[chandler-users] Importing from Now Up To Date

[Mark Vermette]

Hi everyone...

I've found a somewhat convoluted but successful way of importing appointments from Now Up To Date v 5.1.1 running on my G4 PowerBook under OS X 10.2.8. I had no problems exporting 4 years of appointments to Chandler 0.7alpha5 running on WinXP SP2. It takes both Palm Desktop and iCal on the Mac to make this trick work, however.

The basics are:

1.) Export from Now Up To Date using it's default Text export format. Use the defaults in the Export dialog.

2.) Using Palm Desktop (I used v4.1) import the data file. Palm Desktop will automatically detect the format as "Now Up To Date 2.0 - 3.5", and display sample columns and the data that goes into them, similar to an import into Excel. Everything matched in my case, without any action on my part.

3.) Use Palm Desktop to re-export the file. In the export dialog, select "Date Book" as the module, "All Datebook Items" for Items, and "vCal" for the format.

4.) Now, open iCal (in my case, v1.5.5) and import the vCal file. You may want to create a new iCal calendar to keep this data separate.

5.) Export the iCal file and import it into Chadler via directions found here: http://chandlerproject.org/pub/Product/GetStartedGuide/3-Importing-ExportingData.html

I don't know if anyone needs this info, but I thought I'd let people know it's possible to do, and it Just Works.

--Mark