You're not alone. This happened to me last week and I just brushed it off and added the event manually. Today I did a bit of searching, but found no solutions.
The iCalendar format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar How it's _supposed_ to work: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=47802&ctx=related On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, John Emmerling <[email protected]> wrote: > I have not used Google calendar before today. Today I got some e-mails > showing the "add to calendar" link. I wanted to take advantage of this, so > I logged in to Google calendar, then in gmail, clicked the "add to calendar" > link. Instead of creating an entry in Google calendar, it simply downloaded > an ICS file (for import into Outlook, which I don't use, I think?). > From searching, I get the impression that for some people, the add to > calendar link works this way, but I can't find out how to specify this > behavior. I am using Chrome which I expect to be the most Google-friendly > browser. Anybody know? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
