Re: sharing a calendar profile between two computers
- From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:47:04 -0400
On Monday 23 October 2006 18:26, H.S. wrote:
Hello,
I am planning to use lightnight (or sunbird). But I would need to keep
the appointments in sync between my home PC and lab computers. In my
home, I use Linux (Ubuntu) and in my university, we have Windows as well
as Linux computers.
I was wondering, how do I keep my appointments in sync between the two
locations? Can it be as simple as copying the relevant files from my
profile to a usb stick? At the end of the day, I can take that data to
my home and modify/edit it and then take the new data to university the
next day. Is this is too simplistic and is there are better method to
achieve this objective?
It might be fun to try - but I wouldn't expect this to be easy. The problem
with the USB stick idea is that it's not really 'syncing', you're just
copying. You would have to be very careful to never make an edit after you
copy the files to the USB stick on either end, or it'll disappear. And if
you aren't using the exact same software on both ends it's not likely going
to work either. Cross platform versions of the same software may not even
use the same file format and/or locations. You would have to be pretty
meticulous (i.e. it might be more trouble than it's worth)
I've tried a couple of times to keep my home linux box in sync with my Mac at
work via a Palm, and I've run into similar problems. Sooner or later you
edit an appointment on both ends at the same time, and something gets
whacked. To boot, because they don't quite interpret the fields the same way
the data is never quite the same on both ends anyway.
In my case I decided that I'd keep one system set up to sync to the Palm and
don't store calendar info on the other. If I need the info I can always
access the Palm whereever I am anyway.
I'm not current on Sunbird, but many clients understand at least most of the
iCal standard, including Google calendars. With Google as a 'go between' it
might work. Heck, depending on your needs just using the Google calendar via
a browser might be all you need - especially if the number of computers you
need to access it on grows...
Just as a PS, what's 'nightlight' ? Even a quite Google didn't show me
anything that looked apropos.
HTH
Brian
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