Recover iCal 10.5 files in 10.6?

I installed Mac OSX 10.6 and have the old 10.5 on a seperate HDD. Can I now simply copy the old iCal-Data into the new iCal-installation?

I tried ~/Libarary/Application Support/ but there is no Folder called iCal?

shox

Posted 2010-05-29T18:29:26.887

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Answers

Try this.

1) Boot into 10.6 and mount the 10.5 HD

2) Open migration assistant

3) Choose to migrate user accounts

4) Tell it to merge/replace the account you want with your old data

That will migrate iCal and all your old settings.

Rwky

Posted 2010-05-29T18:29:26.887

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I can only access the files over ssh and the assistant can't handle that :/ – shox – 2010-05-29T19:52:21.263

Is the 10.5 install on another mac with a firewire port if so you can connect the two computers via firewire and boot up the old one in target disk mode by holding the T key at startup. – Rwky – 2010-05-29T20:24:47.670

no, it's in another PC mounted with ubuntu. I don't have another Mac to fire it up :/

Is there no place where my calendars are saved? – shox – 2010-05-29T21:25:40.577

there is a folder ~/Library/Calendars which you could copy over, I have no idea if copying it over will work. – Rwky – 2010-05-29T23:27:07.040

In iCal, File | Export your calendar to an iCal data file (.ics).
Transport it to the other HDD
In iCal under that OS, import the file.

JRobert

Posted 2010-05-29T18:29:26.887

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