>I suspect Google did some bug fixing overnight.
That's the strange thing about working in the cloud. Something is broken
in the morning and fixed by the afternoon. Or you figure out how to do
something in the morning and its completely different by the afternoon.
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OK, went back and imported the other event. Showed up right away this time.
Also, the whole interaction seemed more intuitive. I suspect Google did
some bug fixing overnight.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:58 AM, John Emmerling wrote:
> Well this is interesting. I tried importing the ICS into Googl
Well this is interesting. I tried importing the ICS into Google Calendar,
but it seemed nothing was showing. I also put a Calendar gadget on my gmail
screen.
This morning, the event is displayed (unfortunately, of 2 events, I seem to
have imported one of them twice rather than each once, but it l
Interesting. The .ics is a "native" calendar format for a variety of
calendar apps. I used several .ics files last week when I transferred my
calendar entries to my new iMac, and when I updated the online calendar
links in iCal.
It's easy to import. For one of the calendars I just dragged the
Well, I think I might know what's going on. The "add to calendar" link in
this case is really a button included in the HTML formatted e-mail whose
purpose it is to download the ICS file.
If that makes any sense.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Tony B wrote:
> You're not alone. This happened to
You're not alone. This happened to me last week and I just brushed it
off and added the event manually. Today I did a bit of searching, but
found no solutions.
The iCalendar format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
How it's _supposed_ to work:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answ
I have not used Google calendar before today. Today I got some e-mails
showing the "add to calendar" link. I wanted to take advantage of this, so
I logged in to Google calendar, then in gmail, clicked the "add to calendar"
link. Instead of creating an entry in Google calendar, it simply download
