On 10/05/2011, at 9:36 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:
> hello Wamuggers > i'm using ical to keep track of jobs done > earlier times i used palm desktop > i followed up numerous ways to import the palm data into ical, palm can > export to vcal or it's own format (txt file) but with vcal i loose a lot of > the info through the limits in characters per field > i also tried: > in ical create some events export events as ical, analyse the file in text > editor & add an event in text editor & reimport into ical > during import ical says there is a new event (which is correct) but fails to > import the file > question is there a reasonable description available how a ical file has to > be formatted (hidden characters?) to be accepted by ical > with help of a binary editor the palm data file can be edited to convert it > into a csv or similar file, but ical does not import csv files??? > James One way through might be to use Bento. Bento will easily import .csv files, and it also talks bidirectionally directly to iCal. You could import your csv data into the iCal Events library in Bento, and the updates should automatically appear in iCal. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
