How to Keep iCal & Sunfire Calendar in Sync
Both Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird -- sometimes mistakenly called "Sunfire" -- feature support for loading and publishing calendars in the WebDAV format. By utilizing WebDAV in both applications, you can keep your iCal and Sunbird calendars perfectly in sync. This is useful if you need to keep iCal on your Mac in sync with Sunbird on a PC or if your preferred desktop calendar application is Sunbird but you need schedule data synced to iCal so that you can sync the calendar to your iPhone or another mobile device. In order to take advantage of WebDAV sync, you will need to register an account with a third-party WebDAV server to act as a bridge between iCal and Sunbird.
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Instructions
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Launch a Web browser and navigate to Box.net, GMX.com or iCal Exchange to register a free account with a WebDAV host. All three services provide free WebDAV storage to users.
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Launch iCal. Right-click the calendar you want to sync and select "Publish."
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Click the "Publish on" drop-down menu and select "A Private Server."
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Enter a single-word title for the calendar in the "Publish calendar as" text box. This title will be the name of the calendar in the WebDAV address.
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Enter the your WebDAV server address as the "Base URL" and enter the user name and password associated with that account in the appropriate text fields. The WebDAV server addresses for each of the free services are listed below. In iCal Exchange, replace "[User Name]" with your iCal Exchange user name.
Box.net: https://www.box.net/dav
GMX: https://webdav.mc.gmx.net/
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Click the check box beside "Publish changes automatically" and select appropriately if you want to publish "To do items," "Alarms" and "Attachments." Click "Publish" to publish your iCal to the WebDAV server.
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Launch Mozilla Sunbird. Click "File" and select "Subscribe to Remote Calendar."
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Click the radio button beside "On the Network" and then click "Continue."
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Enter the address of your hosted calendar in the "Location" text box and then click "Continue." Replace "[Calendar Name]" with the single-word title you selected for your iCal calendar.
Box.net: https://www.box.net/dav/[Calendar Name].ics
GMX: https://webdav.mc.gmx.net/[Calendar Name].ics
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Enter a name for the imported calendar and then click "Continue." Sunbird prompts you to enter account credentials for the calendar. Enter your WebDAV host user name and password and then click "OK."
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Click "Done." Your iCal calendar will be synced to Sunbird. Any changes made to the calendar in iCal or Sunbird will be automatically synced.
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