calendar to .ics export does not work!

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    garsdudehors

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    I have (very imprudently) been using the calendar program provided by acer to type in a few diary entries while traveling, and now I would like to export this data so as to be able to re-import it on other calendar software I use.
    But the export feature of this program does not work! It actually exports a .ics file which is almost empty, containing only the heading of the first event in the calendar............
    Did anyone have the same problem? :cry:

    PS
    This program imports .ics file without problem
     
    garsdudehors, Oct 14, 2008
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    I wish to say also that acer support is nonexistent : I sent them repeated requests concerning this problem and did not get any answer
     
    garsdudehors, Nov 9, 2008
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    Well, I haven't used the Calendar app, but I just tried putting in an appointement and running the export. My export file contain this:

    Code:
    [user@one calexp.ics]$ cat My_Calendar.ics 
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Acer Mobile Communicator Platform//Acer Calendar v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Test Appointment
LOCATION:Acertown
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:A bit of descriptive text.\n
X-ACER-ICAL-DESC:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//
 EN">\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html
 \; CHARSET=UTF-8">\n  <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.1">\n</
 HEAD>\n<BODY>\n<FONT COLOR="#000000">A bit of descriptive text.</FONT>\n</
 BODY>\n</HTML>\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081117T120000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081117T130000
X-ACER-ICAL-BUSYSTATUS:FREE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:FREE
CREATED:20081109T181948Z
LAST-MOD:20081109T181948Z
SEQUENCE:0
DTSTAMP:20081109T182010Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
[user@one calexp.ics]$
    ..which seems to contain all I put in, so I don't know why your export should be failing. Does it contain none of the above?
     
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    I get a file that contains only the heading (until PRIORITY:5)
     
    garsdudehors, Nov 22, 2008
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    Re: data storage used by Acer calendar application?

    does anyone have an idea where the file used by that lousy applciation to store its data is hidden?
    and if it might be possible to open it with another application?
     
    garsdudehors, Nov 22, 2008
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    Also happened to me. Export does not work.
     
    vautrin44, Nov 28, 2008
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    The Calendar seems to save its data in an sqlite3 database which you will find at /home/user/.PIMDS/Calendar/PimDS_Calendar.db - it probably wouldn't be too hard to hack up a Perl script to read the database and write an ./ics file.
     
    daldred, Nov 29, 2008
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    Thank you for this information, this is the file where the application stores its data, but do you know of an application that could convert this format to a text-based exchange format (like .csv, that you can also open with google calendar)?
     
    garsdudehors, Nov 30, 2008
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    I don't know of one; it looks possible that Lightning (the calendar add-on for Thunderbird) suppoorts both sqlite and ics data formats, but whether the Acer sqlite format is compatible with Lightning's I don't know. Perhaps you could give it a try and report back.
     
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    I have tried opening the .db file of this application with Thunderbird Lightning, but it does not seem to work : I don"t even obtain garbled data, just an error message
    Thunderbird does also use Sqlite to store its data, its own files have an extension of .sdb
    Renaming the acer calendar file to .sdb does not do the trick either...

    I am afraid I may end up having to copy my acer calendar data one event at a time (I had entered more than a hundred), which will be extreeeeeemly tedious :-(
     
    garsdudehors, Dec 11, 2008
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    Dear garsdudehors,
    I try to use Acer's Calendar export function, and it works fine in my test.
    Can you describe more detail about your operation step by step ?
    What's your language settings?
    How many events are exported in your testing ?
    Does the question always happened or not ?
     
    andychen, Dec 23, 2008
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