Migrating Google Calendar to Synology Calendar

Pre-requisites: You have setup Synology Calendar

Exporting Google Calendar Entries

You cannot select which calendar to export, a zip file will be downloaded within a minute. Waiting time depends on how big your calendar is...

Extract the desired ics file from the ZIP, you may guess for which is most used by the size.

Import Downloaded ICS to Synology Calendar

Browse the extracted ics file and choose import as new calendar or existing calendar

After a few minutes, all entries will be imported.

Move Entries Between Calendars

It is a good idea to separate Birthday / Anniversay to let it have different color on your view. Moving entries between calendars are easy in Synology Calendar. Just open it:

Change the Calendar to the desintation one, and save.

Finally, you may delete the calendar. However, you better check that your mobile could sync with your Synology properly. Please refer to related post:

Synology Calendar Sync with Android and iPhone

Whatever brand of Android phone you are using, most people are “directed” to sync with either Google account, Samsung cloud account or Huawei cloud account. That means your contacts are all stored on cloud and you have virtually no control of your data. Privacy is at risk. However, if you

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Congratulations! You gain back control of your calendar service now, no matter you are iPhone or Android user.