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multiple google calendars in ical osx lion and mountain lion

How to show multiple google calendars in osx lion and mountain lion

in osx snow leopard it was possible to get multiple google calendars in your ical without using the delegates functionality.

in osx lion its not possible (that I know of, and I have tried)
but in osx lion you might notice that you can only see your primary google calendar.

to fix this you will need to use delegates.

if you dont yet have a google calendar setup in ical yet, then its easy:

once you have your account setup then you will notice that it hasnt imported every calendar.

from a page thats well hidden in the google forums and is actually to do with iphones (i needed to do this step to get the delegates to show on my mac anyway…)

By default only your primary calendar will be synced to your device. You can sync additional calendars by visiting the following page from any web browser:

https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect

(Google Apps users can go to https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/your_domain/iphoneselect, replacing ‘your_domain’ with your actual domain name.)
Select the calendars you’d like to sync, and click Save. The selected calendars will display on your device at the time of the next sync.

you need to visit that page from your mac, and click all the calendars you want to sync.

once you have selected the calendars you want, return to ical

you will now have all of your google calendars in your ical on osx lion!

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  • Guillaume

    Thanks, I’ve been looking for this for so long :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/scbonduk Simon Bond

    Only as delegates though, which sucks! I mean, none of this is actually necessary because if you set-up a Google account in iCal and go to delegates then they’re there already, just need ticking.

  • Leslie

    bless you! Couldn’t figure out why I lost all my delegates quite suddenly on my iOS devices (and frankly still don’t know why it happened), but this got them all back. Thank you for the link!

  • David

    Your a great man! Saved me a ton of headache!

  • rick

    I just had to redo this because of some syncing issues, and what happens now is the delegates just won’t sync. They appear just fine in calendar, but I get no data behind them. Ugh.

  • JC

    Thank you for the info. I was able to see them in independent windows but this allows me to see all in the primary window at once. I love it. I could never get this to work correctly before.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mark.westmoquette Mark Westmoquette

    I have OSX 10.7 and iCal 5.0.3, and I’ve been syncing with Google calendar ok for quite some time. However, recently (last month or so) I’ve been getting the issue of duplicate calendar entries. When I look under my calendar listing, it shows my calendars both under the “Google” heading, and under the “Delegates” heading (see attached screengrab). If they’re both selected I get everything twice. If I switch off all the google ones, they switch back on randomly (annoying). Any ideas? Thanks.

  • Corey

    I am running 10.7.5, and I had no problem adding an additional Google calendar and have the Mac Sync Services immediately recognize the new calendar and its (just 1 for now) event. Seems like Apple has fixed this and the workaround is no longer required?