Publish a PC Outlook Calendar to .Mac

Nov 22, '04 09:17:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I wanted to be able to see my Outlook calendar on PC laptop, which one of my clients makes me use, from iCal on my Powerbook -- the machine of choice. This isn't particularly easy -- you know Microsoft and industry standards. Anyway, I came across this neat little app for the PC called Outport (Outlook and Export), which I used to export the calendar. Now the trick is to export the Outlook Calendar in Evolution Calendar format -- not iCalendar (which generates a separate file for every event).

This creates a folder called Local with another folder called Calendar therein. In that folder is a file called Calendar.ics. The next trick is to copy this to the invisible folder on your .Mac account. That folder is in Sites and is called .Calendars. You can then subscribe to the calendar at this address:

   webcal://ical.mac.com/USERNAME/Calendar.ics
It isn't quite perfect -- iSync has a bit of trouble and spits out some errors intermittently -- but I have gotten the data onto my phone and iPod without too much trouble. Now if someone could just automate the process.

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