[chandler-users] Importing from Now Up To Date

[Mike]

Mark,

wow - thanks for passing on the information.

While you may be the first to need these steps I'm sure others will  
find them helpful - especially the part about using Palm Desktop and an  
intermediate tool for conversion - that was awesome.

again, thanks

On Aug 10, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Mark Vermette wrote:

> 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
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