Comments on: Google Calendar to Palm Desktop conversion

By: borschde

borschde — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:25:51 +0000

Till 4 months ago I worked with a Palm. Now id died, so I had to go to the Android-Land. Heavy! Deja-Office made it possible to save all my data to the new equipment and to work in the new World in old environments. On my desktop-computer Palm-desktop is still at work syncing. Your programm helped me in converting actual holyday-date to the android-world. Thanx.

By: Cirrus

Cirrus — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:21:29 +0000

Super Idee. I like it!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:48:56 +0000

Thank you for this script. Worked well on python 2.6.5 in Cygwin.

By: h

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:44:15 +0000

Many thanks. It worked a treat. I had exported from Palm 4.1.4 using Dimex as an Ical file. Then accidentally deleted entire calendar on Palm. Have now used your program to convert to vcs and imported it back to Palm.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:19:29 +0000

Solves my problem of easily adding appointments to Palm Desktop from Thunderbird’s Lightning. Thanks for a good program.

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!