This post will show you how to sync your Google calendar to iCal without delegates, so you can clean up your calendar a little bit.

My old iCal on OS X would easily sync with my calendars on Google, and each calendar would show up in the sidebar in a simple dropdown. So my personal calendar would look like this:

> GOOGLE:PERSONAL

[] Personal

The GOOGLE:PERSONAL was just text with a dropdown on the left, and then there was a checkbox next to Personal that let me show and hide the calendar. Same went for all my calendars.

Then I got a new computer and started installing things and setting my computerized life back up. I got to the calendar bit and things got messy. I opened iCal, went to the preferences box, went to accounts, and added my Google account. Only one of my five google calendars showed up in the sidebar. Then I went over to the Delegation box in the accounts preference pane, and clicked refresh, and all my calendars showed up. Sweet. I enabled them, only to find a big mess over on the left sidebar in iCal. Each calendar showed up as a delegate, under a subheading with the same name and a different color text. So it looked like this…

[] GOOGLE:PERSONAL

[] Personal

So the GOOGLE:PERSONAL was next to a check box and was in brown text, and the Personal was next to another checkbox in yellow text. And all five calendars had different text colors and checkboxes everywhere. Huh?

I read up on Google’s help and found that what I had just done to add all my calendars into iCal was now the recommended way to do it. The only thing is, it didn’t work as well as the old way. The old way, I remembered suddenly, involved a little app called Calaboration. I couldn’t remember where it came from, but I searched around online and used it to add all my calendars to iCal. Worked like a charm. I don’t know what happened or why Google axed Calaboration. Worked great for me, in my situation.

If you’re having Delegate issues, you might try the old way. Here are a few links to Calaboration:

http://calaboration.en.softonic.com/mac/download, http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10905285 and http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/29881/calaboration.