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mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

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[SOLVED] Google calendars in Thunderbird with the lightning extension

Recently I found that the google calendars that had previously been working for a long time with the xml calendar definitions in the lightning extension using the gdata provider extension no longer worked, and I had been unable to fathom out the necessary fix, or to understand if this was a bug in recent versions of Thunderbird. However today I discovered that in fact it seems that Google appears to have dropped support for that method of getting to the calendar url, and it is now necessary to use the caldav type of calendar using a different url to define it.  The fix for me was to "unsubscribe" to my existing calendar within Thunderbird once the calendar tab was open, to remove the existing (i.e. old) calendar, and then right click make a new calendar of type caldav using a url of the form

https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/calid/events

where calid is the full gmail address for the associated calendar as in the description at:

https://developers.google.com/google-ap … dav_server

Maybe this will help anyone else who has been struggling to resolve the error that has recently been coming up when Thunderbird opens if you have been using the lightning extension to access and display google calendars.

Last edited by mcloaked (2016-01-30 15:39:39)

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