Transferring Outlook meeting notices (ics files) to iCal

Hello,
When I receive an outlook meeting notice in Mail the ics file does not show up as an attachment. If I look at the same email in my web account the ics meeting notice shows up and can be downloaded and added to ical with no problems. Is there a way to get the ics file to show up as an attachment in Mail or to have it load in iCal properly? Thanks for the help.
Doug

Is there a solution for this problem. Since I am using Mail I have the same problem. As long as I used Eudora this problem didn't occur.
TIA,
Dick

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Problem importing ics files into iCal

Importing ics files into iCal is the problem, but first here is the background on why I'm trying to import.
I have an iMac and iPad, and recently changed my iPhone 3G for an iPhone 4S. Having got the iPhone 4S I have now set up all my devices to use iCloud. In moving iCal to iCloud an extra calendar was created "automatically" in iCal, called "Me". This "Me" calendar contains a partial duplicate of my main calendar, which is called "My Calendar". In fact, some of the events from "My Calendar" seem to have been moved to "Me", and some have been duplicated.
It seems as it I now need to merge the "Me" and "My calendar" calendars to get back to where I was.
I have tried to export one of the calendars and then re-import it into the other. The export seems to work fine, but every single time I try to re-import the ics file iCal crashes at the end of the import process, and the import is not completed.
Can anyone help? This has been driving me absolutely crazy today!
I even tried manually moving events from one calendar to another, but they reappeared. I think this was because my iPhone/iPad were re-syncing via iCloud and overwriting the changes I had just made.
I don't mind if I end up with one calendar with duplicates as I can remove them with iCal Dupe Deleter.
Or if there are any other alternative solutions I'd love to hear them!
All help greatly appreciated!
(P.S. Is it just me, or is Apple software slowly getting as unreliable as Windows used to be? I get more problems with software updates now than when I first got a Mac about 8 years ago!)

Not a great answer but I dragged the attachment either to the finder - app - ical or the icon. It placed it on the calendar. I clicked in and accepted. So, no auto populate. Need to drag and drop. So glad I paid the 20 bucks to upgrade to 10.8

How do I find my ics files for iCal calendars in Lion?

The migration from mobileme to iCloud destroyed my home calendar. I'm trying to restore.
The files in /library/calendar have funny names that don't map to home.ics or work.ics.
Where are the local copies of .ics files and how can I restore them in iCal?

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The .ics files for the different calendars are in "/Users/<username>/Library/Calendars/<ID>.calendar"
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I have an ics file that opens iCal when I double-click it (either the file in the Finder, or the same file as an attachment in Mail). However, the event described in the ics file is not created.
When I use File->Import in iCal, and select the same file, it asks me to choose the calendar and then the event is created.
Why the different behavior? I would expect dbl-clicking to work exactly the same as doing an Import.
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I think I have solved my problem. I could not get v2 to import to v4 so I was trying to sync to .Mac, then use Mobile Me to bring it down to the new computer and I have succeeded.
On the old laptop, I had to use the RESET SYNC info in the ADVANCED button to make the direction of the data go from the original computer to .Mac, then do the same on the new one to make it go from .Mac to the v4 iCal.
This is how you change the direction of the data when it says it's going to add 1 item and erase 240 but you want to do this the other way around!
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.ics file error : "iCal can't read this calendar file."

I would like to add my flight itinery to my iCal. Downloaded the .ics file from the BA website. When double clicking on it and dragging it to iCal this message pops up: "iCal can’t read this calendar file. No events have been added to your iCal calendar."
file details:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Ben Fortuna//iCal4j 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
I also tried converting it to .vcs. Then iCal asks which calender I would like to add it to but still comes up with above message.
Any ideas?
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Hi!
I managed to import the file when I deleted everything that had to do with HTML code at the end of the file. I'm not exactly sure about the purpose of this code, but deleting it left me with my flights inside my calendar, exactly as I wanted.
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How do I publish calendars imported into iCal from a .ics file to iCloud rather than MobileMe?

Having upgraded my iPhone4 & iPad to iOS5 and my iMac to OSX 10.7.2, I have been having trouble with duplicate calendar entries. Unfortunately, having deleted all but one calendar from the iCloud web interface, I heeded the mistaken advice to disable Calendars in the iCloud preference pane on the iMac and it deleted the calendars that had been removed from iCould from the iMac as well.
A few false starts later, I was able, after disconnecting all my devices from the net, to restore my iCal calendars with TimeMachine from before the chaos started then exported them as .ics files. After rebooting and re-enabling the network to the iMac, iCloud sync purged the restored calendars from iCal again, so I imported the .ics files into iCal and published them again, but the publish options only include MobileMe or a private server, so I chose MobileMe. iCal now happily shows all my calendars on the iMac again, but the iCloud web Calendar app can't see them.
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Solved, I think! What you need to do is log on to your icloud account at www.icloud.com, go to the calendar screen, click the gearwheel and choose New Calendar. Create a calendar here (ie up on the iCloud) with the name you want for your imported calendar data. Then switch to iCal - you may have to quit and relaunch for the new iCloud calendar to appear (or it will probably do so automatically if you wait long enough) then import the data using File->Import->Import... When you get to the step where it asks which calendar you want to import the data into, choose the new iCloud calendar you've just created. Job done!
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Launching .ics file from a website?

