Importing ical?

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Oliver Sturm

Hi,

I've been trying to import several ical files from icalshare.com into
Outlook 2003 SP1, but every time I get a message stating that the file is
broken. "The input file may be corrupt." is what the elaborate message
states :-) Now what?

I've had a look at one of the shorter files, but I fail to see where the
problem could be... I don't want to paste it all in here, but that specific
file is downloadable at http://ical.mac.com/s.armbrust/F1322004.ics

Any ideas?

Oliver Sturm
 
What happens if you drag it to your calendar instead of trying to import?

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Oliver Sturm asked:

| Hi,
|
| I've been trying to import several ical files from icalshare.com into
| Outlook 2003 SP1, but every time I get a message stating that the
| file is broken. "The input file may be corrupt." is what the
| elaborate message states :-) Now what?
|
| I've had a look at one of the shorter files, but I fail to see where
| the problem could be... I don't want to paste it all in here, but
| that specific file is downloadable at
| http://ical.mac.com/s.armbrust/F1322004.ics
|
| Any ideas?
|
| Oliver Sturm
 
What happens if you drag it to your calendar instead of trying to import?
Click to expand...

I get another error message. It says "Can't copy the items. Cannot import
the vCalendar file." There's further detail in that window, saying "This
error can appear if you have attempted to save a recurring Lunar
appointment in iCalendar format. To avoid this error, set the appointment
option to Gregorian instead of Lunar."

I looked into the file and found a line saying "CALSCALE:GREGORIAN",
nothing that sounds like lunar, so I guess that's a wrong error message.

There's also a link there "More information about this error message
online.", but that leads to a page saying there's no more information
available for this error (ID 10070).


Oliver Sturm
 
There apparently are some incompatibilities between the iCal items produced
by Mac and Outlook. I found some didn't work when VTIMEZONE data was defined
a certain way.

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