Palm overwrite of iCal

My apologies if this has already been discussed here, but I couldn't find anything. At any rate, I would like to overwrite all of my laptop's iCal data with the calendar information from my Palm TX. Is there any way to do that? It doesn't appear to be possible with either iSync or the Missing Sync. Thanks.

Hi Findlay
Looks like we posted on similar issues (complete with exact title) at the same time
I found vCal Exploder http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16230
did the trick.
It takes Palm Categories and turns each one into a seperate calendar in iCal.
Regards
Eric
G5 at last Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?
I have a Palm Tungsten E handheld which just died.
Luckily, all my data is backed-up on my Palm Desktop V4.2.1.
I just bought an iPod-Touch, so I would like to easily transfer
all my data (Addressbook, Calendar, etc) from the Palm Desktop
on my Mac (OSX 10.5) to the equivalent Mac applications
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them on my iPod-Touch.
How do I easily transfer data from Palm Desktop to iCal and Address Book?
Thanks in advance for your help.
David

Hi David. The contact information is straightforward. Bring up your Address List in Palm Desktop, then select Export under file. You pick vCard as the format, and save the resulting file where ever. In Address Book, you then select Import --> vCards under file. You may need to edit things like birthdays by hand afterwards.
I am still working on the Calendar information.
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Is there a way to sync facebook events or a palm profile to iCal?

i want to sync my facebook events into iCal so that i can have all of my events there in one convenient location. i also have the palm pre until iphone comes to my network. is there a way that i can sync my palm profile to ical so that i can get my calendar off of there also? any tips?
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Message was edited by: featherhead13

Hello there,
I found your question by looking for something similar regarding iCal and Facebook. I have figured out part of the answer:
You can export your Facebook events into many other scheduling programs, such as Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Calendar. To do this, click the "Export" button that appears below the photo on any particular event‘s page, or go to the Events page and click the "Export Events" link to export all of your upcoming events. Save the events to your computer as an ".ical" file, and import the events using your preferred scheduling program. When exporting individual events, clicking the "Export" button may automatically import the event to your computer’s default scheduling program.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=14490
HOWEVER, this did not work with Safari (which brought me here). I was able to do it with Firefox though.
Let's see if it works for you.
Sincerely,
Luana

Palm OS to iCal importing

Nothing I have tried to trouble shoot this issue has resulted in succes. When I import my calendar data from Palm Desktop (latest version) as an export and then import into iCal I get all of the appointments I've had for the last three years displayed in one single calendar day. Heart attack city. Any help please?

What are you talking about?
Support is available simply by filing a support request by electronic mail. The application itself is thoroughly documented with a User Guide, Help file and installation and setup wizards. Your short note indicates that you either did not read this material, or did not understand it.
There is nothing to 'remove' to return to synchronizing with the Palm Desktop or with iSync, though you must remove—as is documented in the User Guide—the Missing Sync using a supplied Uninstaller utility. As a consequence of the installation of the Missing Sync for Palm OS, both the HotSync Manager and Transport Monitor are replaced with Mark/Space components. Neither the Palm Desktop nor iSync will work without the original Palm components.
And, you don't synchronize your "Palm OS with iCal." You synchronize the contact, calendaring and task data on your Palm device either with the Palm Desktop using Palm-supplied conduits, or with the Address Book and iCal using iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit.

Palm datebook to ical

I am no longer using my Treo 180, but I am very dependent on my palm desktop calendar. for scheduling. I went through a lot of "custom installing" of this older software to get it to work in Tiger, and it has worked with virtually no problem for a year. I would now like to move over to ical in order to be current and to be able to move up to Leopard more effortlessly in the future.
How to I accomplish this? I am running 10.4.9 on my imac G5. The palm desktop version is 4.0. I have already exported the datebook in a vCal format. What's next?
Any advise will be appreciated.
sj

OK, so I can see that question has struck out for replies, so let me try a new one.
I tried to import the vcal file and it was a total disaster. All the events repeated themselves, all color coding disappeared, dates were wrong and I am looking for another solution. Is there another way to get this info from palm desktop into ical - perhaps by syncing instead of export/import? Can I do it from the handheld device instead?
sj

