NUD to iCal

Back in the day, Now Up-to-Date (NUD) was the undisputed champion of calendar sharing for Mac users. We know, we're the original developers. But it's getting a little long in the tooth, and doesn't sync with the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, so many NUD users are migrating to iCal. But how do you transfer all those events in NUD to iCal?

NUD to iCal is a free utility that copies events from Now Up-to-Date to iCal. It will create a new calendar in iCal for each category in NUD and copy all events to it. Events in NUD are converted to the following event types in iCal:

NUD to iCal to BusyCal

The NUD to iCal script will also allow you to convert your NUD data to BusyCal. Since iCal syncs with BusyCal via Sync Services, once the NUD calendar data has been transferred to iCal, it will instantly sync to BusyCal as well. NUD users should be very comfortable using BusyCal. It provides many of the calendar sharing and personal productivity features NUD users have come to rely on, while maintaining compatibility with iCal, MobileMe, and the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch.

NUD users are welcome to run this free script to transfer their data to iCal, whether or not they plan to use BusyCal. Once the data is transferred to iCal, you may download a 30-day trial of BusyCal and test it out. If you later decide not to use BusyCal, just stop using it and return to iCal, and all of your data will be current in iCal.

Requirements

The NUD to iCal script requires NUD 5.3.2. If you don't have it, you can download it from here:

http://www.nowsoftware.com/download.html

If any of the categories you are attempting to transfer are public categories, then the server must be online. If the server is not online, you may be able to export the public category, then import it as a private category and try again.

How to use NUD to iCal

Launch NUD to iCal and select the following options:

• Source calendar — You may copy events from all calendars (categories) in NUD, or a single calendar.
• Date — All events on or after the date specified will be copied to iCal.

It is recommended that you set a short date range, like one year, and NOT import 10+ years of events from NUD to iCal, as it will take a long time (many hours) to process and iCal will run very slowly if you add that many events to it.

When you click Start, a new calendar will be created in iCal for each source calendar (category) in NUD, and all events that occur after the date specified will be copied to iCal. The progress will be displayed on the bottom of the window while the events are being imported.

Processing can take a while depending on the size of your calendar. Make sure you allow plenty of time for processing to complete and do not use or quit NUD or iCal while NUD to iCal is running. You may click the Stop button at any time to stop processing.

An alert will be displayed once processing is complete, informing you how many events were imported and to reconfigure the repeating events in iCal.

Note: NUD stores repeating events as a series of individual events, whereas iCal stores repeating events as a single event with a recurrence rule. Therefore, repeating events in NUD are not copied to iCal. Instead, only the first occurrence of a repeating event in NUD is copied to iCal and the word "[REPEATING]" is appended to the event title so you can easily find these events in iCal and reconfigure the repeat interval.

You may search for the repeating events in iCal by entering "repeating" in the search field in the upper-right hand corner of iCal.

A list of the matching events will appear on the bottom of the window.

You may then double-click each one, and reconfigure the repeat interval and edit the event title, as appropriate.

And that's it. All of your events in NUD have been copied to iCal.