The fact is that the Google Quota is making it very difficult for many people to switch to Google Calendars. The current level may have been adequate when Google Calendars was first released, but the reality today is that many people have 25,000+ events in their calendars - and these "power calendar users" are often so frustrated by quota problems that after days (and sometimes weeks) of trying to move the last 10 years of their life to Google Calendars they are forced to give up and use desktop software instead.
Even with a calendar of 10,000 events, if a user uploads an iCal file to Google (in fact several iCal files are needed, but that's another story for another thread...) only to discover that their browser messed up the unicode coding during the transfer, they have to delete and start again... only to have the quota kick in and render their calendar account unusable for what can be days - or even weeks. Nobody knows. For individual users this is can be a big problem - but for developers who are providing syncing/import services to Google Calendar it is a nightmare as every day we have to explain to users why Google is making it so difficult for them to use Google Calendars - without putting them off using it! So on behalf of all developers who have to deal with this issue I would like to issue a plea (I know it's not the first) that someone at Google who stumbles across this post please set in motion a process to increase the existing Quota limits to reflect reality. The previous policy that "if you hit the quota your calendar is too big" or "you are not using the API correctly" ignores the fact that a great many people DO have huge calendars and need to keep all the data intact: why is 10 Mb of iCal data considered unreasonably large, when Gmail gives us 7558MB... and counting! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/community/forum.html
