:43 pm
by Chris Proud
Hi Birdy,

I think there's a misunderstanding. We've uninstalled Provider for Google Calendar in favor of CALDAV within Thunderbird. It works well except for calendars mysteriously turning off in Thunderbird on occasion, requiring manually turning back on. I'm not much interested in going back to Provider for Google Calendar. Currently no issues with BirdieSync and CALDAV.

Chris

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:53 pm
by Birdy
@Chris: I understood well that you had no problem in calDAV mode. But actually since it hasn't been possible to presently reproduce this problem with Google Calendar Provider, any (other) user which still has these failures may send its logs to support for analysis.

Re: Can't Sync Google Calendars

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:57 am
by curehead
Hello guys,

the autmatically turning off (or changing to read-only) is a google issue I think. When you want to sync too many events at once, it happens.

the "new" calendars i introduced too take over old ones (with more then 10K appointments) never have this problem.

greetings,
Kjoere.