ISync Palm overwrite iCal and sync AddressBook

Hi,
I used to use iSync with my old palm, but disabled the conduit.
Now I have a new Palm Tungsten T5 and want to start using iSync again.
Do I just re-download the conduit?
Also, when I do the first Sync, I'd like to overwrite iCal with the DateBook info on the Palm. However I've been adding addresses to both the Palm and the Mac, so I don't want to overwrite the Mac addressbook, but synchronise the two. Is it possible to sync addresses whilst overwriting datebook? Or could/should I wipe iCal clean somehow first? How would I do that?
Cheers.
iCal v1.5.5
AddressBook v3.1.2
Palm Desktop v4.2.1
Mac OS X 10.3.9

There is really no simple way to do this.
You should actually start by installing the Palm Desktop software from the CD-ROM which came with your Tungsten, then 'upgrading' using the downloadable installer located here:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/macintosh/macdesk421revd.html
Once you have done this, you should move your Palm conduits so that only these current versions of the standard conduits are present in the active Conduits folder:
• Calendar Conduit
• Contacts Conduit
• Memos Conduit
• Tasks Conduit
The Disabled Conduits folder should initially contain these conduits, if they are present in your configuration:
• Address Conduit
• Apple [that's the iSync Palm Conduit's Finder name]
• Backup Conduit
• Datebook Conduit
• Install Conduit
• Memo Conduit
• ToDo Conduit
…along with any other inactive conduits.
Having done that, you need to then use the HotSync Manager to configure the individual conduits so that the Calendar and Tasks conduits are set to Macintosh overwrites handheld, and the Contacts conduit is set to Synchronize. Then, synchronize your handheld with the Palm Desktop. This step accomplishes several things: it meets the Apple requirement to synchronize at least once with the Palm desktop before installing and using iSync, it creates a a contemporary backup of your data, and it allows you to achieve the data transfers according to the patterns which you want - something that iSync does not allow.
Now you need to download and install the iSync Palm Conduit. Having done that, launch the HotSync Manager or use the HotSync options of the Palm Desktop to add your device to iSync. Do this by selecting the iSync Palm Conduit, and checking the option to Enable iSync for this Palm device. Before you synchronize with iSync, do this…
• export your calendar and task data from the Palm Desktop in vCal format
• export your contact data from the Palm Desktop in vCard format
• import the vCal data into iCal, replacing the current record set
• import the vCard data into the Address Book, replacing the current record set
Now, launch iSync, and configure the calendar and contact options you want in the drop-down configuration pane for your device. Initiate a synchronization event, and choose to merge - rather than to replace - the data on your devices.

Why can't I sync my Palm Desktop with iCal?

When I enable iSync for my Palm (Tungsten E2, Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Rev.D) it disables the conduits I need to sync my Palm Desktop calendar information (Date Book, Tasks, To Do, etc.) with anything else. So when I make a change on Palm Desktop it doesn't even show up on the Palm handheld, much less on iCal. Can I move these "iSync Disabled Conduits" (Date Book, Tasks, To Do, etc.) back into the "Conduits" folder without creating a conflict? I've tried various solutions on the Mac Support site without much luck so far. Does this problem have something to do with OS 10.4's unique issues with syncing? Or is iCal supposed to REPLACE Palm Desktop, not be synced with it?
Post relates to: Tungsten E2

AlanG wrote:
Hello kongoscar,
If you are making the jump from Windows to Mac, it might be easier for you to export your data from the Windows side using a comma separated values (.csv) file and importing that data into the PIM application on the Mac. The Palm Desktop software for the Mac, is, in my opinion, terrible (and I'm a Mac user).
Alan G
Thanks so much for your reply, Alan G. I am not planning on using the Palm Desktop for the Mac once I get all the data from my Palm into the Macs. I am going to use the Mac software, like iCal and contacts, and probably Bento3 in place of the Palm Memos database, and I HOPE (not sure whether I will like it or not) to use my iPhone in place of the Palm, but I am not yet ready to ditch the Palm until I satisfy myself that the iPhone can do all the calendar and personal database functions as well as what I am used to with the Palm. So this data transfer quandary is not really about transferring the data to the Mac so I can continue to use my Palm and Palm Desktop software as I always have - it is about getting it to the Mac in a way that I can easily then export/import the data into iCal, Address Book/Contacts, and Notes or Bento3. My assumption is that would be easier doing imports from Palm Desktop on the Mac rather than imports from the PC, but maybe that is wrong. For instance, if I do an export from the PC of the Palm's calendar function and import that into iCal on the iMac, will all the alarms and repeating copies of entries also make it over? Or would the alarms and repeaters more likely make it into an import into iCal if it came from data that was already on the Mac in Palm Desktop for the Mac? It odes seem that the Palm software for the Mac is not as good as it is for the PC, that Mac OSX does not support the Palm as well as earlier versions of Mac OS, and that there are all these problems with syncing on the Mac, from what I've read on the forums.
Given my admittedly rambling description above, do you have any other advice for me?
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Palm desktop to ical to iphone

