But it doesn’t import to Google calendar. Am I doing something wrong?

If you’re importing a CSV, it needs to be formatted as per reference. However, the method I suggest for importing from Windows Live is to use the ICS feed:-

1. In Windows Live calendar select “Share” and select your calendar then mark “Share this calendar” and tick “Make your calendar public” (temporarily)
2. You will see option to get the ICS link that says “ICS:Import into another calendar application” – click that and copy the feed URL that begins “webcal://cid-….”
3. In Google Calendar click “Add by URL” from the “Add” on the left hand side, paste in the URL you copied in step 3 and make sure you tick “Make the calendar publicly accessible?” You now have now have the calendar fed into Gcal but not yet imported.
4. Go into the fed Calendar’s settings under Settings>Calendars (click on calendar name) and click on the green ICAL button and open the link in your browser and copy all (Ctrl-A>Ctrl-C) the ics code/text you see and paste into a text editor like notepad and save as an ics e.g. mycal.ics
5. Go to Import Calendars in Gcal (Settings>Calendars>Import Calendars) and import the new file you just made to your preferred calendar most likely your primary and all being well your import is complete.
6. Unsubscribe the fed calendar in Gcal and return to Windows Live and uncheck your calendar as Public to complete the process
References:
[1] About CSV files – Google Calendar Help(Web)
http://www.google.com
Query used: google csv calendar

Thanks

I have actually found a way to syn WL to Google Calendar. It’s a bit messy. I use Mash Ical (http://www.mashical.com) to create a proxy calendar. So, you go into Mash Ical. You can log in with your Gmail, Facebook or OpenID account etc. It’s just to give you an ID. Then you can create a new “folder” to contain calendars. In my case I only include one WL calendar in each “folder” (or calendar) in Mash Ical. When the “folder” or calendar has been created in Mash ical, you can copy its Ical address and subscribe it in Google Calendar. Just make sure you uncheck the “Private” checkbox in WL Calendar events, or every event will turn up as private in Google Calendar.

If you want to use Mash Ical in WL it’s a bit more messy. Because the URL syntaxt of Mash Ical is http://www.mashical.com/cal.ics?id=your calendars id], WL won’t accept it. To import a calendar in WL, it HAS to end with .ics. What I did to work around this, was to create a simple .php file which I saved as an ics file. The only command I used was readfile() which refers to my Mash Ical calendar. Then you create an .htaccess file where you make your webserver compile ics files as a php file. Then in WL Calendar you simply subscribe to your ics file (which really is just a php file mirroring the ics file from Mash Ical).

Hope that can help. It helped me at least.

Benjamin

Are you wanting your Google calendar in WL or your WL calendar in Google? You can put the Google calendar in WL using the instructions I gave in the post. It will be just a 1-way sync though – from Google to Live. You can add events on your google calendar from WL, but they won’t show up or sync to the google calendar.

Google supports XML, ICAL, HTML calendars. Unfortunately, WL uses the ICS format, but Google Calendar can import event information in iCal or CSV (MS Outlook) format.

If you want the WL calendar in Google, it doesn’t look like there’s a way. Maybe someone else out there has figured a work-around…anybody?

Regards, Lynn