[ILUG] [OT?] Problems syncing Thunderbird Calendar to Google calendar via Lightning & Provider plugins

[John Kinsella]

I use  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ( Lucid Lynx) and this morning  updated to 
latest TBird  - 3.1.8 as part of an Ubuntu Update Mgr-prompted update.

Perhaps a coincidence but TBird now hangs on startup with a blank  
splash screen titled login to Google Calendar..

When I kill this splash screen (that presumably should contain a form 
for user id & password) TB starts up fine but the calendar is greyed out 
and the Google calendar does not appear as one of the calendars listed.

So obviously I couldn't use the Edit calendar properties menu to fix 
things..

Instead I used the config editor to reset Google calendar to be 
writeable - it had somehow been set to readonly.

I now *can* write new events to the calendar and they do migrate to my 
Google calendar - viewed via Firefox.

So syncing is working - but I cannot add new calendars (eg public 
calendars) and clearly setup is somewhat broken.

Googling tells me that problems like this may be caused by Google 
setting limits on # of calendar entries.

I also found a post suggesting that TB 3.1. breaks the Provider plugin 
that syncs with Google calendar..

So I have a still-usable setup but one that I dont entirely trust.

Any comments or suggetsions?

Thanks

John


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