The calendar is momentarily not available

Sunbird 0.9 on Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I am trying to subscribe to this calendar: <webcal://www.meetup.com/longislandroleplayers/calendar/ical/Long+Island+Role+Players+Meetup/>. It works in other calendaring programs (I've tested Outlook, Windows Calendar, and Windows Live Calendar), and I've successfully subscribed to another calendar <webcal://icalx.com/public/icalshare/US%20Holidays.ics>. Sunbird doesn't show the events in the calendar; it puts a bang next to the calendar name, whose title text reads "The calendar <NAME> is momentarily not available." Can anyone te

Synchronization of Events With Sunbird

I have Sunbird 0.9 and my OS is Windows XP SP3. I have Sunbird 0.9 installed on two PCs which are not networked together. Is there a way to synchronize the events that are posted in each of the two PCs? As I said, the two PCs are not networked together (one PC at home, the other one at work) but they both have access to the Internet. Ideally, I am looking for an add-on similar to Xmarks which I use to synchronize Firefox's bookmarks between the two computers. Thanks. -- tb

Sunbird does not preserve event UIDs over WebDAV

Hello, When using Sunbird 0.9 (and previous versions) to subscribe to a remote calendar over WebDAV, events are sent back to the WebDAV server with changed UIDs after any updates in Sunbird. This looks intentional to me, since the original UIDs are there, but they have an added (random?) number on the end. My reading of RFC 2445, section 4.8.4.7 is that Sunbird's behavior violates that UIDs should be "persistent." Every single update is sent with changed UIDs, so on the server side, the same events are duplicated for each and every update from the Sunbird client. Can someo

Task (todo) sharing/exchange with Kontact/Korganizer

Good afternoon, Is there any production-stable way to obtain transparent tasks sharing (multi-user sync) with other Lightning AND Kontact clients (with usage or fields restrictions I guess) ? Meaning: all users being connected at the same time, whenever one user creates a new task in one of the calendars, then a couple of minutes later, it appears on the desks of other users who subscribed to this calendar, in read+write mode. I retained the SyncKolab route, since it would permit to keep the data on the IMAP server (no extra server, no extra/public service required). Howe

show birthday from addressbook in calendar

Sorry, in case I´m asking for an existing answer. I´m not to familiar with browsing in newsgroups: How can I see birthdays entered in my address book contacts in the calendar view of lightning? Best regards Theo

Tab Order - Change

No answer in Thunderbird group so maybe it is better off in here (as it is only because of the Calendar being open that I have this issue). Is there anyway to change the order tabs open in Thunderbird? Currently I keep my 'Mail/All Folders' and 'Calendar' tabs open all the time. 'Mail/All Folders' is first tab, calendar is second tab. If I open an email message in a tab, read it and then close it, the focus goes onto the last tab in the list which is the calendar. What I want it to do is always go back to my 'Mail/All Folders' list and not the calendar. Any way to do it? Or mayb

Lightning incompatible for my system.

When trying to add Lightning 1.0b1 to Thunderbird 3.0, I get the following message: "Lightning" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem. I'm running KDE 4.3.5 on openSUSE 11.2. -- Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

Scripted installation of plugins....

Hi, When we use windows sysprep to prepare a disk image prior to mirroring to multiple computers, sysprep strips off the Lightning and some other plugins' functionality from Thunderbird (files are in user profile). Does it exist a way to install and configure plugins from a script once the user logs in for the first time? In our case we want Lightning, Google Calendar sync and Google address book sync installed and also configured with correct google account data from the same script, if possible. Thanks for comments and tips about how to solve this regards jake

Repairing CALENDAR DATA to previous or DEFAULT STATE

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080906040106050006090406 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need to know how to reset my profiles calendar data to the state it was in prior to an add-on's installation. I upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and all but 2 of my add-ons were disabled. Lightning in particular updated my calendar profile data. So when I rolled back to Thunderbird 2.x the new calendar data created by Lightning 1.0 causes Lightning 0.9 to be disabled upon restart. I need to know how to reset my profiles c

Lightning 0.9/1.0b1 and Thunderbird calendar data

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030402090803060700090508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, My name is Paul and I have been using Thunderbird since 0.x. I have been using version 2.x for the longest time possible, with no issues. I have attempted to "upgrade" to 3.0 and found that, as usual with mozilla software, it broke 98% of my add-ons. So I went back to 2.0. I was able to recover all but one add-on: yours. Lightning 1.0b1 during it's install "updated" my profile calendar data without giving me the

importing and using lightening for TB

I'm new to TB and therefore also new to calendar. I've installed it to my TB3 but is there somewhere where I can read about how to use it? For instance to get these weekly views I see on its website? Also, I've used ReminderFox till now (under Firefox). Is there a way to transfer the data I have under ReminderFox to Lightning? Does Lightning have an import function? Jeff

Recurring tasks

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Synchronize between two computers in Home network.

