Someone sent you an invitation to an event as an .ics file, and you wish to add it to your Google calendar
The first part is to import the file. To do this, click the + icon to the right of the “Add a friends calendar” located on the left side of the page. After clicking the icon, from the available options select ‘Import’
Now, the obvious thing to do would be to just to click the button that says “Select file from your computer”, select the .ics file and click import, but if you would do that, chances are that you’ll see the dreaded:
‘Failed to import events: Could not upload your events because you do not have sufficient access on the target calendar..’
The solution for this is to manually edit the .ics file prior to importing it and replace all occurrences of “UID:” with “UID:X” (without the quotes). After doing this and saving the file, proceed with the import and all should be fine.
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Thank you thank you thank you! I’ve been hitting my head against the wall in frustration because of this problem! Lucky I ran into this very simple workaround. Thanks for sharing.
That didn’t work for me. I removed the UID line completely and that did the trick.
It worked for me, thanks! Surely if it was this easy, why doesn’t Google fix the import process by replacing the string on import??
This worked! Thanks
What a stupid f*king thing to have to do. But it did the trick. Thank you!
Thank you! There is no way on God’s green interwebs I would have figured this out myself. I’m still stuck on why Google Calendar sometimes interprets Outlook-created invitations properly and why sometimes it gives up and only shows attachments.
Follow the instructions. Open the file in notepad. Use find to locate the “UID” and change it to “UID:X” (without quotes). Save the file by clicking the “Save as type” dialog box and choose “All Files *.*” Save the file by selecting a .ics file and modifying the name. You may then import it into your calendar without issue. GREAT TIP!!
Woohoo! Thanks so much
Worked for me. thanks. Who should I blame for having to do this? Microsoft or Google?
I just ran into this issue, and replacing “UID:” with “UID:X” fixed it, so I was able to import the event.
Thank you for posting this!