meeting maker to ical

20 March 2008 By zenandjuice 1 In How To's

The use of Meeting Maker is finally coming to an end at work. We’re moving over to a Microsoft Exchange server.

Personally, I prefer to just have all my calendars (personal, work, and studio) in one application, and on my Mac, so I worked to export the mm entries and import them into iCal.

Which turned out to be a pain in the ass.

MeetingMaker has a “export to icalendar” option, but I found that it didn’t work all the time. It would run, and then die. Apparently, it’s a problem with recurring meetings.

So I exported my entire Meeting Maker calendar as text, and used an automator script that I found to converted Meeting Maker to iCal.

I watched as it nicely imported years of data into iCal, including the recurring items, attendees, and notes.

I found another program that removed any duplicate entries, and ran that (had some duplicates due to Palm mishaps from years ago).

So now, everything is in iCal.

Thought I’d share these tips and scripts with everyone else.

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