Quick Start Guide
To start using iSynCal to synchronize your iCal calendars you just need to
perform the following steps:
- Launching iSynCal you will see your iCal calendars (if already present
on your Mac) on the left side of the iSynCal window. In case no calendar
is listed on the left side open iCal and create some calendars with the same
name of those to synchronize.
- If you have to sync your calendars with another network-connected Mac,
first of all you have to mount the remote Mac's disk containing
the calendars to sync; in case you have instead to sync iCal with other users
on the same Mac you may need to properly set the
calendar files and folder permissions into the other users' Home folder.
After completing the previous step you will see the remote Mac's / other
user's calendars on the right side of the iSynCal window (in the latter case,
or if you have to sync iCal with an attached iPod/external drive, remember
to select This Mac in Options > List calendars found into...).
For further info about how iSynCal locates the calendar files and folders
please read this page.
- In the upper side of the iSynCal window, select the pair of calendars to
synchronize using the popup buttons Calendars folder path and Calendar name.
- The default settings are ok for most users, but you may want to set the
iSynCal sync method, direction and behavior that
better suit your needs.
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Please note that iCal must be closed on both computers before starting any synchronization
task, otherwise the new data can't be saved to the calendar files and data loss
may occur. iSynCal will automatically close iCal only on the local computer (the
one where iSynCal is running) when a synchronization is started, therefore you
must be sure that iCal is not running on the remote computer before any synchronization
is started!. If you want iSynCal to automatically quit iCal also on the
remote Mac please follow this link.
- Now click on the orange Sync Selected button to start a synchronization of
the previously selected calendars pair. A pre-synchronization report will
show a detailed list of the events/todo that will be affected by the current
synchronization, allowing the user to cancel the synchronization. Anyway,
the details of each synchronization are logged in the iSynCal log.
- Set up a MultiSync document to save multiple
calendars selection and their related sync settings. Using such documents,
with a single click of the mouse you can automatically mount the remote Mac's
disk and perform all the synchronizations listed into its MultiSync table.
You usually need to create a MultiSync document for each remote Mac to synchronize,
either a single MultiSync document to sync all or some of your calendars
with one or more users, or with an external
disk/iPod.
- Please note that the calendars selection in the upper side of the iSynCal
window and the Options drawer's sync settings are not saved into
a MultiSync document, only the content of the MultiSync and AutoMount tables
are saved, among with the Show pre-synchronization report and Alert on errors settings.
- You may set up one or more schedules to run
any MultiSync document's synchronizations at a specific time and/or with
a repeating time interval. You may even write your own AppleScript to
invoke a MultiSync synchronization.
- Last but not the least, read the examples page for
some detailed, practical info about the most common synchronization scenarios.