Comments on: Errors importing iCal data (iCalendar) into Google Calendar

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:46:32 +0000

Thank you, this worked like a charm!

@Eileen, @AG, @Tracey
Lets’s say you’ve exported your calendar to your Desktop folder, and named it “Calendar.ics”. Here’s what you do:

1) Copy the “ical-to-gcal.py” file that you’ve downloaded there.

2) Open that file in any text editor and change line 6 to the following:

INFILE = ‘Calendar.ics’

(if your calendar file is named something else, then substitute that file name in there)

3) Open Terminal (in Applications), and type the following commands:

cd ~/Desktop/
./ical-to-gcal.py

4) The new file is in the same directory, and is called “out.ics”

Hope that helps!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:23:43 +0000

I’m in the same position as Julie. I don’t know hoe to proceed to run the script and use to “sanitise”my ics file. Would appreciate some pointers as it obviously works, judging from the first comments.

Thanks in advance.

By: AG

AG — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:12:46 +0000

So how do you use this script? I download the script, run it, and see that I need to enter a command line in Terminal screen. I assume it has to include the file name somehow. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:54:07 +0000

I’m with Julie. I’m getting this error message too and came here, but I don’t know what to do with a script either. I’m also getting a message in iCal that says: availability is not supported on the server for this account. I’m completely at a loss, and finding help seems impossible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Why is this so complicated.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:31:04 +0000

Thank you! I seriously thought I was going to go insane until I found this script. Sometimes I’m amazed at how shoddy some of Google’s products are–I never would have thought I’d need to go through such convolutions to get a valid .ics file into my calendar.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:04:55 +0000

@Julie: Will contact you via e-mail. -K

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:31:57 +0000

I have this problem and I ran across your solution, but when I downloaded the file I wasn’t sure what to do once it was open. I get a page full of text. I don’t know what to do from there. I’m kinda tech-savvy, but I don’t know what to do with a script. Any advice?

By: sax

sax — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:47 +0000

Thanks for the script, worked perfectly!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:59:18 +0000

Thanks for that – worked a treat.