More Leopard calDAV fun. Migration!
As you know from my last post, I have lots and lots of calendars. It used to be much much worse. Sharing calendars between my three Macs before Leopard server was a pain in the ass. Sure, you could put a calendar on a regular DAV server and subscribe to that calendar on your other machines, but you could not write to that calendar from any machine other than that which created it initially. All subscribed machines were read-only. What does this mean to me? You know about my 14 calendars, right? Triple it. That's right. I used to have 42 calendars on each of my 3 machines. 14 calendars to which I could write and 28 to which I was subscribed so I could read any appointments from my other two machines. What a mess.
Leopard calendar server has brought me back to a debatably sane 14 calendars. But how does one migrate all of those calendars spread across multiple machines onto the shiny new calDAV server? Like so:
1. Subscribe to your shiny new calDAV server (under the Accounts tab) in iCal preferences.
2. Create a new calendar on your calDAV server through iCal (File Menu -> new Calendar -> your server) for each of your 14 calendars.
3. Create a *.ics file from your old calendar by:
a. Selecting the calendars you want to export by using the export functionality in iCal (File Menu -> Export) on each of your machines or...
b. Mounting your DAV server and downloading all of 'em at once (assuming you're keeping your calendars on a DAV server now, which I was, this method is a lot easier for obvious reasons)...
4. Select the calendar from the source list (one residing on your new calDAV server) and import the *.ics files you wish to store in the new calendar (File Menu -> import).
Your appointments are now on your calDAV server and will show up on all of your subscribed machines fully editable from all.