azawune01: Make uneditable events in iCal editable

Saturday, 25 June 2011

Make uneditable events in iCal editable

I recently synchronized my Facebook events with my Google calendar, and then I added that calendar to iCal via CalDAV. When I want to add one of those events to one of my published calendars on my website, I always try to copy the event from the Facebook events calendar and paste it in the other calendar.

However, I usually want to edit the event which sometimes causes all sorts of headaches because it's either not editable (even though I'm editing a copy in my own calendar) or it wants to send emails to all my invitees. This is due to the fact that I am not recognized as the event's organizer. So I devised a rudimentary way to make such copied events editable and hassle free. My solution is crude and slightly convoluted, so I am hoping someone out there will post a better version in the comments.

Basically, I used a Folder Action to obtain an .ics file of the single event, edit it to remove the ORGANIZER field, and then open the edited file. ...