 | Jun 27 2008 |
AKROBAT I'm envious of those that were able to get this to work. I tried countless times and finally deleted the thing.
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 | Feb 14 2008 |
CRATER Great stuff! It did take me a while to get everything set up and working but it syncs perfectly now. 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.
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 | Feb 14 2008 |
PowerBook 12in - 1.33Ghz PPC
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| Dec 12 2007 |
TUNT Somewhat too expensive, but cheaper than a .mac account. It's working fine for me!
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| Dec 8 2007 |
LOTUS49 I came looking for this because I was previously using gcaldaemon (which worked but was NOT easy to setup) and that doesn't work with Leopard. Spanning Sync is too expensive and I don't like the unnecessary use of an external server. 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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| Dec 6 2007 |
M CHANG Running OS 10.4.10 (home) and 10.4.11 (work). Both systems are syncing quite happily with my Google Calendar. Program does what it's supposed to. There are some items that aren't explained in the Help (hence my 4 out of 5 rating).
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| Dec 5 2007 |
DEBTMAN7 Well let me give a positive review here. I just tried the 1.1.2 release with leopard and so far with a few trials I am extremely happy. As long as it holds up and I don't encounter any problems, I'll be buying it. 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.
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| Nov 27 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS I think this review is a little harsh.... the Leopard release changed both Apple iCal and Apple Sync Services. 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
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| Nov 21 2007 |
VANILLAICEE This is a horribly supported product which I recommend people not even try to run. If you chose to you will only be frustrated and end up beta testing software that should not be released to the public. 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.
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| Nov 20 2007 |
SONICDEVIANT For those among you who are more tech savvy (i.e., you're not afraid of the Terminal), give GCALDaemon a try. Works great and is FREE!
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| Oct 13 2007 |
RAMONYCAJAL I have been using gSync for some time now, and have experienced nothing but frustration. Synching is erratic, with problems occurring sporadically and unpredictably. Problems include: duplicate entries, entries that disappear from the Google calendar following a sync, and unwanted invitations that appear in all recurring events. I have downloaded a demo of SpanningSync, and so far it has worked without fail. I recognize the shortcoming of SpanningSyc (price, use of their server), however, in addition to the absence of bugs, they have the added advantages that they handle recurring events, they sync alarms correctly, and they perform scheduled syncs in the background; gSync offers none of the above. The gSync website continues to mislead by headlining the claim "duplicates and recurrences solved"; this is not the case. Multiple users have been posting complaints on the developer's Google Group, but fixes are yet to appear (the developers lay the blame at Google's doorstep). In sum, this application is certainly not ready for prime time.
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| Oct 15 2007 |
MIKAELF Try Plaxo. I did and it keeps all my address books and Calendars in sync. Basic version is free and 99% of what I need is in the free version. I did pay pay but I must admit that I rarely use the paid features. 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. | |
| Jul 12 2007 |
MIKAELF Bought this one 15 minutes...5 minutes later my whole gmail calendar is gone! My entries..GONE! Instead it's filled with some other crap... I'm so pissed right now.... | |
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 | Jul 12 2007 |
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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| Jul 12 2007 |
MIKAELF No backup of Google Calendar...only iCal but that didn't help. Google was cleaned out and my iCal filled with somebody elses crap...can you believe it? 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. | |
| Jul 13 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS I don't see you raising your issue in the support area over at 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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| Jul 13 2007 |
MIKAELF I haven't done it yet. 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. | |
| Jul 13 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS this is a new one for us, we do not do anything with your event data....so this must be coming from Google. 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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| Jul 13 2007 |
MIKAELF What do you mean wit "We don't do anything with your event data?" 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. | |
| Jul 13 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS u are right, in override mode you would simply delete the google calendar and write all apple iCal data. 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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| Jul 12 2007 |
JOSHP Plaxo.com does this automagically. It works wonderfully and is free.
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| Jul 11 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS gSync v1.0.1 is released. This is our first commercial release. get it at http://www.macness.com cheers, Jim Fuller
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| Jun 19 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN I can't even open it. It crashes immediately. This has happened with every new version.
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| Jun 13 2007 |
JOHNNY ROCKET does it not work with google for your domain? it won't take my password for it...
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| Jun 9 2007 |
MIOCYON I gotta say, I keep trying this every time a new version comes out, and I have yet to get it work correctly for me. I don't see new events from iCal in gCal; I often get errors, but don't really know how to fix them, nor how to even see what caused them; I've often gotten duplicates on one or the other side. The latest version (0.9.9) seemed to work for a bit. It brought up some conflicts, although many of them I had no idea what it was conflicted with (is stuff pulled to the macness server? cuz I often had conflicts there). Then it just got hung up, and the progress wheel just kept spinning. It's a great idea, but before I pay $20 for it's got to be a lot less buggy. I'll keep trying to get gCalDAEMON to work, although I haven't gotten there yet...
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| Jun 10 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS note that for the majority of users, things just work with a minimum of interaction. sounds like you should go to http://groups.google.com/group/gsync and we will try to help you out. you most likely have something fundemantally different with your platform. Also there might be an interaction issue if u are using other software that syncs. lastly, we dont have any 3rd party server, the client connects directly to google which is of course more secure. cheers, Jim
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| May 8 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS new version out gSync v0.9.8 , should solve most of reported problems.....we hope. cheers, Jim Fuller
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| Apr 13 2007 |
GRYPHONENT Doesnt work... unfortunately. Moreover, while I removed the app and all instances of it from my harddrive, I get constantly an error that gSyncTool has crashed. Arrgh. Can anybody please tell me how to remove gSync ENTIRELY from my harddrive. And maybe where to locate the ominous gsynctool????
