ics-import refused on some calendars

[mhonline]

hello

I have a working ICS-file
Import to calendars bound to google works as expected.
import is refused (calender-name not highlighted in choice-window) to:
- remote calendar (bound to owncloud-calendar via CalDAV) is shown, but not highlighted/available
except the ics-import the calendar works as expected

any idea?

mh.

P.S.: edited 16-02-16
prior to this, I had the same problem with a local calendar, but that vanished away .. with now changings from my side

[mhonline]

draw back
SM needed to be restarted (at least twice), than it worked
so all okay

mh.

[mhonline]

draw back again
For no reason I have one calendar, that refuses to import ics-file.
Is there any setting needed in SM-config-file?

rgds
mh.

[mhonline]

Nobody?

the ICS-problems seems to be a little bigger than expected:
I have an ICS-file - validated on http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/ as okay
but during check-up-phase (before opening window to choose import-calendar)
even SM aswell as TB 38.6 terminate import.
It looks, as the calendar-project does a propriatary import-handling, but since there
is no documantation on mozilla.org, it can not be found out, where the problem is
or what needs to be done.

Anybody any info?

m.

[mhonline]

bye the way .. if somebody knows about it:
the error-consol is stating a missing thunderbird/chrome.manifest and a missing extension/chrome.manifest (which exists but on different locations than expected) and thereof can not be read. However, the existing chrome.manifest-files are pointing to chrome.jar
so: is lightning anyhow in need of a running JRE?


m.


(TB 38.6 portable on Win7/HP32, no system-wide Java)

[mgagnonlv]

I don't know what is your specific problem, but I once solved similar issues by importing through Google Calendar.

If you have access to the original calendar, also try other formats, such as csv and vcf. In my case, it was a transfer from Outlook to Thunderbird, and I found that vcf import through Google was what worked best.

It is worth a try (you can delete the Google calendar afterwards). Keep your intermediate files until you check that everything is OK.

[mhonline]

two different problems:
- I learnd, that access to the (own)-cloud-calenders varies for the cloud-admin and normal users (in here: access to normal users is granted only, when the calenar-name has the appendix "_shared_by_cloudownername") - Caldav works fine, so this was my setup-fault
- Lightning (in SM aswell as in TB) does not really follow the ics-formatting-rules. in Lightning, the allowed coding is only Ascii-7-bit or UTF-8. the code-pages 8859/latin-1 (or 1252/latin-1) , UTF-7 and UTF16 will not be accepted aswell as ASCII-8-bit (like CP US 437). Since ASCII-7-bit is not really working on my german localisation, I now use UTF-8, and all works like a charm.
rgds
m.