Comments on: Find Missing Lightning Tasks In Thunderbird

By: blueclock

blueclock — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:40:45 +0000

Hi Paola, thanks for sharing the back up tip, I’ll check that out.

By: paola

paola — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:58:48 +0000

p.s.
me again, found the way to do it, just installed the updated “automatic backup” facility, in case you are interested it is here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3740
thanks anyway!

By: paola

paola — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:16:12 +0000

Hi, I hope you can help me: I have just updated to Lightning 0.8, but cannot find a way to change the directory where to put my automatic local backup of the calendar: any ideas?
Many thanks!

By: blueclock

blueclock — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:22:54 +0000

@Charlie

Absolutely, this is what I do. The trick is to make sure that when adding a task you assign it to your local calender.

I had a look at Lightning 0.8 Alpha and it has improved. I took some screenshots before uninstalling it and will write about here soon.

The 0.8 Alpha doesn’t work with the Google provider though so I couldn’t tell if anything had improved on that front.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:05:02 +0000

For everyone who has been having the problem of new tasks immediately disappearing, make sure you have a non-remote calendar selected when you make the task. As it says above, you can’t sync tasks with Google Calendar (that’s what my remote calendars are linked to), so if you have a remote calendar selected as the active calendar, Thunderbird just won’t do anything and delete the task. Make a local calendar for tasks and hope that the feature is added later on.

By: blueclock

blueclock — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:07:38 +0000

@brennan, in order for tasks to appear in the calendar they have to have a specific start or due date.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:37:40 +0000

i have already tried doing this, i made a calendar called ” tasks” and it’s local, it still does not appear on it under ‘ calendar ‘ .

By: Christoph Dollis

Christoph Dollis — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:32:03 +0000

Thanks a whole lot for saving me time trying to figure out where my tasks went.

I’m REALLY disappointed I can’t save these tasks for easy access online, which is kinda the whole point of having your desktop calendar sync with the net. I hope this is added in the near future.

Do you know any way I can integrate Lightning and online access to both calendar and tasks even if I have to install a PHP app on my web server?

Thanks — Christoph.