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How To Move From iCal To Google Calendar

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I have read an article on MacWorld, which presents the steps that are needed when you want to move from iCal to Google Calendar. There are many possibilies in the Calendars world and you can learn how to move from one calendar to another, not necessarily from iCal to Google. You will see what are the steps required for you to move the content you have in the iCal program towards another program and also you will see how to take a content, which implies dates, birthdays, important events and so on to a Google Calendar.

If you combine those two, you will find out how to switch from a program to another one in no time. It would be alright if you could backup the data you have there, so that in case of a problem, the information to be saved. First of all, you have to know that Google Calendar is a free choice for all the people who want a powerful, yet easy to use software. So, all of you who are tired of iCal can move towards a free solution powered by Google.

In order to move the data from one calendar to another, you must have an account on both sites or in other words, use the both applications. Obviously, you use iCal. Now you need to use a Google account. You have many options to choose from. Since you want to use this calendar because it is free, I suggest you to go to the free version as well, of the Google Apps account. You can use the Calendar account connected to the Google account you have created. After all, we are in the Web 2.0 era, right?

Create an account. Use a username and a password and then log in to Google. The first time when you enter, you will be presented the features of the account. Logically, you are interested in the Calendar features, so you will move to the Calendar, which has a blank space, filled with nothing, since you haven’t move anything yet from iCal. It is easy to work with Calendar. Click on one day and then add an event. Write the event’s name and provide some description, but only if you want. You can allow your friends access to your calendar, if you want them to know where you will be on a certain date. This can be done now on almost every social network, but it is a feature introduced by Google, with their calendar. When you have done editing the event, the time, the hour, the dress that you are gonna wear and other things like these, click Save to save the event in your Events pane.

On iCal, you can have many calendars. If you want to move the content of every single calendar, you have to repeat these operations for as many calendars as you have. Go to the File menu, choose File and click Export. That is pretty complicated, right? Joking. When you are on your Calendar account, click Settings and click the Calendars tab. On the Import Calendar link, you have to click on the link you have generated from your iCal application. If you have many events set on the iCal, you may wait a little longer until the transfer is done and then go back to transfer another calendar, if you have more on iCal and if you want to move with all of your events to Google Calendar. It is a good option to use only one calendar, whatever that calendar is, because you can get a bit confused by the programs, if you will set them both to run and announce you when you have a birthday party or a wedding.

 

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