I have a desktop and a laptop with TB3.0 and Lightning 1.0b.1. Both computers are running Windows XP SP3. Is there some way that I can synchronize the address books and calendars on the two computers with out using and online calendar. It would be nice to click and icon and have the same information on both computers.

Export to ics fails

I have one user that is unable to export his calendar from thunderbird/lightning to a .ics file. The calendar appears just fine but going through the export process results in a zero byte file. This is on a Fedora 12 system with thunderbird 3.0.1-1 x86_64 and thunderbird-lightning 1.0-0.18.20090916hg x86_64. Other accounts and systems with the same versions installed export to .ics just fine. I've launched thunderbird from a shell and see no errors generated to the console. Could there be something in this user's calendar that is causing the export to fail? If so how do

Calendar in background

Is there a way to have Lightning alerts appear when Thunderbird is closed? I need alerts that popup similar to the old Microsoft Works Calendar. -- Roy

unable to load non UTF-8 .ics from website

I can not use the Calender from http://www.serienjunkies.de/docs/serienplaner.ics because ist is not utf-8. Is there any solution? The error Console says: Warnung: Fehler beim Lesen von Daten f�r Kalender: Serienplaner. Er wurde daher in den schreibgesch�tzten Modus gesetzt, da �nderungen in diesem Kalender wahrscheinlich Datenverlust verursachen. Sie k�nnen diese Einstellung �ndern, indem Sie 'Kalender bearbeiten' w�hlen. Fehlercode: CAL_UTF8_DECODING_FAILED. Beschreibung: Ein Fehler ist beim Dekodieren einer iCalendar(ics)-Datei als UTF-8 aufgetreten. �berpr�fen Sie, dass die Dat

Suggestion for lightning in Thunderbird

I would like to suggest an option of intergrating Lightning into Thunderbird as a seperate "tab" instead of the window being located on the side of the screen or having to hiding the window. As for the Persona function, I have applied it and works well. The only problem I encounter when selecting one is the "wear it" button is not appearing? Regards

event time display

Folks, I am running Ubuntu 9.10, Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 and Lightning .9 . I would like the time displayed in 24hr format in the events. While I have the system set for 24hr time and the time picker displays 24 hr. time the event display is 12hr. time. Is there a way to config. this properly? thanks, wil

Lightning affecting Thunderbird 3's ability to interpret digitally signed emails?

After upgrading to Thunderbird 3 and Lightning 1.0 beta 1, my digitally signed emails are not appearing as being digitally signed in Thunderbird (via either the little envelope icon in the header, or via the View > Message Security Info menu item). If I disable Lightning in the add-ons window and restart, the digital signatures appear properly. Re-enabling Lightning causes the digital signatures to disappear. Is this a known issue or is it something strange that I'm experiencing alone?

importing ics calendars into Lightning

I am using Sm 2.0.2 and Lightning 1.0b2pre and it works OK with a calendar I made for personal events. I wished to install aics file by importing it into Lightning but nothing happens. I wished to have a calendar of Nebraska Husker sport event dates and one of National holidays. Could someone give me some guidance? Thanks -- You either teach people to treat you with dignity and respect, or you don't. This means you are partly responsible for the mistreatment that you get at the hands of someone else.

Lightning won't install

The latest built of lightning won't install on some computers. Updating from previous versions seems to work fine, clean installation simply fails with error Error: document.getElementById(id) is null Source File: chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xml Line: 417 It's a active directory environment with application folders redirected to network file share.

update for SM 2.0.2

Will there be an update for Lightning for the new updated SM 2.0.2? -- You either teach people to treat you with dignity and respect, or you don't. This means you are partly responsible for the mistreatment that you get at the hands of someone else.

