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I need to sync an already-created calendar to gmail

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BDS1959
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OK - so, I work for a small I.T. Company, One of my clients has Thunderbird on two systems, and he would like to sync the calendars between them. The calendar is on the one system. It is using a gmail account. When I log-in to the gmail account via mail.google.com and check the calendar, there is nothing there! Obviously, the calendar that is being used on the workstation is not syncing to gmail. That's the main question/problem. Lightening is installed. Can anyone please let me know what I'm missing? I'm ASSUMING that, once I can see the calendar when logged-in to gmail online, then I can install Lightening on the second workstation and sync the calendar? Thank you in advance for any help.

OK - so, I work for a small I.T. Company, One of my clients has Thunderbird on two systems, and he would like to sync the calendars between them. The calendar is on the one system. It is using a gmail account. When I log-in to the gmail account via mail.google.com and check the calendar, there is nothing there! Obviously, the calendar that is being used on the workstation is not syncing to gmail. That's the main question/problem. Lightening is installed. Can anyone please let me know what I'm missing? I'm ASSUMING that, once I can see the calendar when logged-in to gmail online, then I can install Lightening on the second workstation and sync the calendar? Thank you in advance for any help.

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Toad-Hall
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Have you also installed the 'Provider for Google Calendar' addon? Good info here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-lightning-google-calendar

BDS1959
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Hi - Thank you for the reply! I didn't have the "Provider..." addon installed - I did install it. However, it seems like maybe I didn't word the "problem" correctly? It looks like the addon allows syncing from gmail TO Thunderbird. What I need to do is, first, sync an existing Thunderbird calendar TO gmail, THEN, sync the calendar to Thunderbird on a second workstation. The current calendar that I want to sync TO Thunderbird does seem to be associated with the gmail account; I just can't figure out how to get it to gmail. I didn't want to try to create a new calendar as the instructions say because I don't want to loose the existing one! Does that make sense? How to I sync, first, FROM Thunderbird TO gmail? THANKS!!!

christ1
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It doesn't work that way. You can only sync a network calendar, i.e. your Google Calendar. Then syncing is both ways. You cannot sync a local existing calendar with your Google Calendar though. So you'd need to export your existing local calendar in .ics format, and then import that into your Google Calendar using Lightning.

BDS1959
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OK. I understand, but yet I don't!  :( The existing calendar is already in Thunderbird. So... do I export that calendar to an .ics file, then, in the mail.google.com account online, import that .ics file? Then how do I make sure the calendar is syncing back to the first system, and also to the second? The users only use Thunderbird; they never actually go to mail.google.com In other words, the way I see it is that Google is just the "holding" place for the calendar? If they make a change to the Thunderbird calendar on System-A, though, they want to have it sync with the Thunderbird calendar on System-B and vice-versa. Maybe I'm still not quite making it clear? Or I [still?] have a mental block? THANKS!!!

christ1
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The existing calendar is already in Thunderbird. So... do I export that calendar to an .ics file, then, in the mail.google.com account online, import that .ics file?

You don't do anything in the mail.google.com account online.

You do both, the export of the local calendar, and the import into your Google Calendar in Lightning. This assumes you already did create the Google Calendar in Lightning and linked it to your Google Calendar on the https://calendar.google.com/ server.

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