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gSync allows you to simply synchronise Mac OS X iCal with Google calendar. Features include:
- easy to use and just works (we hope!)
- choose which iCal calendars to sync
- sync with Google calendar or override
What's New
Version 1.4:
- Tiger users should be able to upgrade seamlesly to Leopard
- We recommend everyone backup
- you have to reset and re-configure if you are using v1.0.4 or earlier
- addresses issues with Leopard 10.5.2 patch
- improvements to UI (hiding in background and has system menu now)
- added menu status icon
- new backend (uses sqlite)
- minor bug fixes
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Google Calendar account, iCal.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Google Calendar account, iCal.
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| Downloads:16,480 |
| Version Downloads:10,572 |
| Type:Business : Personal Info Managers |
| License:Demo |
| Date:12 Mar 2008 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $20.00 |
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gSync allows you to simply synchronise Mac OS X iCal with Google calendar. Features include:
- easy to use and just works (we hope!)
- choose which iCal calendars to sync
- sync with Google calendar or override
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crater reviewed on 14 Feb 2008
I have 5 iCal calendars syncing with 5 google calendars. The issues I had were 'failing to create sync session' and inability to 'update google calendar' (or something like that).
Once I switched to normal syncing for all calendars and did the whole resetting thing (i.e reset iSync & gSync, log out and back in) it worked great. The was one problem in that resetting gSync does not seem to remove all of gsync's files from the hard drive, specifically files in ~/Library . I had to manually remove those to sort out the problems. All users should make sure to back up their calendars before messing around.
In general, this is a great app and once I've used the demo for long enough, my £10 will be on it's way. good work.
I'm on 10.4.11
PowerBook 12in - 1.33Ghz PPC
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tunt reviewed on 12 Dec 2007
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GSync did the trick for me. I haven't tested it extensively but it was easy to setup and seems to have synced my calendars properly. My tenner is on its way.
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M Chang reviewed on 06 Dec 2007
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debtman7 reviewed on 05 Dec 2007
Why? The alternative, Spanning Sync, costs 3 times as much. The free alternative, GCalDaemon, doesn't work with leopard and even if it did, it does not support subscribed private iCal's (i.e. my wife shared her calendar with me through google calendar, but GCalDaemon can't sync that). The free service plaxo can sync multiple calendars, but through my testing only syncs them with their own calendar and not with each other (so you can't sync iCal with google calendar, though you can sync them all with plaxo).
So far this one just worked. Can't beat that.
Also testing at large scale could only happen once Leopard shipped.
We try to support the best we can and we believe that the latest BETA has solved all issues with Leopard and duplicates.
cheers, Jim Fuller
VanillaIcee reviewed on 21 Nov 2007
The current version (in Leopard) will duplicate your all day events and improperly handles sync conflicts. The developer does not seem to prioritize testing before releases. Unfortunately GCALDaemon is not 100% in Leopard so I can't recommend that instead, but this program is not a solution for bidirectional syncing. Hopefully Google will release CalDAV compatibility soon and this program can die.
ramonycajal reviewed on 13 Oct 2007
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On the subject if gSybc they said a refund was not a problem...well, I haven't heard from them since. Nor have I seen any money.
Stay away!
/Mikael
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MikaelF reviewed on 12 Jul 2007
I'm so pissed right now....
F*ing piece of sh*t!
/Mikael
come over to http://groups.google.com/group/gsync
and we will try to sort you out.
did you make a backup of your calendars before ?
cheers, Jim
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If the developer is listening...why don't gSync do a backup on both calendare before potentially screwing things up? This new feature is a free idea from me.
Now that I have two clean calendars gSync seems to work...duh.
/Mikael
http://groups.google.com/group/gsync
If you do not give us any details, we can't help.
when u say 'filled up with someone elses crap', what does this mean ? you have another persons events in your Apple iCal?
cheers, Jim
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I will but what happend was that I installed gSync. Configured my gmail account, mapped iCal and Gmail calendar and synced. I got a conflict that I tried to resolve twice and sync again. The third time gSync threw an error. My entries in gmail was now removed....ALL of them. In iCal the caklendar I was syncing with was also cleared out. Both that one and gmail instead had a bunch of entries like "David back from London" David this and David that, "Brooklyn" in multiple locations.
Looks like either someone elses data or demodata. Not familiar to me.
What is there to do. Does Google keep a backup of my data? Would be a nice surprise. It was the gmail calendar that had all my entries of interest.
/Mikael
the worst gSync has done to date is create duplicate events, which is definately irratating for all.
note we have 2 verbal groups of users, one who have probs (oddly enough everyone here at macupdate) and the other group love the software....then we have the silent majority (around 15,000 users) who we see are using the software on a daily basis with no probs...or perhaps they are not telling us of problems.
if you can post to the google groups mentioned in this thread, then we will open it as an issue....and we will try to sort out your general issue....note I can't make promises on getting your data back.
cheers, Jim Fuller
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There is a setting in gSync that will override/overwrite Googles calendar data. This means it will potentially delete data in Googles Calendar..right?
I'm trying to understand how any type of misstake in gSync would allow ALL data in my Google calendar to be wiped out. It clearly happend exactly when gSync started throwing errors. I had the Google calendar open in a browser window and saw it reload with garbage.
I think you should consider having gSync do backups on both sides before touching anything. I know a little about software development. I'm working at Oracle in Development and have done so for the last 5 years (17 years in the industri). I'm just now so irritated at myself for not having a backup of my Google calendar. That will NEVER happen again.
/Mikael
but in a transactional sense, this is all or nothing, partial updates are simply not possible from our side.
The 'override' mode is a feature, which perhaps we should warn users when they click it.
though all this doesn't explain the 'Dave' events which are particularly worrisome.
gSync doesn't insert random data into events, if event data was corrupt it is highly unlikely that Google API would even accept it via its interface.
With the information so far provided we cannot explain how Google Calendar API would return someone else's events...all sorts of privacy issues there.
It is understandable that you are irate, the best we can do is try to resolve the problem....any chance of you sending me a sample of the Dave data?
armed with this, I can speak to the Google API folks.
btw, do u have any other sync products in use ?
cheers, Jim
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This is a significant upgrade?
Some documentation would be nice. An icon for the app rather than the generic one would also be nice.