i'm trying to provide ical and outlook files for guests to an event. i've linked both an .ics file (for iCal users) and a .vcs file (for Outlook) from the website, yet when a user clicks on either link, code is displayed onscreen as opposed to a prompt to download the file. is there a way to launch these links as file downloads w/o having to zip them? numerous calendar and invitation sites provide this feature, but they are dynamically creating the .ics and .vcs files - though they do end up as downloaded files.
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I've been trying to find an answer for this issue, but I haven't found anything specific to what I'm facing.
When I send or receive an invitation which was sent by Cisco Webex, I simply can't add it to iCal.
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Several months ago I quit iCal and started using BusyMac, it was working ok, but then the company I work moved to Outlook 365 and BusyCal was not ready for that, then when it became ready, it started to present some instabilities... then I quit BusyCal and got back to iCal.
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I tried, and I tried, and I tried again... and here I am.

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Track response of .ICS file(Meeting request) in SAP R/3

Dear Experts,
I am able to send the meeting request to MS-Outlook using the following thread.
[http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/b035a861-5f61-2c10-d086-c4dd779dd253]
When the user opens the .ICS file and accepts the meeting request in MS-Outlook, the MS-Outlook calender gets booked.
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Howdy,
I've been using mail/iCal for some time. I get meeting requests via email from Microsoft Outlook users in the .ics format. I used to be able to just click on the .ics file in mail, or drag it to my calendar, and it would add the meeting. But past few months, when I click on the .ics file, nothing happens. If I drag the .ics file to my calendar, I see a "blank" event with nothing in it on the date of the meeting.
However... if I save the .ics file to my desktop, then go to File -> Import and select that file, it works fine. Just frustrating because it takes a lot of extra steps.
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Hi:
Just started to have the same problem with importing events onto my iBook. Problem has been made worst in that while I get attached ics files from emails coming from my Outlook 2003 application on my desktop computer, emails from work (also using Outlook 2003 on a Microsoft Mail Exchange Network) no longer even include ics file. (Note: Outlook to Outlook meeting invites do work.)
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I've been using mail/iCal for some time. I get
meeting requests via email from Microsoft Outlook
users in the .ics format. I used to be able to just
click on the .ics file in mail, or drag it to my
calendar, and it would add the meeting. But past few
months, when I click on the .ics file, nothing
happens. If I drag the .ics file to my calendar, I
see a "blank" event with nothing in it on the date of
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of extra steps.
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I use Outlook 2013, Hotmail and an Android phone to manage my calendar, with Outlook 2013 and Android synching to the Outlook.com account.
Scenario 1:
1. Receive meeting requests with attached ics files from an Apple Mac user
2. Drag ics file attachment to the Outlook calendar
3. "Meeting" window opens
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Faulting application name: OUTLOOK.EXE, version: 15.0.4675.1003, time stamp: 0x548ba4b9
Faulting module name: pstprx32.dll, version: 15.0.4673.1000, time stamp: 0x54588166
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Faulting process id: 0x1320
Faulting application start time: 0x01d02a0fc01024ab
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Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\Root\Office15\pstprx32.dll
Report Id: 2ce5a0d4-9603-11e4-8369-ac7ba12ac262
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
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1. Receive meeting requests with attached ics files from an Apple Mac user
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Observations:
Re-creating the Hotmail account OST file makes no difference.
The workaround described here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-outlook/cannot-open-ics-meeting-invite/99ce57cc-5ffe-42f7-ba0a-87d6d928cb85
requires approximately 15 clicks, instead of two or three, so isn't workable for large numbers of meeting requests.
Meeting requests can be added to the local pst file calendar successfully. This calendar is not used because it doesn't allow synching with other devices.
System configuration:
Windows 8.1 - Most recent Windows Update check: "No updates are available"
Outlook 2013 (15.0.4675.1003), standalone installation (no Exchange Server) - Most recent Office Updates check: "The latest version of Office is installed on your computer"
Email containing ics attachments (and all other email) is sent to an email alias which is then forwarded to my ISP-provided email address
ISP email address is connected using IMAP/SMTP
Outlook.com / hotmail account is connected using EAS

Sorry for the delay. I was supposed to get alerts on this, but I never did. N2K has been built and rebuilt, and still the error comes up. For one Exchange user that's in the N2K file, I can look at it now, and it matches up with others on the same server.
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is using hosted Exchange, so I can't get onto the server to dig into it. Is it in the Global Address Book, or a user's individual contact?
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