GMail Calendar Synch

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Today I checked out GMail "Calendar." Apparently once you click on, sign in and "view," it is not possible to "unsubscribe," so now I'm stuck with "Calendar" on top left of my GMail inbox. While annoying, it presents some interesting Palm synching questions I have:

1. There is a "groups" discussion of Palm calendar synch with GMail Calendar, and one girl has found a way to do it with "Air-something" and then importing.

2. There are multiple requests for a GMail HotSync conduit.

3. My thoughts were to exort my calendar as CSV and import - it wouldn't "sync," perse, but would at least but regularly scheduled events on GMail.

My concerns are this:

1. With the ability to share your calendar with others and/or mark them private - are there any security concerns "you all" have regarding events on a GMail Calendar? Some in the forums are reorting "spammed" events showing up on their calendar.

2. I can export, and regularly do, my contacts as a csv including all fields. Apparently you can't export calendar as anything other than .dba (archive) file. I seem to remember Mooseman fixing calendar issues by looking at them in Excel and deleting "@@@@" garbage - I'm wondering now how that's done since I can't seem to convert .dba to .csv (tried just changing file extension, no workie and no details).

Thanks in advance for any input - I don't keep cookies on Firefox, and the only thing Google Calendar asked was Timezone (obviously) - but apparently once calendar is "on there," there's no unsubscribe. Groan. Do you view this as a security risk, and especially if your calendar was imported basically to the web and marked "private" except some events you'd share with others? And since iCal isn't possible, what's most expedient way to "get the data outta Palm Desktop" for manipulation and import? I feel like a putz for asking, but it's been a long time since I messed with calendar data manipulation since switching to MonthlyPlanner! It doesn't make errors!

BTW, I'm working this weekend on a Stylish script (Firefox extension - fantastic!) that just MIGHT allow you to have your Agendus/Datebk5 icons show up on the GMail calendar - it depends on what the Firefox Dom Inspector tells me about the particular element entered in the calendar. That would rock . . . as long as the world isn't reading the calendar.

Cheers/p
 
Paul,

You can't convert a csv to a dba without importing it back into the calendar and hence it becomes a dba at that time. The problem with this is, you are purging all records when you import a CSV file - There seems to be a lot of interest in Google calendar and getting it to sync to a Palm so it's probably just a matter of time.

Security - well how secure is the net anyway? I think that if your calendar is in cyberspace then it's going to be susceptable no matter what. Calendar doesn't bother me as much as Contacts would - I'm forced to use Outlook Exhange and our password encryption is nothing to write home about so - but it's never been cracked either.

There is some discussion on this very topic.

So you might want to check that out?
 
Thanks! The guy is working on GoogleSynch, at least so far a utility to export calendar/datebook stuff as csv.

http://www.googlesync.com/

Tried installing, install failed, error 9301/9303 (?) and did not put the plugins in the Programs/palmone "AddIns" folder (which doesn't exist anyway). It was looking for "palm," which is I believe outdated as 4.1.4 Desktop.

I was told to create the folder, and then steer the installer to putting in this 2MB proggie - haven't done that yet. But this guy is great and working on it - I believe he has the best "shot;" thanks Moose Man for the discussion link which led to this along with emails back and forth with this fellow -
 
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