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Cannot dismiss or snooze or dismiss-all on any reminders.

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Installed the latest version of Thunderbird/Lighting, and get the integration with my Google calendar just fine. However, any previous entry or any current entry that had/has a reminder will not let me dismiss the reminder, snooze it, or dismiss-all. Help. These keep popping up and it gets annoying.

Installed the latest version of Thunderbird/Lighting, and get the integration with my Google calendar just fine. However, any previous entry or any current entry that had/has a reminder will not let me dismiss the reminder, snooze it, or dismiss-all. Help. These keep popping up and it gets annoying.

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Guessing doesn't help. With the latest version of the provider extension you only need to provide your user ID and password. You don't have to look up a URL anymore.

Make sure you do have the latest version. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/

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Make sure your Google Calendar is not read-only. Right-click the calendar - Properties to check.

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The calendar was checked "read-only" so I unchecked it. I could dismiss one item, but it automatically went back to "read-only" and no others could be dismissed again. Thoughts?

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Try to delete the Google Calendar in Lightning and restart Thunderbird. Then re-create the calendar. Since it's a network calendar no data will be lost.

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I appreciate your help, but this didn't work either. I tried this two different times, and both failed. It keep resetting my Google calendar to "read-only." Any other thoughts?

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I tried this two different times, and both failed.

This isn't really a useful statement.

What exactly did you do?

What happened?

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OK, I unchecked "read-only" from the calendar properties, then tried to dismiss. It seemed to work until I got the return "An error has occurred" The Error code was "modification_failed". The property is then reset to "read-only".

I continue to be unable to dismiss or snooze any calendar reminders. I have also deleted the calendar and recreate it, but it always is created as "read-only" and I continue having the problem as described above.

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How do you access your Google Calendar, via the Provider extension or CalDAV?

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I guess it is the Provider extension. It is a private calendar via ICAL url.

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Guessing doesn't help. With the latest version of the provider extension you only need to provide your user ID and password. You don't have to look up a URL anymore.

Make sure you do have the latest version. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/

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FANTASTIC! This solved my problem. This needs to be highlighted in Thunderbird instructions. I followed what I found on the forum, but it obviously didn't apply to the latest version. THANK YOU!!