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Authored by: meikokun on Apr 17, '05 05:44:06AM

fair point - but it cannot be out of the realms of possibility to have ical check a calendar more than the one-time-on-opening scenario. As I recall, it does this with subscribed-to calendars in any case (I haven't used one recently so working from foggy memory here) but if ical can manually be asked to check a remote calendar, and update the local contents as a result - through the 'refresh' option - then how tricky can it be to at least fudge the process and make it applescriptable to any refresh speed you choose (or cron-job the action)? Better still of course is to give a possible default refresh option that's quicker than the current fifteen minutes within the app itself.
In summary, it's clear if what you say is true, that ical doesn't read on-the-fly that it's possible to make it read more often than once on opening.
It's also clear that it currently saves as you type.
The only thing that seems to be stopping apple from implementing this must be financial - hey, it worked for me; several years after being disguted that apple made .mac a paid-for service (and me losing use of my nice .mac mail addy in the process), I've taken out a .mac subscription with the sole purpose of syncing my laptop and several office computers. The buggers at apple, with their evil capitalist ways! ;)

thinking about it, I believe there is a shareware app which does something like this, I'm off to have a peek.
Cheers
dd



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Authored by: meikokun on Apr 17, '05 05:18:17PM

here's the app; http://ww2.unime.it/flr/isyncal/en/how_sync.html
that's the 'here comes the science' bit. It would appear you are correct as far as this app is concerned, so the quest continues....



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