The same initial steps described above can be followed to sync a Yahoo Calendar with Lightning in Thunderbird. If you want to change the basic properties of the calendar, you can right click on it.įrom here, you can change the first set of options for the calendar, and you can also choose how often the calendar is refreshed. Lightning will now sync your Google Calendar to Thunderbird for you to view, edit and work with however you choose.

Enter your login information for the account and click “Ok.” Upon clicking finish, a new window will pop-up asking you to input your username and password for the calendar you wish to sync. You can now name your calendar in Thunderbird along with choosing a color for it, choosing whether to show your alarms or not as well as associating an e-mail address with the calendar. They are in the form of [name of You can find this information in the Calendar Settings section of Google.Ĭlick “Next” once you have entered in the Location. If you have multiple calendars on Google, you will have to input individual calendar IDs. This is usually your login e-mail address. Your Google Calendar ID is simply the Google e-mail address you use for the primary Calendar. For Location, you want to type in the following: You want to choose “CalDAV” as the calendar type for Google. For a Google Calendar, you want to make sure you click the circle next to “On the Network.” Then, click “Next.” Thunderbird has made it easy to walk through the process of creating a new calendar with Lightning.

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