A few people have emailed me in response to this post, asking me how to move Outlook Calendar Items to Mac OS X. Here are the steps I took:
- Open Calendar.
- Tools >> Find >> Find
- Click in “Look For” field, then hit Enter (this should find all your Calendar entries).
- Select all Calendar entries (hint: click on the blue Calendar icon in the left column first).
- “Actions” >> “Forward as iCalendar”. (trying to forward more than 1000 seemed to fail – you might have to perform this operation in batches).
- Send this email to yourself.
Importing Calendar items is less elegant.
- Save all your attached iCalendar files to a folder your Mac can access.
- Open this folder in the Finder.
- Select all files within.
- Drag these files onto your iCal icon in the dock.
- iCal pops up a dialogue for each file, asking which Calendar you’d like to import it into. I just held down the enter key. :) Annoying, but much better than paying for 3rd party migration software.
Enjoy.