Comments on: Google Calendar to Palm Desktop conversion

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:34:13 +0000

tried this to convert Yahoo cal .ics to Palm desktop v6.2.2; with partial success… dates are ok, as is repeating– times are screwed up and titles are ALL just “Reminder”… d’oh (that will teach me to back-up before trying crap like this, i spose)

By: cpbotha

cpbotha — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:18:38 +0000

Thank you very much for the detailed write-up on how you did this! It’s sure to help others. :)

By: Kenneth Otto

Kenneth Otto — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:16:44 +0000

Thank you so much for this application. In these days of a slow economy and spouses being out of work – mine being one – it is so nice to be able to save money and still remain on time for my appointments.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:12:53 +0000

Thank you for doing this, it worked the first time I tried it. A life saver for sure.

By: Howard Abbey

Howard Abbey — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:20:46 +0000

Thanks much for creating & sharing the calendar conversion script. It is a big help. It did not work perfectly for my needs, but that is likely due to my source format than the converter.
I wanted to convert my exported calendar from Kopi (a Konqueror calendar off-shoot). My file is 2,600 kb, covering multiple years.
The web CGI interface replied with a network time-out first try, and an error from the CGI script the second: “Error parsing your upload: mktime argument out of range”. I suspect that my file was too big for the script to finish within the time limits given by the web server for a reply.
So I downloaded the Python vcal.py as suggested on October 16, 2011 at 10:09. This worked well. However, on my system the Python commands needed to be a little different. Pretty good though, since you were going from memory.
I did (with the multiple errors figuring it out removed):
$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> import vcal
>>> inputfile = open(‘yourfilename.ics’)
>>> cal = vcal.parse(inputfile)
>>> outputfile = open(‘myoutputfilename.vcs’,'w’)
>>> outputfile.write(cal.as_vcal())
>>> quit()

This got the data able to be imported to Palm Desktop without any reported errors. Very nice.
The result was many more events than expected. Many having a daily repetition with an end date of 12/30/2031 in Palm Desktop. These events had a repetition end date in the past in the original data, but probably in a non-standard format.
This should be much easier to clean up to a usable state than having no data in my palm at all. Much thanks!

By: Sandor Schuman

Sandor Schuman — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:37:37 +0000

Thanks. Much appreciated. Worked flawlessly.

By: cpbotha

cpbotha — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:09:41 +0000

Thank you very much for the compliment!

If you have Python on your machine and a bit of time, you could use the Python source code directly to convert your calendar files.

At the Python prompt in the same directory as the downloaded http://code.google.com/p/ical2vcal/source/browse/trunk/vcal.py do:
import vcal inputfile = open('yourfilename') cal = vcal.parse(f.read()) outputfile = open('outputfilename', 'w') outputfile.write(cal.as_vcal())

This is from the top of my head. :)

By: Dwight

Dwight — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:01:07 +0000

This is a great tool. Is there any change that a windows version might be available rather than the web tool? I have only intermitent access to web from my location (Afghanistan).

Thanks,
Dwight…

By: cpbotha

cpbotha — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:07:46 +0000

Thank you very much for your kind words!

The site has no plans of going anywhere at the moment. ;)

By: Jim Waddell

Jim Waddell — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:09:38 +0000

You are a life saver. Our institution is moving away from Oracle calendar to Google. I can sync Oracle but not Google. With your utility, my trusty old Palm Zire 71 has had its life extended.
Thanks

(Hope this little site stays up for a while!)