Export of Calendar incomplete

[Kurt Barthelmess]

Outlook 2000 from the Office 2000 Professional suite.

I was thinking about migrating my DayTimer stuff to Outlook (which I had
never used), so I entered some recurring holidays - 20 of them. Then just to
check to be sure I had done it correctly, I exported those out to a .csv
file. Of the 20 items entered, only 14 were exported. I went back and checked
to see what I had fat-fingered, but Outlook correctly shows the non-exported
items as holidays. Knowing about how Outlook doesn't export recurring items
as such, I did another export - this time with a date range from 1/1/2009 to
12/31/2050. Some (not all) of the missing items started to appear, but not as
expected. For example, Thanksgiving Day had been entered as a yearly
recurring holiday for the fourth Thursday in November, starting 11/26/2009.
The export listed these dates for Thanksgiving:

11/22/12
11/23/17
11/22/18
11/23/23
11/23/28
11/22/29
11/23/34
11/22/35
11/22/40
11/23/45
11/22/46

While those are the correct dates, there's obviously quite a few missing.

Any ideas as to what might be happening? I don't want to spend a lot of time
and effort migrating to Outlook if it's not going to be possible to reliably
export stuff out of it.

Thanks

Kurt

 

[Kurt Barthelmess]

Update:

The problem is resolved in Outlook 2007. All appropriate entries are
exported. Unfortunately, the .csv file is improperly formatted (entries are
broken across multiple lines). That at least, is fixable.

Now I have to decide if I want to spend $240 (Office Basic upgrade) to $330
(Office Pro upgrade) for a calendar.

Kurt

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Now I have to decide if I want to spend $240 (Office Basic upgrade) to $330
(Office Pro upgrade) for a calendar.

Office can be had for less than that.

 

[Kurt Barthelmess]

Office can be had for less than that.

Depends on whether I want to buy pirated stuff[g]. Actually, Yes, it can be
gotten somewhat cheaper, but since all I need is the calendar function, it
may be best just to write my own.

Kurt

 

[Gordon]

Office can be had for less than that.

Depends on whether I want to buy pirated stuff[g]. Actually, Yes, it can
be
gotten somewhat cheaper, but since all I need is the calendar function, it
may be best just to write my own.

Kurt

No need. Already done for you. Try this:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

 

[Kurt Barthelmess]

Yes, I looked at Sunbird. It has some problems with exports too. It also
(like Outlook) wants to store the database in my profile (%AppData%) which is
a pitn. I'm going to try to move that when I get a chance. Starting from
scratch is a last resort.

Kurt