Comments on: How to enable two-way synchronization of Google Calendar with Thunderbird and Lightning

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:44:50 +0000

I don’t have the New… button in the instructon that says: “In Thunderbird’s lower left pane, click on the Calendars tab, and then click on the New… button”.

I reinstalled Thunderbird, Lightning and GCal add-on but I still don’t see “New…” button. Where is it?

Thanks

By: Barrie Bramley

Barrie Bramley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:36:24 +0000

Thanks for great step by step process. If I’d followed it properly the first time it’d have been faster : )

Any advice on how to sync a Windows Mobile Phone with Sunbird/Thunderbird or Google Calendar? If I get that right it’s goodbye Outlook forever?

Thank you. Beeg time again

By: Risa

Risa — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:18:03 +0000

You would not believe the [insert expletive here] I have been through for the last week in order to find a way to use Sunbird to eventually sync to my BB. I needed to be able to include a link in the event (which I knew Google didn’t accept) but in Sunbird I pasted the link into the description field and it successfully was synced to gcal and the link worked perfectly.

I have reviewed so many techie blogs and installed (and uninstalled) numerous programs because they didn’t work out like I had hoped. I love add-ons!! I can’t believe this was right under my nose the whole time.

Thank you for this great add-on and for making the process so simple!! This is such an easier process than using GCalDaemon!!!

By: Henrik (Denmark)

Henrik (Denmark) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:40:38 +0000

Thank you so much – this is just so very, very cool

By: Reza

Reza — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:45:29 +0000

Great Help… I always wanted to sync my google calender with thunderbird.

By: marty

marty — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:28:56 +0000

omg, this is just fantastic.. i dont have a clue how i came across this blog article, but i am so glad i did this is just amazing, you have no ideal how long ive been trying to sync my g cal with my desktop.. and then i sync my desk (Thunderbird) cal with my nokia symbian device.. (n95 and n82 with handy calender installed on both)

thankyou for this great post..

By: Dissidence

Dissidence — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:11:28 +0000

I’m having the same problem as atenrok. When I add a calendar it doesn’t show in the calendar list of Lightning.

I’m using
Thunderbird Portable: 2.0.0.9
Lightning: 0.7
Provider for Google Calendar : 0.3.1

Any suggestions?

By: atenrok

atenrok — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:15:37 +0000

after I updated both lightning and provider to the most recent version no remote calendars show up in my thunderbird any more. I tried to delete the calendars and create them again – no change.

By: tchandler

tchandler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:01:13 +0000

yes, there is currently no offline support for lightning/provide/googlecalendar. apparently it’s coming in october.

in the meantime, i just disabled provider and installed gcaldaemon. it’s a much more labor intensive install, but it allows for local caching of your google calendars and two way syncing. so, you can view and update while offline and then it will sync once connected.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcaldaemon/

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:58:23 +0000

You guys are right: there are currently two filed bugs which currently do not allow this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366923
and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380060

and on refreshing the calendar view when offline I get the same problem.