call me clueless, but i cannot figure out how to export my calendar (or my contacts) to an apple application that can then up synched with the iPhone. when i choose export in palm, neither iCal nor address book show up as an option.

For the contacts what I did was to export to my desktop from the Palm (T|X, and In Palm desktop for Mac 4.2.2) using the Address option for Module and the vCard option in Format.
For my date book (in monthly) I exported to my desktop in vCal.
Then I imported the contacts to my address book on my iMac as group labeled "contacts." These I them copied to my iPhone during the sync process.
For the date book I imported them directly to my iCal on my desktop and them synched them with my iPhone.
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Palm Desktop to iCal

Recently got my iPhone4, so now can integrate all my apple apps, etc. To date have been using Palm Desktop 4.2.1 for calendar (covers many years). I'm happy to leave old data on this program as a sort of archive. But need to transfer current and future calendar data to iCal and thence to iPhone. Is there an app, or work around, that would accomplish this?
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Sorry I haven't used Palm Desktop for quite some time. If you do a Wikipedia search for ".ICS" you can read more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ics
To export Calendar and Addressbook data out of the Palm Desktop software:
Open Palm Desktop
Open the Palm calendar
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File > Export > Format > vCard
Export the files to your desktop for ease of access.
Once there you can import them into iCal and Addressbook respectively by going to File > Import.
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Transferring info from palm calendar to ical 4.04

i have followed the directions on how to export/import my calendar from my palm tungsten e2 to ical 4.04. however, it does not work properly. events are spread over 2 days, there is an unexplained addition of a "new appt" every day at 7 pm (nothing on my palm like that). i've checked both sets of prefs to make sure dates and time zones are correct. help!!

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Thanks, Niel. One follow-up, if you don't mind....does your response mean that once the calendar file on the Mac was created, adding items to the iPhone were considered a separate calendar file? If so, is it possible to have just one calendar file that is shared between the Mac and the iPhone?
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Trying to sync calendars between 2 palm devices and ical

Hi,
My fiancee and I each have a Palm handheld. Mines a TE and I think hers is a T2. Here is my dream scenerio:
We set up a couple of calendars in iCal, one for her stuff and one for my stuff. When we sync, we can each see both calendars on our respective palm devices.
Does that make sense? Is it possible? We just want to be able to coordinate our schedules, ya know?
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Let me say this before you go any further: sharing is difficult. In personal, not technological, terms.
What you want to do is relatively easy, and there are several approaches. The easiest, I believe, is to establish separate user accounts (on a single machine, or—ideally—on separate machines) and share your calendars usingBusySync, with—or without—Google calendars and an intermediate storage 'device.'
You should also consider using the Missing Sync for Palm OS to synchronize your Palm devices to your Mac OS X platforms, as it is a far more powerful and reliable approach than that offered by iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit.