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| Apr 10 2007 |
JACK75 Duplicates several times the calendars in Google, but will not updates the calendars in iCal between several computers ... The aim is good, but the result is not there. I will try Gcal Daemon or wait for the Google answer.
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| Apr 11 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS thx for the comments, we have identified 3 bugs with this release.... * for people who have other software that uses the Apple Sync services...there maybe some interaction issues * password box UI problem * and for a very small group we have a crash at startup duplicate calendars are interesting to us cause it sounds like a bug we addressed, any chance of a crash report ? http://groups.google.com/group/gsync/topics all bug submissions here will automatically put you in the running for a free copy when (we hope there is a when!) everything works at v1.0 release. cheers, Jim Fuller
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| Apr 10 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS thx for the comments, any chance of your OS (intel or powerpc), and a crash log? I think we can safely assume there is a UI issue with the password box (have had 2 other users report this). Also crashing at startup was reported by one other user, so something is going on there as well. unfortunately fixing the recurrences bug of the last version has introduced some issues, which we will track down. cheers, Jim Fuller
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| Apr 10 2007 |
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Crashes as soon as I open it. Unuseable. Doesn't inspire much confidence though I think the idea is great and the price is right.
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| Apr 10 2007 |
JOHNNY ROCKET hmmm... it's been synchronizing for 1/2 hour now and has accomplished nothing. In fact it started synchronizing before I gave it an account, had to stop it and give it an account. Had to quit it then refresh the google account to get it to ask for the password. [had to figure this out as the Help only has info on when there will be a stable release and how to uninstall it. (probably the most helpful part)] hmmm... it's still refreshing the google account... but the window with the password is still open... I click the button again and it gets an error. I click the button to show the log and it says 3 times that there was an error logging in. I click the button to close that window and nothing happens. I click the red X to close the window and the whole program crashes.
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| Apr 10 2007 |
M-RICK Impossible to enter the password in the account window ...
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| Mar 28 2007 |
UMIJIN Well, this version crashes when I start the app on my G5 iMac with OSX 10.4.9. This is a significant upgrade? Some documentation would be nice. An icon for the app rather than the generic one would also be nice.
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| Mar 28 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS Macness has released another commercial beta of gSync (gSync v0.9.3-rc1), which is a utility that allows you to simply synchronise Mac OSX iCal with Google Calendar. This is a signifant improvement over previous betas. get at the usual place http://www.macness.com
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| Mar 28 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Thanks, it has been posted. Could not find any release notes though...
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| Feb 21 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS Just a note; gSync (as one can see from the various reviews) is BETA software. Macness recc. that you backup your iCal and Google Calendar before trying it out. We hope that the comments from the few thousand who have tried will result in a stable v1.0 release. many thx, Jim Fuller
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| Feb 19 2007 |
DENISL Like the other reviewer: it seemed to work nicely the first time. I added a second Google Calendar, syncing to a different iCal calendar, and that was the end! gSync erased everything from Google, and nearly everything from iCal. I restored my iCal database (thankfully I had a backup!), and tried to sync again. This time gSync reported an error, and then it hung -- had to force quit. If you have time to kill and want to try this, make sure you have a backup of your iCal database! You'll need it.
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| Feb 20 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS out of 1500+ downloads, we have recieved 3 critical bug reports with 2 being listed here at macupdate with this corruption issue. note that the demo build is for Mac OSX 10.4. We are currently trying to replicate your bug. In any event we are getting plenty of minor bug reports and will release a new demo version sometime in the coming week. I think considering this is a beta, we definately recc. backing up everything (and I have added this as a warning on the website). cheers, Jim Fuller
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| Feb 20 2007 |
DENISL I was using 10.4.8, fully up to date, on an iBook. Good luck with the debugging.
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| Feb 20 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS thx for the feedback, we are still trying to replicate this bug...it maybe that the Apple sync machine libraries can be out of sync...not sure, will report back when we know. so far we have around 1400 downloads with 2 reports of this behavior. another possibility we are investigating is that if the sync process has not actually finished and gSync was shut down (which we cater for, but is a possibility) many thx for the continuing feedback. Jim Fuller
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| Feb 20 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS if u go to apple About this mac (more info) e.g. System Profiler and then report on software/framework what date does your SyncServices show ? regards, Jim Fuller
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| Feb 20 2007 |
DENISL 2.4: 2/3/07 3:50 PM
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| Feb 19 2007 |
JIMFULLERATMACNESS thx for trying out the beta. any chance of give us any more info re your situation? Did the application crash or give any error messages? Can you provide us with your exact system definition? I think this highlights the need for us to have an uninstaller program. many thx, Jim Fuller (Macness Developer)
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| Feb 19 2007 |
CYBERFUNK Worked well the first time.. and then tried to add more calenders. Everything went to hell in a handbasket unfortunately. Deleted prefs and all files I could find related to the program, and reinstalled.. and now it cant even refresh my local iCal calenders, much less sync them to Google. This is still very much beta/alpha ware.
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