Hosting calendars on Google
The publisher of a calendar is the host and the subscriber is the client. When syncing with Google Calendar, your calendars can be hosted locally in BusyCal and published to Google, or the calendars can be hosted on Google and subscribed to in BusyCal, or a combination. To simplify things, you may wish to consolidate the calendars and host them all on Google.
You can move a calendar that is hosted locally on your Mac to Google Calendar, or you can merge it with an existing calendar on Google. Following are instructions for each.
To move a local calendar to Google
For this example, let's say you have a calendar hosted on your Mac called Home that you want to host on Google. Here's how you can move it to Google:
- Export the local Home calendar by selecting the calendar and choosing File > Export, and save it to your desktop. After successfully exporting the Home calendar, delete it by control-clicking it and selecting Delete.
- Login to Google Calendar on the web, click the "Create" link below "My calendars" and create a new calendar called "Home".
- In BusyCal, subscribe to the Home calendar you just created on Google Calendar. Then, double-click the file you exported in step 1 to import it. When prompted, choose to import the events into the Home calendar (which is now hosted on Google). This will add the events from the old Home calendar to the new Home calendar on Google.
To merge a local calendar with a calendar on Google
For this example, let's say you have a calendar hosted on your Mac called "Home", and you want to merge it with an existing calendar on Google called "Fred". Here's how to do it:
- In BusyCal, subscribe to the Fred calendar hosted on Google.
- Export the local Home calendar by selecting the calendar and choosing File > Export, and save it to your desktop. After successfully exporting the Home calendar, delete it by control-clicking it and selecting Delete.
- Double-click the file you exported in step 1 to import it. When prompted, choose to import the events into the Fred calendar (which is hosted on Google). This will add the events from the old Home calendar to the Fred calendar on Google.