[chandler-users] Importing Outlook Calendar

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Jerry,

>     I've been a long time user of MS Outlook and for almost as long have
> been looking for an open source replacement.  When I do switch I want to
> do so fell-swoop -- Mail, Contacts, Tasks and Calendar.  I've subscribed
> to the Chandler Users' mail for about a year, and it seemed that with
> Chandler release 0.7 it might finally be ready for me (or I might be
> ready for Chandler). 
>  
>     In any case, Thursday I downloaded 0.7.0.1 and gave it a go.  It
> looks fantastic and it seems to be an improvement over Outlook.  All
> went well and was even able to connect to the hub immediately. 

Well, that's encouraging!  Now if we can just get your Outlook export
working smoothly...

>     I did have one problem that is important enough to me to be a
> non-starter.  I haven't been able to load any calendar event.  The *.ics
> file is parsed and then fails with "problem with file, import
> cancelled".  I tried both outport.exe and outlook2ical to create
> icalendar files from my current Outlook calendar, both as individual
> appointments and as a complete file.  Same results.

I haven't tried either of these for extracting iCalendar from Outlook,
I'll give them a try.

>     I've searched both Chandler faqs/archives as well as using Google to
> find a solution, but can find nothing that helps.  Can anyone help me
> with this or is this functionality for later release??

Can you try looking through your log (Tools > Logging > Log Window) for
a line that looks like

Traceback (most recent call last

and paste that (and the rest of the stack trace) into an email or a bug?
 Or, like Philippe mentioned, you could attach your .ics to a bug (or a
private email to me) if it isn't too private.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey