On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was hoping someone here might have seen this problem before.. > > I am trying to upload my Outlook calendar into Google, with about 8 > years of data. Since i have > 20k entries, I need to break it up into > about 15 files to keep each under 1 MB. > > I've chosen to break it up approximately be year or half-year. > > The problem seems to be that repeating events in Outlook, saved as ICS > files, override each other when imported into Google. > > That is, I import the 2005 file and someone's birthday comes up fine. > Then I import the 2006 file and the birthday only shows up in 2006 and > is deleted (in Google) from 2005. Interestingly, if I then import > 2004, it moves back to 2004 and deletes 2006. > > This seems ridiculous to me - how do I import repeating events when I > have to break it up into so many files?
I sent Steve a reply offline, but for the for the benefit of anybody who might come across this thread in the archives... The problem here is most likely that the UID used for events in the ICS file isn't being changed between instances, causing Calendar to treat the extra event instances as updates rather than new events. -- Trevor Johns --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
