Recent changes to bugs

UID field missing

Florian Rittmeier — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:10:27 -0000

According to RFC5545 the iCalendar VEVENT components have to contain an UID field. Currently this seems to be missing.

backslash character cannot be imported

Kyriacos — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:13:17 -0000

Backslash characters exported from Outlook calendar into ics format cannot be imported into Thunderbird Lightning. In addition, the first character after the backslash along with the backslash is converted into a space. Possible solution: using \\ instead of single \ character (by editing the ics file) fixed the problem; during the subsequent attempt to import, backslashes were imported properly into Thunderbird Lightning.

Crash on Conflict Item

AdamB — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:08:29 -0000

If you have an item that is a conflict item (meaning it shows up as a yellow icon), the program will bomb out.

I don't have Visual Studio, but I looked at the code and I think you can fix this by checking the IsConflict property prior to adding an item. If you find that it is IsConflict, I would notify the user and Open the item so they can choose which version is the correct one.

wrong date values in ical file

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:39:45 -0000

the exported ical file (from outlook 2003 sp2) contained date values in the form "DATE=VALUE:YYYYMMDD" where it should have "VALUE=DATE:YYYYMMDD". This made kde's korganizer crash, when accessing the file.

my workaround:

sed -i 's/DATE=VALUE:/VALUE=DATE:/g' yourexported.ics

thanks for the tool, anyways...

joachimbanzhaf@compuserve.de

Invoking fMiCal.exe fails with unhandled exception

Charles Pedersen — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:40:24 -0000

System: Windows XP SP2 running on Lenovo T60p. 2 GB RAM, 1.8MHz duo core

Outlook: Office 2003, version 11.0, build 8118. Installed in standard location.

All files from download extracted to C:\utilities\outlook2ical

With Outlook up and running, invoked FreeMiCal.exe by double clicking icon. App immediately failed with Windows popup indicating that OS wanted to send error report to MS.

Tried to invoke fMiCal.exe --help in command windows.

App failed again and when the MS popup is dismissed, the following was output:

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or ass
embly 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Publ
icKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find
the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'
at FreeMiCal.fMiCal.Main(String[] args)

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\M
icrosoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure lo
gging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fus
ion!EnableLog].

you can contact me at charles DOT pedersen AT sri DOT com.

weekday error?

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:57:07 -0000

A recurring calendar event on Sunday and Wednesday only re-imports the first instance of Sunday. Wednesday is okay.