Palm sync with iCal and Address

I have recently bought a new computer and since I have lost the installation CD of my Palm, I have down loaded the drivers from their web page. It seems to sync well, but it's not, because neither my contacts or my calendar are being synchronized! Does anyone have any idea of what's wrong? I have checked the preferences and got to no conclusion. What's the use of a Palm without synchronizing with our data?!
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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Reinstalling the Palm Desktop was a really bad idea. Although you believe it changed nothing, it actually changed everything. And, it could not possibly have corrected the original issue, which almost certainly does not involve the HotSync Manager or Transport Monitor, and could not have involved the remained of the Palm package at all.
Palm device synchronization using iSync and the iSync Palm Conduit will not work until you have address the issues which reinstalling it created, and the original issue which prevented the execution of a synchronization event.
To correct this, you should first remove your Palm device from iSync.
Then, apply this software package to update Mac OS X 10.4.9 for your PowerPC-based Macintosh:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1049comboupdateppc.html
You must use this package to perform the update, as neither the smaller delta updater of the Software Update mechanism will perform the necessary changes to your configuration.
Once you've done that, you should launch iSync 2.4 and use the Enable Palm OS Syncing… option under the Devices menu to once again add your Treo to iSync. It's probably better to initiate this process via USB, though if you elect to use Bluetooth instead, be sure that you pair your smartphone to your computer prior to attempting to add it to iSync.
If you cannot add it as a device, stop and post the error messages you see rather than trying to address them. This process should be straightforward and simple but it often is not, and proceeding without understanding the impact of what you are doing may force you to start this procedure all over again.

WOES: iSync, Palm Pilot, iCal, Missing Sync, Palm Desktop, Ericsson Phone

Here's my situation, I've been a long time Palm user, and fairly recently (within a year) a new Mac user. I've always used the Palm Desktop on my PC in the past. I've had a Palm Vx for years, and fairly recently (within a year) I bought a Palm Zire 72 and a Sony Ericsson S170a cell phone. I also have an iPod Photo.
I really would like to sync up my address book, calendars, memos, maybe even photos, with all my devices. I tried using iSync, but nothing seam to work right, so I tried a million things, now everything is messed up.
For right now, I'm just trying to get my Palm Pilot, the Mac, and the Phone to have all the same calendar events (w the correect times, alarms, colors, and groups).
I'm really frustrated with trying to get the mac's iCal, the palm pilot, the phone to all have the same calendar info. I really like iCal, and the mac address book, and how well it works with the mail app. As well as subscribing to shared iCals. Especially the holiday ones! I use to have to enter all that info by hand, and have them "other" repeater. The Palm Desktop software's calendar and address book is pretty clunky compared to the Mac apps, or even the Palm Desktop for the PC. But everything is messed up now. I even tried the "missing sync" software and it messed it up even worse.
Several of my cal events are now GONE from iCal, my Palm Pilot, and my Phone! Many of them have duplicates, some have wrong times. Some have right groups, some don't. The ones that do have right groups, don't have any colors applied to them. If I create certain calendars on the mac and sync with the palm, the groups do not come over. If I create them on the Palm, the groups don't come over on the mac. Getting the colors/groups to match, and all 3 items to sync all at once is a nightmare as well. There were a million conflicts, and chose the correct ones, but some of them would NOT let me pick the one I wanted, it would just keep on saying "conflict".
What would AT LEAST get me back to the original info on the Palm and the Mac would be to restore from my Palm Desktop software, but I can't get to that because it looks like the missing sync software has messed the conduit/hot sync manager up. I can no longer get to my Palm Desktop condiut settings. I'd re-install the palm software to get it back, but I will probably loose all the data stored in Palm Desktop. This is the ONLY place that has the correct info right now. I'm varry warry about loosing that information. I use to have the PC copy, and the Palm Copy, and it was all right. The Palm Desktop has an import/export feature, but it doesn't seam to carry all the info (like notes attatched to cal events).
Also, has anyone tried to RESTORE a Palm Pilot not using the Palm Desktop software? When I had to reset my Palm, I tried using iSync or even missing sync to get all my apps, settings, calendars, address books, everything, but it never put the info back on the Palm. This info was always restored with Palm Desktop.
And let's just say I DO get back all my calendar items back into the Palm, and the Palm Desktop software up and running correctly. What is the proper way to do what I was trying to do in the begining? Which was "just have my Palm Pilot, the Mac, and the Phone to have all the same calendar events (w the right times, alarms, colors, and groups)." I don't seam to have too many problems with contacts. Except work/home fields seam to swap all the time.
What I'm running:
G4 PowerMac w/ Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.3)
Palm Pilot Zire 72s (Palm Software v5.2.8)
Missing Sync (v5.0.3)
Palm Desktop Mac (v4.2.1)
Sony Ericsson S170a Cell Phone
iPod Photo 60GB
G4 PowerMac Mac OS X (10.4.3) Palm Pilot Zire 72s (Palm Software v5.2.8), Missing Sync (v5.0.3), Palm Desktop Mac (v4.2.1), Sony

