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Sandy events aren't showing up in Google Calendar over 4 and a half hours later. Maybe it's Google's fault. Maybe it's Sandy's. I don't know. I'm afraid, though, it's a make or break for me.

If this is a long-standing known issue with Google, however, then why would Sandy advertise that it could sync with Gcal on it's site? Obviously it can't so why get people's hopes up?

I've spent a few hours investigating Sandy today as a newbie but most of the things I've tried - email reminders, automatic refreshing of Sandy events in Google calendar - just don't work. Maybe they did for people in the past but they don't for me so I'm going to call it quits for a while and hope Sandy comes out of beta sooner than later.

Same here. I loved using it for the same reason above. Sync to Google calendar, then Google pushes to my work calendar which pushes it to my phone. (ridiculous I know) This worked fine for a month or so, but has stopped with both my RSS feeds and Google. I've refreshed a few times and it works for a while then nothing. Based upon above, it sounds more like a Google issue (Imagine that!) What would be a better solution for us users of that feed. Especially the mobile phone idea. (if Pocket outlook would allow access to that ics calendar feed.

I'm trying to like Sandy, but it isn't working out so well. It seems like this would be a fairly simple fix for Sandy. I have a Pocket PC that syncs my mobile calendar (both ways) with my Google Calendar. Yes, I know that "syncing" is different than a feed update, but the end result is the same... my mobile calendar is exactly the same as my Google calendar.

Since I can use Jott to add events to my Google Calendar and Jott will also send me reminders as well... I find myself using Jott and not Sandy.

Sandy is a good idea, but she won't be a great help until she can read/write my calendar. I'm not switching to hers.

jweaks

Google Calendar also doesn't support username/password authentication for subscribing to iCalendar feeds. ( iCal (Mac) and Outlook 2007 (PC) do.) – kevin1, on June 16, 2008 05:50

This is actually a problem with Google Calendar. It's occasionally slow or doesn't update at all, and people get frustrated.

The primary problem is that Google Calendar doesn't provide a way to force an immediate refresh of a feed that it's subscribed to. It really should. This would make it much easier for people to figure out the cause of any problems. It would be easy to see if the problem is how frequently Google Calendar refreshes the data it is subscribed to, rather than the problem being with the service that it is subscribed to.

As far as I know, the calendar feed is only one way. Every so often, Google Calendar is supposed to request a new version of the calendar feed. It's impossible for Sandy (or any other feed provider) to force Google Calendar to refresh it's data. So the problem is with Google. As an example, 30boxes provides a button that will force it to immediately update a feed that it is subscribed to. So this is a feature that other calendars have. (Note: A side effect of the one way connection makes it difficult, if not impossible, to modify Sandy events inside of Google Calendar.)

Currently, the only way to force Google Calendar to refresh a feed it is subscribed to is to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the feed you want to update. This is rather inconvenient. (See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...)
The only other option is to wait. Google Calendar seems to refresh the feeds it is subscribed to once every 3 hours or so. (Except when it's longer.)