Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Natao arisiva ity resaka mitohy ity. Mametraha fanontaniana azafady raha mila fanampiana.

How can I save calendar data as ics to hdd?

  • 5 valiny
  • 1 manana an'ity olana ity
  • 16 views
  • Valiny farany nomen'i ulimeyer

ulimeyer
ulimeyer
more options

When using the "export" option in the "Events and tasks" menu I only can chose which calendar I want to export, but I can't specify the storage place or format. When using "publish" I can specify both, but the process doesn't start or finish. I'm working on linux mint 18.3, cinnamon. (I have saved a calendar file as .ics before succesfully and have integrated the data into into my phone, but the file is old. No, I don't want to synchronize sunbird and google data, because google calendar keeps re-entering everything into sunbird, thus doubling everything. I'd rather import manually from time to time.)

When using the "export" option in the "Events and tasks" menu I only can chose which calendar I want to export, but I can't specify the storage place or format. When using "publish" I can specify both, but the process doesn't start or finish. I'm working on linux mint 18.3, cinnamon. (I have saved a calendar file as .ics before succesfully and have integrated the data into into my phone, but the file is old. No, I don't want to synchronize sunbird and google data, because google calendar keeps re-entering everything into sunbird, thus doubling everything. I'd rather import manually from time to time.)

All Replies (5)

christ1
christ1
  • Top 25 Contributor
more options

You can choose the export file format from the drop-down menu at the bottom right of the export dialog.

ulimeyer
ulimeyer Tompon'ny fanontaniana
more options

Thanks for trying to help! Yes, so it says in all the descriptions of the procedure, but there is no "bottom right of the export dialog". All I get is the "Which calendar go you want to export from?"-dialog (see image), I choose one, click "ok", and it's gone without any more options whatsoever. Thunderbird is 60.4.0 64 bit.

christ1
christ1
  • Top 25 Contributor
more options

Are you using the Lightning version provided by your distribution?

If so you can try to remove the distribution provided packages for both, Thunderbird and Lightning, and install the vanilla version of Thunderbird from https://www.thunderbird.net/

Note, Lightning is already bundled with Thunderbird, and does not need to be installed separately.

ulimeyer
ulimeyer Tompon'ny fanontaniana
more options

I'm sorry, but I don't get there. I uninstalled, followed your link (found no trace of vanilla, though), installed following the instructions here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux , but nothing was installed. I guess system requirements are missing https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.5.0/system-requirements/ . Going back to installing from the command line I tried to publish again, got the screenshot below for you (maybe the storage address is a bad idea?), but the process starts and goes on infinitely.

ulimeyer
ulimeyer Tompon'ny fanontaniana
more options

Hello, I managed to save my data as .ics, indeed the address I typed was bad, it has to start with file:///home/... So you can regard the problem as solved, thank you very much!