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I wrote yesterday about exporting Lotus Notes calendar entries. Since then a colleague has suggested an alternative method.

From your chosen Calendar view, such as Day, Week or Month, select events using the mouse. Then use the same export method as before to produce an iCalendar file and import into your chosen calendar application.

This method of event selection has its own problems. It does ensure that events in the iCalendar file have the same timings as in Notes, but it has problems with repeated events. For example, I have fortnightly meetings held alternate Monday mornings. When importing the iCalendar file in to Apple’s iCal application I can see one occurrence, but no repeats. This is usually (but not always) the first occurrence. Google Calendar ignores these repeated events completely.

One thing to note is that selecting everything in my Notes Calendar view doesn’t work at all. Exporting results in a file which is 1.2 MB in size, but this produces an empty calendar on import into either iCal or Google Calendar. I guess there is something in there they don’t like.