My Orage synchronisation bodge-up didn't reallly work as Orage doesn't remember which archive file it last had between sessions, so here's take 2:
wget -nH -rK your_calendar_file_url -O ~/calendar/google.ics -a ~/calendar/google.log
mv ~/.config/xfce4/orage/orage.ics ~/.config/xfce4/orage/orage.ics.old
mv ~/calendar/google.ics ~/.config/xfce4/orage/orage.ics
Each line is of course a single line of code. Basically what the script does is:
1) uses wget to retrieve the google calendar file and save it in the directory ~/calendar as google.ics. It appends a log of the transaction to ~/calendar/google.log. The directory ~/calendar must exist and you need to create google.log with the touch command.
[If you do not want to append to the log file use -o in place of -a]
2) rename the existing orage.ics file to something else
3) move your downloaded google calendar to orage.ics
This seems to work but there seemed to be a delay on orage reading the ics file. My testing has been fairly minimal so far so it might still be somewhat sub-optimal.
I'll see how it goes.
Thanks!!
ReplyDeletethanks!!
ReplyDeleteHello Doug,
ReplyDeletethese lines really solved my problem. We've got 2013 (4 years gone now!) and apparently Xfce still has no native-syncable tool for Google calendar.
Basically, I could just go with your code, but I went a little further. Here are my 2 cents:
#!/bin/sh
# Synch Google Calender w/ Orage.
# Keyboard shortcut: SHIFT+ALT+K (Settings – Keyboard – KB-Shortcuts) …no cronjob needed!
# Source: http://knowledgegeek.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-orage-synchronisation-bodge-up-didnt.html
# (1)
wget -nH -rK https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/YOUR/GOOGLE-CREDENTIALS/basic.ics -O /media/SOMELOCALPATH/orage/googlecal.ics -a /media/SOMELOCALPATH/orage/googlecal.log
# (2)
mv ~/.local/share/orage/orage.ics /media/SOMELOCALPATH/orage/orage-backup.ics --backup
# (3)
cp /media/SOMELOCALPATH/orage/googlecal.ics ~/.local/share/orage/orage.ics
#
(1) Save Google Calender w/ wget, and append to transaction log.
Basically your code, but I wget it to /somelocalpath/ which sits on another volume. This way I always keep a backup of my Google calendar data, even if my main system would crash.
(2)Backup old orage.ics file to my local volume/path
I appended the --backup option. If the file exists, an additional file with .ics~ extension will be created. This gives me the opportunity to move .ics files to another location, from time to time.
I tried to run --suffix on it as well, to add a time stamp, but did not succeed. Any ideas?
(3) Create new orage.ics from googlecal.ics. Well, just the vanilla cp or mv
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(4) I saved this "orage-googlecal.sh" in my /SOMELOCALPATH/. To run it, I just need to press ALT+SHIFT+K (I'm German, so "Kalender" is my mnemonic).
To do so, I just ran Settings — Keyboard — KB-Shortcuts, added a new shortcut for
sh /media/SOMELOCALPATH/orage-google-cal.sh
and assigned my shortcut to it. Done :)
One last thing I need to figure out is the --suffix addition. Yes, I'm a n00b to CLI et al ;) If I could automagically add time stamps to my backup files, it would be perfect. Any hints are highly appreciated.
Cheers, Olaf
(Debian / Xfce4)