Did u read the FAQ? - stam

I've never used Sunbird, but out of curiosity i read the FAQ and within 30 seconds or reading your post i found the following:

"Sunbird/Lightning can also work with files based on the iCal standard. These files have the .ics file suffix and can be opened, imported, exported and subscribed to."

So it would appear that you pulled that one out of your ass :D

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Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 01:27 AM PDT

Did u read the FAQ? - jlkilgore1

The developers claim that Sunbird works with Mac organizer utilities, and no doubt they are right if your files are correctly produced and formatted, the wind is blowing from the right direction and the moon is in the correct phase, but I haven't been able to find anything that looks like a user's manual and information on troubleshooting is basically nonexistent. I'm trying this myself with stand-alone Sunbird and have made frustratingly-slow progress. This is hindered by the minimal (read "deficient") list of links on the Sunbird project portal page (e.g. no link there to the FAQ (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html , which, by the way, is a jumble of information mostly about Lightning, the browser version of Sunbird.) Not finding what I needed, I blundered through about half-way so far as follows:

I made a new iCal using a .vcal file exported from Palm Desktop (during export got a non-impressive error message, so I proceeded.) Although iCal could read the .vcal file no problem, Sunbird pretended to import the .ics the file exported by iCal, but no data showed up in Sunbird. I looked more closely at the iCal calendar and saw a wierd kind of corruption (see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8202013#8202013) and manually deleted a lot of junk, after which the resaved iCal calendar data imported into Sunbird fine. I still haven't figured out why I can't import Address Book exported data but I won't reproduce the error messages here and suffice to say Sunbird doesn't take vcard or tab-delimited files, and the Address book archive remains grayed-out when I try open the import menu.

Sorry to load up VT response space with such a lot of detail, but so far this stuff isn't in the message boards where it belongs and my point is that this is yet another open-source app with too little support available for the average schmuck.

The previous poster's first line, stating that (s)he hasn't actually used the software, is clearly the most useful part that post. Reasonable people will read that and think - "Well, (s)he can't have anything useful to say" and they will be right.

I think that person's rude answer warrants some kind of hand slap. In other words: Newsflash! Until you've actually - ohmygawd - tried! (heaven forbid!) to do what a questioner is asking about, you don't actually know better. Imagine that! So don't be such a weenie about it! If this characterization of your attitude is unfair, please check the following, which is sure to make you feel better:

http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/trashcan.jpg

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Tuesday, September 30 2008 @ 06:55 PM PDT

re: Did u read the FAQ? correction - jlkilgore1

OK, my bad - didn't read whole FAQ. Thought Lightning was a browser add-on, but actually is a Thunderbird add-on. (By the time I'd found it, I'd already screwed around about an hour too long with this stuff.) Importing a Sunbird or other address file into the Mac vervion of TBird looks like another research project. (MozillaZIne-posted instructions use a nonexistent File menu selection.)

The previous poster is still a jerk. OK, I'll shut up now.

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Tuesday, September 30 2008 @ 07:36 PM PDT