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# Thursday, April 24, 2008

New Google Calendar Sync, Still doesn’t work

According to Google, they fixed a complaint I had with their Calendar Sync Add-in for Outlook.

Previously, your Google Calendar email address needed to be the organizer or an attendee of your Microsoft Outlook events for the Outlook events to sync to your Google Calendar. Now, when you choose to do a 2-way sync or a 1-way sync from Outlook calendar to Google Calendar, all of your Outlook events will be synced to your Google Calendar.

Well, I just tried it, it sync’s more events, but still not all of them. And it’s completely random which events it syncs.

I don’t get it. How hard is it to ask Outlook for every event on the calendar? I’m baffled that this didn’t even work the first time they released it. Programming for Outlook is pretty hard and stuff, but sheesh.

I think, at the very least, they don’t handle exceptions to recurring meetings correctly.

Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008    Permalink    Comments [7]  View blog reactions

 

Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:11:07 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Same experience - actually, an increasingly random selection of events from Outlook Calendar and getting slower each time it syncs. Something not quite right there!
Friday, April 25, 2008 2:05:36 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
This is probably Microsoft's fault some how. I mean Google are awesome man and can do no wrong ;o)
Andy
Friday, April 25, 2008 10:18:51 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
HA! You are the top link at the Google Blog Announcement.
Friday, April 25, 2008 3:55:12 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Can Google Calendar be Sync'ed with a Pocket PC??
Please let me know.
Thanks,
John
John R. Ramos
Friday, April 25, 2008 5:05:49 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Yep, same here. Misses a bunch of events. I wish they would test it properly.
Bill Collin
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:40:14 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hell I can't even download it without getting an error
Andi
Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:40:17 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

We just launched KiGoo, a free tool that allows Google users to fully manage (create, read, update and delete) their Calendar and Contacts from MS Outlook.

Also KiGoo manage the Free Busy information of your Gmail contacts for appointments if they shared their FB status.

Currently we support Windows XP and office 2007.

http://www.getkigoo.com

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