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I currently use MobileMe to sync my calendars between my Macs and iPhone. I'm thinking about switching to Google's CalDAV, but I'm not sure if the calendars will be updated if iCal on my Mac or the calendar app on my iPhone isn't running. In other words, will it do background sync'ing?

I know about the other services like Spanning Sync and BusyCal, but the whole point in going CalDAV is to get something free.

Burgi
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churnd
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I don't know about the Mac, but CalDAV calendars on the iPhone are synced in the background.

You can specify how often this occurs by going to Settings->Mail,Contacts,Calendar->Fetch New Data. From that menu if you go into the Advanced menu you can specify which of your calendars will be automatically synced by setting them to 'Fetch'.

jwaddell
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No, CalDAV in iCal requires you to open the application for it to sync.

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Don't know if anyone's still bothered but one option (which I've just done, because I couldn't find any true background sync options) is to remove iCal's dock icon (Dock Dodger), and set it as a startup item.

I've combined this with QuickCal (awesome) and the Google Calendar widget, so I never have to open iCal :-)

Jamie Goodwin
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