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Import Calendar or Change Path to Calendar

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ISub
ISub
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I just want to ask if there is any solution via add-on or other, to either import an ics file directly, and not just the contents into an existing calendar, or if it is possible to alter the location entry in the properties of a calendar.

Say, you have 10 calendars and the drive letter has changed since you created them in Lightning. What do you do? I know that this issue has been discussed for years with users trying to make their point, but I haven't found a solution yet.

Best, Ingo

I just want to ask if there is any solution via add-on or other, to either import an ics file directly, and not just the contents into an existing calendar, or if it is possible to alter the location entry in the properties of a calendar. Say, you have 10 calendars and the drive letter has changed since you created them in Lightning. What do you do? I know that this issue has been discussed for years with users trying to make their point, but I haven't found a solution yet. Best, Ingo

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ISub
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Okay, 3 minutes after my post i found one solution on my own.

A calendar can be imported via File/Open/Calendar File

The actual issue at hand is that it took me so long to find this. One full hour and a half of reading the web was of no avail. In particular, the Mozilla/Calendar/ site was not helpful, even misleading. First, there is no help article "import calendar file", second, where there is talk about importing a calendar, it is actually about importing data from a calendar into another already existing calendar.

So, half of my question is answered now, and for that answer I'd like to ask to better the help site for Calendar for everyone coming there to find out how to import a calendar or update the path of a calendar and find this a solution.

Zenos
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You have probably found a "corner case" which is used by comparatively few users and so has not warranted any advice being written up on it. The vast majority of users use the built-in calendar storage, based on sqlite, or they link to a networked calendar via an appropriate protocol. Such users have no need for ics files.

I do run a calendar based on an ics file myself. I keep it in a Dropbox folder so it follows me around from one computer to another. But since it is only useful to me in Lightning/Thunderbird, and it isn't truly synchronised, it's of limited value. No way to link it to my phone or tablet.