ICS Calendar files

[Ted Landis]

Greetings,

I have been working with some Lotus Notes based customers and when they send
me an invitation to a meeting it comes in an ICS formatted attachment. If I
try to open it it opens in iCal.

Is there any way to open these files in Entourage? I can always add a
calendar event by hand but it's nice to be able to do it directly from
Entourage.

This also affects the sending of the reply (acceptance) to the meeting,
working in iCal, not in Entourage.

Thanks,
Ted

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I have been working with some Lotus Notes based customers and when they send
me an invitation to a meeting it comes in an ICS formatted attachment. If I
try to open it it opens in iCal.

Is there any way to open these files in Entourage? I can always add a
calendar event by hand but it's nice to be able to do it directly from
Entourage.

This also affects the sending of the reply (acceptance) to the meeting,
working in iCal, not in Entourage.

As with any file on the Mac OS X:

Drag one .ics attachment to your desktop so it makes an .ics file there.
Yes, by default it has an iCal icon.

Select it, and right-click (or control-click) and choose Get Info, or else
just press cmd-I to Get Info.

Go to "Opens With". Choose Microsoft Entourage (2004, or 11.x.x if there's
more than one). If you want all .ics files to open with Entourage in future,
now click the "Change All" button. Then close the Get Info window.

Now, not only will .ics files on your hard disk open in Entourage, but so
will .ics attachments within email. You will only see these as direct
invitation messages (which you can accept, decline, etc.) if they've been
sent from Entourage, or from Outlook on the same Exchange server, but they
will at least be seen as Entourage attachments otherwise and will open as
Entourage events when double-clicked.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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