Re: [Evolution] Q: What is the difference between *.vcf files and user-cal.vcf?

[Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com>]

I tried replacing a calendar.ics with one from StarOffice and Evolution
did not pick it up.

sigh... never mind.

Gary

On Fri, 2001-08-31 at 08:00, Gary Frederick wrote:
> I bet the vcf files that Evolution imports are VCARD, not VCALENDAR.
> 
> The gnome calendar program exports vCalendar. Evolution uses iCalendar.
> they are different formats, vCalendar was first, iCalendar is close but
> not the same.
> 
> If you feel like trying something, try this:
> 
> 0: assuming GNOME calendar, StarOffice 5.2 and Evolution are all
> installed on your system.
> 
> 1: export your GNOME calendar data to myCalendar.vcf.
> 2: import into StarOffice as vCalendar events
> 3: export from StarOffice as iCalendar events (.ics)
> 4: copy the Evolution calendar file to a safe place
>      mine's at ~/evolution/local/Calendar/calendar.ics
> 5: make your calendar data the Evolution calendar file
> 
> I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS!!! BE CAREFUL
>   and let us know if it works!!!
> 
> Gary
> 
> StarOffice 5.2 is at http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 13:33, Levent Guendogdu wrote:
> > Hi Evo Team,
> > 
> > I noticed that Evo has a function to import vcf-files. Import 
> > user-cal.vcf from gnome-calender fails, because there seem to be some 
> > unsupported tags. What is the difference between vcf-files in general 
> > and the gnome-calender vcf file? Is there actually some converter to 
> > make it possible to import my calender file?
> > 
> > Thanks everyone!
> > 
> > Bye,
> >   Levo.
> > 
> > 
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