David Eedle

Geek, tech, programmer, business owner. Serial starter of things. Occasional finisher. Oh, and please don't call me Dave.

Entries in iCal not syncing to Google Calendar

Posted on February 2, 2010 by David Eedle

I have iCal set up attached to my Google Calendar, and thus events entered into iCal, Google Calendar or my iPhone all happily sync up. Except today new events entered into iCal stopped appearing in Google or iPhone.

Found a quick and easy solution.

1. Exit iCal

2. Find the file [youruser]/library/calendars/calendar cache and delete it

3. Restart iCal

And hey presto entries added to iCal are syncing again.

8 thoughts on “Entries in iCal not syncing to Google Calendar”

Chip on October 10, 2010 at 2:39 am said:

Awesome tip. Thanks!

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Amrita on November 11, 2010 at 2:20 am said:

Thank you! I was so stuck and this was the perfect solution.

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N on November 22, 2010 at 1:27 pm said:

hey there….thanks for this tip. was stuck. google. you. happiness.

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Jeff Davanzo on March 12, 2011 at 12:21 am said:

Yes! Finally. Thanks.

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martin brown on March 29, 2011 at 4:09 pm said:

Cant find the the file ¿?¿? .where might it be ……
searched for 30 minutes …
Thanks

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David Eedle on March 29, 2011 at 4:20 pm said:

Martin
On your Mac click the Finder icon (smiley face, usually left end of your Dock).
Click Macintosh HD
Click Users
Click your name
Click Library
Click Calendars
You should see at least one file named ‘Calendar Cache’ in that folder.
At least, that’s where I found my cache file.
Cheers…David

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James Sullivan on May 13, 2011 at 11:36 pm said:

Just so other users know – any items that were not copied to your google calendar from ical will be lost at this point, so print it out or write them down.

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Susan on February 18, 2012 at 6:08 am said:

oh my gosh it worked!!! thank you so much – I was in the same boat as the person who couldn’t find the file – huge thanks for the additional details too!

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