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ical is portable?! what about address book?
Authored by: zojas on Jan 27, '05 03:03:34PM

I feel like an idiot! I've been grabbing the calendar files from my ipod (which iSync put there) and trying to find a way to 'fix' the file to be able to access it in Linux. turns out all I needed to do is copy the standard ical files from ~/Library/Calendar/ over to my linux box! korganizer opens the ical files with no problems too.

then there's address book. I can translate the utf-16 version of the address book file iSync puts on my ipod to something kaddressbook can understand, using the 'recode' utility:

cat iSync.vcf |recode -v UTF-16..UTF8 > contacts_recoded.vcf

but now I'm wondering if maybe there is a simpler way for the address book too? besides, when I import the 'contacts_recoded.vcf' file into kaddressbook, it doesn't pick up the street address, even though the street addresses are in the vcf file. does anybody have any more experience making the address book portable?



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ical is portable?! what about address book?
Authored by: zojas on Jan 27, '05 04:30:16PM

I'll answer my own question. simply exporting all contacts from AddressBook as vcard 2.1 results in a perfect import into kaddressbook. the default of using vcard 3.0 resulted in some fields not being imported probably by kaddressbook.



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