Main password

When i start TB, it asks me to type main password two times into two different dialog boxes that appears in a second. The dialog box used by Lightning appears fist, then appears the TB main windows (that covers the first dialog box) and then the dialog box that requires the main password for the TB mail accounts. If i enter the main password in the second dialog box, TB checks mails and begin its normal operations. Lightning waits until i enter the main password another time in the firse appeared dialog box. Is there a way to let TB to ask for the main password only one time?

reminders not working on new profile & import

I had to recreate my profile recently, but cannot figure out how to get the ReminderFox reminders to start popping up again. I've gone through all the menu configuration windows with no results or evident cause for failure. I did have to separately repoint the mail folders after the new profile, but the same technique doesn't seem to give similar results. The reminders WERE popping up with the new profile, but after I restored the mail folders, the reminder popups ceased. All of my calendar dates and reminder settings for each event appear to be intact otherwise. Would like v

Task pane

Greetings, I am hoping that someone out there can assist me... I have the event/task pane displayed while in Mail mode. The tasks being displayed are ALL tasks, even ones for a future date. Is there any setting that allows only current day tasks to show in the task pane? I don't really want to see the tasks that are coming up months down the road...just to have it tell me what I need to do today. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Tasks

Are there instructions somewhere that describe how to use the "Task" function? I find it baffling, illogical, and nearly incomprehensible.

Lightning 1.0beta1 release candidate is available

Hey guys, after all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp's posts[1][2], we have finally succeeded (at least on the Lightning front). Candidate builds for Lightning 1.0 beta1 in 37 languages are available as of now for: * Windows[3] * Linux (32bit)[4] * Mac OS X[5] A corresponding build of the Google Calendar Provider is also available at those locations. To install these builds in Thunderbird 3, please follow these steps: 1. Download the build for your operating system to a folder on your

Toodledo Integration

Does anyone know of any plans for integrating or interfacing with Toodledo (www.toodledo.com) for task management?

Can edit and delete calendar events in Thunderbird, but can't post new ones that sync

I tried searching for an answer to this one, but didn't find it. So...grateful if anyone can figure this out: I have Lightning set up to sync my Google calendar with Thunderbird 2.0. I have both the Lightning and bidirectional add-ons installed. Thunderbird pulls up the calendar from Google just fine. 1) THE GOOD: If I edit or delete an event created in Google Calendar in Thunderbird, the information syncs just fine. 2) THE BAD: If I create a new event in Thunderbird/Lightning, the new event DOES NOT sync with Google calender. I can't figure this one out. Any ideas would be mu

CalDav & Google Calendar

Using TB3.0 and Lightning 1.0b2pre (12/13/2009) on Windows XP SP3: I was using the "Provider for Google Calendar" extension, and it was working fine with both my own calendar and another calendar for which I have full read permissions. But ... I decided to try CalDav and hopefully do away with the extension. CalDav works fine for viewing both my own and the other calendar. But ... I am unable to write to the Google Calendar from Lightning. That is, I can create an event on my Google calendar via Firefox, and it appears in my Google Calendar (linked via CalDav) in Lightni

Howto for google calendar and Lightning 1.0pre ??

Hi, I use extensively seamonkey (2.0.x), with lightning 1.0pre, and I get issues with Googlecalendar. Is there a how to somewhere to help configuring lightning ? (I think I am OK on the google side). Last point: what is the protocol used ? (I "think" it is HTTPS, as I need to configure my proxy setting accordingly. Thanks !! Dominique

Lightning 1.0pre and TB3 will not work

Hello, I have the follow problem, I can't add new taks or new events. But my old one are all available. When I click file->new->task or event, nothing happens. Because of this I have open an bugzilla ticket #532874, but until now no really feedback from the developers came. Have someone the same problem an an solution? Thanks

Lightning: Calendar. Tasks. What about Notes/Memos?

I would love to replace my Outlook with Thunderbird/Lightning. However, having such a tremendous amount of information in contacts, calendar, tasks as well as in the notes/memos, it is important to me to not loose those informations. While Thunderbird includes the contacts, Lightning adds almost the rest. There is one part missing. The notes / memos. Is it in Lightning and I have just not found it? If not, what are the plans. I really would love to switch to TB+L. Thanks for your feedback. Greetings from Switzerland, Rolf

Development ideas

Event title-field could support HTML-code. I have synced google calendar to Lightning and I'm usually using HTML in event title (in google). That's handy way show to people maps and so on... Anyway, now Lightning shows that HTML-code in event title and it's quite disturbing. Support for Nokia syncronization would also be great. I'm using TB3 and Lightning 1.0b2pre in Vista 32-bit and works fine!

moz-profile-calendar:// preparation error

Greetings All, I've been running Thunderbird 3.0 since beta 1 and for some weeks now have been receiving errors whenever I start Thunderbird. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the various calendar related add-ons including lightning and the google calendars provider, but I still receive the same damned error. <quote> An error was encountered preparing the calendar located at moz-profile- calendar:// for use. It will not be available. Error Code: 0x80004005 Description: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [moz

integration w TB 3

Hi Fresh TB 3 install + lightning nightly build : creating a new event with a simple drag'n drop of a mail (from the mail list pane) into the lightning icon (or the event pane) is no longer supported (that was possible and damn useful with TB previous release)

Lightning 1.0 build for the Thunderbird 3.0 for Solaris 10?