Where to start? Maybe with some background about the synchronization process.
What Apple hasn't explained outside of the developer community is that you are not actually synchronizing applications [like iCal or the Address Book] or servers [like .Mac] or devices [like your mobile handset or a Palm organizer] when you initiate a synchronization. What you are really doing is triggering an interaction with one or more of these and the SyncServices engine, which maintains what is termed the 'truth database'—or simply, the 'truth'—to which is pushed, or from which is pulled, the current state of data maintained in fields and records for one or more specific data types. Because of the way this process works, it is not necessary to have all synchronized devices available or attached when a synchronization event occurs.
You can synchronize your SONY Ericsson S710a, a process which exchanges the most current data maintained in the truth with it, and hours later, plug in your iPod, an action which will trigger iTunes to pull the latest data from the truth and write it to the iPod, updating your contact and calendaring records. The same is true for other applications, servers and devices.
While it all seems clumsy and confusing, it is actually a huge step forward in making synchronization nearly automatic, almost transparent, and virtually mistake proof. It's clear that there is some distance to go before those objectives are achieved, but SyncServices is actually a huge improvement over the prior synchronization technology in iSync 1.5 and earlier.
That said, there are bugs in SyncServices, and in the applications written by several developers to take advantage of it, along with issues in at least iCal, and probably the Address Book, that complicate what you are trying to achieve. It's possible to do, and once working, should work nearly flawlessly. But, it takes some planning to get there.
First, a word about backing up your data. It's a good idea to periodically back up contact and calendaring records using the facilities built into iCal and the Address Book which appear in the File menu of each application. These options make easily restorable local snapshots of your data. Should something go terribly wrong with a synchronization event, you can immediately restore your iCal or Address Book data from these files. In addition, it's a good idea to have a more comprehensive backup plan in place, using Backup and .Mac, Backup and rewritable media, and so on.
To synchronize photos, music and other media files, you'll need to use the Missing Sync for Palm OS. iSync just does not support anything beyond contact, calendaring and task data. To begin the process, you should simplify your device pool, initially concentrating only on getting a complete, accurate set of contact, event and task records pushed to the truth from the Address Book and iCal, and onto your Palm.
You will have to take an inventory of where the best records reside, and insure that you get them into iCal and the Address Book before attempting to synchronize your Palm, because to do it properly, initially, you will have to overwrite the data on your Palm, replacing it with records from iCal and the Address Book. If you're going to edit them by making additions, changes and deletions, perform all of those in iCal and the Address Book until you have synchronized your Palm device or devices with them. Backup before performing the initial synchronization, and be sure to overwrite each Palm device the first time.
If you want a historic snapshot of the data on either Palm device before doing this, first follow the instructions provided by Mark/Space to use the standard Palm conduits instead of Mark/Space Contacts, Events and Tasks, and be sure to set each Palm conduit to Palm overwrites handheld in order to transfer the data from your Palm Vx and Zire 72 to the Palm Desktop. Once there, those records can be exported as vCard and vCal files, and easily imported into the Address Book and iCal if you wish to do that. Edit them as you see fit, once they have been transfered. If you elect to do that, you must thereafter turn off these Palm conduits and reconfigure the Missing Sync to use the Mark/Space conduits, again choosing to have your computer replace the contents on each Palm device on the first synchronization.
Once you've achieved a 'balance' with the records in iCal, the Address Book and your handheld organizers, you can reset the records on your mobile handset. iSync alone performs this function, and later synchronization events with your SONY Ericsson S710a will always be manually triggered, and performed using iSync, not the Missing Sync. Reset once, and subsequently synchronize.
Anything else you want to add to the mix—.Mac Sync, for example—you can then add, initially performing a reset of your .Mac data, then subsequently synchronizing.
Synchronization of your iPod is handled by iTunes and only pulls data from the truth, so it need not be reset, as it cannot write changes to the truth which would adversely affect your other devices.

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