Fixing a subscribed Calendar that is Out-of-Sync
Many of us have subscribed to iCal Calendars published by colleagues or coworkers only to find that sometimes it shows entries that either have not been deleted or changed by the owner. In other words the Publisher’s iCal information is different from the version you as the Subscriber see:
One option is to use the
Refresh (Right Mouse click OR CTRL key + Mouse click on
Calendar in question) option. In most cases it fixes the
problem:
However, there are cases in
which a Refresh has no effect. Lucky there is a way of
fixing it, it takes a few more steps. First we need to copy
the link (URL0 to the published calendar. We do this by
right Mouse clicking, or using the CTRL key + Mouse
clicking, on Calendar in question, and selecting the Copy
URL to Clipboard option:
Now we can delete the calendar:
The calendar is now gone:
Now we will re-subscribe to the
calendar by selecting from the iCal Menu bar Calendar >
Subscribe...:
A dialog window will open to
allow the entering of the URL for the published calendar:
Since we have copy the URL
previously to the clipboard all we have to do is press the
Apple (Command) key and the letter “V” key to paste the
value into the dialog box and click on the Subscribe
button:
A new window will open with
some default settings for the calendar:
Most of us will want to make
two changes, the first being to change the Auto-refresh
option to refresh every so often, e.g.. every 5 0r 15
minutes. The second change may be to change the default
color picked by iCal application:
The final step will be to click
on the OK button to finish the subscription process
resulting in the correct content identical to the
publisher’s calendar:
