The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Anyone using GCALDaemon tool for calendar sync?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by BryanL, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. BryanL

    BryanL Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    214
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Does anyone use this? I am trying to sync my Rainlendar calendar with Google Calendar but I am having problems with installing. I followed all the steps:
    A) Set the 'file.enabled' property to 'true'
    B) Set the 'file.google.username' property to your Gmail address
    C) Set the 'file.google.password' property to your encoded password
    D) Set the 'file.private.ical.url' property to iCal URL, without protocol and hostname (see below)

    but when I open the standalone-start.bat file, I get an error at the bottom that shows like this:

    [​IMG]

    Anyone know how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
     
    BryanL, Aug 5, 2008
    #1
  2. BryanL

    BryanL Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    214
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    No one syncs their calendars?
     
    BryanL, Aug 6, 2008
    #2
  3. ProntoR2

    ProntoR2 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    190
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I've used it for awhile and I remember there was a missing step in their walkthrough, let me dig through my notes and I'll edit this post with what info I have.

    --------------
    UPDATE:

    Do you have the config file and the rainlendar ical file pointing to the same directory? (see images)

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]
    --------------
    UPDATE:

    You might also have slashes (/ & \) in the wrong direction in your config file.
     
    ProntoR2, Aug 6, 2008
    #3
  4. BryanL

    BryanL Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    214
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    It worked for a bit, on the initial sync, but now when I try to add or remove stuff on both Rainlendar or GoogleCal, it wont sync. It seems like I have to do it manually each time.
     
    BryanL, Aug 6, 2008
    #4
  5. ProntoR2

    ProntoR2 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    190
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Check your intervals:

    [​IMG]

    And make sure you've run the install-service:

    [​IMG]
     
    ProntoR2, Aug 6, 2008
    #5
  6. BryanL

    BryanL Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    214
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Ok so after numerous tests, I can make it so if I add something to rainlendar, it will go to google. But if I add something on google, it wont go to rainlendar. Infact, the thing I added to google will get erased as the google calendar mirrors the rainlendar exactly. So whatever was on google but not on rainlendar gets erased.

    And I can only sync it manually. I have to click the Sync-now bin file.
     
    BryanL, Aug 7, 2008
    #6
  7. ProntoR2

    ProntoR2 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    190
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Did you make sure to install the service and check your update intervals like I mentioned in my last post?
     
    ProntoR2, Aug 7, 2008
    #7
  8. BryanL

    BryanL Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    214
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Yup, i tried to click it again and it told me:

    Wrapper : CreateService failed - The specified service already exists. <0x431>
    Press any key to continue. . .
     
    BryanL, Aug 7, 2008
    #8
  9. ProntoR2

    ProntoR2 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    190
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Could you PM me and I'll try to help you out more? I'm sure we can figure this out...
     
    ProntoR2, Aug 7, 2008
    #9
  10. togmkn

    togmkn Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Sorry for the bump, but I've been having problems with GCalDaemon too, only a different problem. When I get to step six in this tutorial, instead of getting what they show in the screenshot, I get this message:

    log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.gcaldaemon.core.Configurator).
    log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

    Any help? I'm using a university campus connection, which may have some things disabled. Is this problem something I can fix, or will I just not be able to use GCalDaemon? I've never heard of log4j, but it seems like some unix-craziness. :confused:
     
    togmkn, Sep 3, 2008
    #10