I realize Sun would need to provide some hardware to compile it, but if anyone has any pull with Sun and could get them to put out a copy of Lightning 1.0 for Solaris 10 now that Thunderbird 3 has gone gold, that would be awesome! :)

Why does Lightning write to calendar when I hit "dismiss"?

One of the latest nightlys introduced a problem, I guess. I'm using a CalDAV calendar on Zimbra. A meeting reminder pops up and I hit "dismiss". Lightning then reports an error because it apparently can't write to the calendar. It says: "An error occured when writing to the calendar xxx! Error code: MODIFICATIION_FAILED". Why would Lightning need to modify the calendar? Regards, Marcel -- Marcel St�r, http://www.frightanic.com Couchsurfing: http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/marcelstoer Skype: marcelstoer -> I kill Google Groups posts: http://improve-usenet.org

Display Problems in Week View

TB 2.0.0.23 Lightning 0.9 XP, SP3 Related add-ons: FG Printers 0.4.8 Recently, certain appointments fail to show the content of the event. I think that most are recent additions. The time is blocked, but the Time, Location, Date, Reminder, etc. do not show. Day, multiweek, and month all display properly. Disabling FG Printers has no effect. Close and reload corrects display problem, but then recurs. (I cannot figure out what the catalytic event is.) Bill B

Lightning with Zimbra

I have successfully configured lightning to work with Zimbra. I can view the calendar without a problem. The only issue I have is that I cannot create new events or confirm any meting requests. When I do so, I get the following error: "An error occurred when writing to the calendar Zimbra" When I click on the Details button, I get: "MODIFICATION_FAILED" I am using the latest stable Thunderbird for Linux, Lightning 0.9 and Zimbra 5.13 When I use Gnome Evolution, I have no issues at all. Thanks, Jim

Lightning Printing Oddity.

After first having trouble getting printing to work I found a couple of oddities in printing from Lightning under SeaMonkey.2.0 First the "Page Set Up" is grayed out when a Lightning Tab is selected. At least some of the page preferences are still active and needed. For example "Print Background Colors and Images", needs to be on to print colored calendars. Landscape could be useful. Print Preview is also grayed out. It could also be useful. Finally the Monthly Grid does not print Category Colors. -- Rob

Seamonkey 2.0 Lightning Printing not working

I have Seamonkey 2.0 and Lightning pre1 installed on windows XP. I just discovered that my setup does not print calendars. The Print Menu is displayed properly, There is no "preview' and pushing the print button does nothing. Everything else in Lightning seems to work and everything else in Seamonkey seems to print. I'm trying to see if anyone can confirm this or confirm that printing does work -- Rob

Holidays

Is there an add-on that adds U.S. Holidays to Sunbird or Lightning? Thank you, Bob

Subcategories

Using Sunbird i need to create subcategories. It's not possible so i created many menu with my categories and i would like to attribute to categories my subcategorie. Here i get a problem, because when i do that, all other calendar's categories menu changed. There is any add or something i wrong to do it? Thanks

GCal provider: Password forgotten

Yesterday, Google calendar provider forgot my stored password. The password did not change / was not wrong. Just the connection was unstable. The password should not be forgotten just because a connection cannot be made ...

Save info if you fail to post to the calendar

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Appointment alarms happening too fast

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View buttons not working

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 and lightning 0.9. I believe I installed Thunderbird separately (not through Synaptic or apt-get), but I am not positive. I just installed Provider so I can sync my calendar with Google Calendar but the option File -> New -> Calendar is grayed out. Then I noticed that, while in calendar view, if I click on the "Today," "Day," "Week," "Multiweek," or "Month" buttons, nothing happens (my view does not change). My "New Event" and "New Task" buttons are grayed out as well. If I click on say, the "Month" view under the "View" menu, it

Timezones in latest nightly and TB RC1 build 1

Hi, I use Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091112 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0 (with 20091112 Lightning builds). In Tools > Preferences > Lightning > Timezone, the drop-down list is empty. What is the problem here? Thanks, Jens

Events & Tasks Sometimes Not Displaying

I'm using Lightning v0.9 (b2008091719) w/ Portable TB 2.0.0.23. Tasks and events do not always display. They aren't lost though. When I sync with Google the events aren't deleted from the Google copy and when I move to a different computer or immediately after a reboot they do tend to show. As an example, today I deleted a single instance from a repeating event. After that all instances of the event disappeared. They still display on the Google calendar, but restarting Thunderbird does not make them appear. There are no error messages in the error console related to the Lightning