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Share one iCal file between multiple users on one machine
Authored by: zokdok on Oct 27, '03 03:24:55AM

I have tried this solution (before it was posted) on the previous release of iCal, and that didn't worked as iCal then replaced the file (even the alias) with a new calendar..

Haven't tried it with iCal 1.5, I was working on some other solution as this solutions has some drawbacks when using over a server (like when people are using it at the same time..)



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Share one iCal file between multiple users on one machine
Authored by: robg on Oct 27, '03 07:52:18AM

Did you use an alias, or a symbolic link?

-rob.



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Share one iCal file between multiple users on one machine
Authored by: zokdok on Oct 28, '03 04:09:47AM

Symbolic link... I'm not quiet into the jargon.. :)

ln -s ....



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Share one iCal file between multiple users on one machine
Authored by: forman on Apr 07, '04 07:28:20PM

This is correct. iCal will delete symbolic links and replace them with a normal file (this is a very bad thing to do in the Unix world).

However, if you link the entire "~/Library/Calendars" directory, it will work!

In summary, link the parent directory and not the individual files.

Michael.

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