Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2008

Uh, ok, but why are you looking at the internal structure anyway. I get
ics events all the time and I just go and change the event in iCal to
suit my needs just like an event that I put there manually. Since you
sync from your iMac, you might have to make the change there, then sync
again.

Hmmm.   I wonder what would happen if I looked at some events in one of
these computer-named folders, determined which folder was which, deleted
the event from the wrong folder from within iCal, and then dragged in my
.ics event into the correct folder.

Probably nothing.

I expect to be buying my backup drive this weekend maybe - it might be
good to wait until I have a backup before experimenting.

If you're using a Windows app that lets you export the calendar as a
.ics file, you can import it into iCal, which I think is what you meant
to write instead of Mail.

I save off Outlook calendar events as .ics files.    I can actually copy
them into my iPod's calendar file and see them on my iPod, but when they
synchronize with iCal, they get overwritten with whatever is on iCal
(too bad they won't synchronize).    Or I can click on them, or e-mail
them as attachments to myself and then open them at home.

But my iCal has two libraries which I named home and work.  Most of the
.ics files give me options of editing them or when I click on them,
letting me put them where I want.    The exception was a meeting request
that I invited my son-in-law to participate in (member guest golf),
which I want to be in the home library, but which automatically goes to
the work library and won't let me edit.

All of the events that gave me a choice of were to put them are editable
from within iCal.   This (appointment?  I forgot what it's called),
event is the type I invited someone else to join, and for some reason I
can neither pick which calendar it goes to, nor edit it from within iCal.