.vcs Mail attachment - iCal opens, but appointment doesn't show up

I'm having a similar problem, and am wondering if anyone knows what is going. Do I need to change the format of the vcs file. It does import it, but nothing shows. Any insight would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

Same for me, just noticed it today.
Would be great if someone had an idea to solve this.

I think we may have figured it out for our purposes.

I wasn't receiving a .vcs attachment in an email, I was copying and pasting the generated .vcs code from a webpage to a text file, saving then importing into iCal. The problem was that I was using TextEdit to do so, which is a RTF editor, so even changing the extension afterwards to .vcs didn't do any good.

The solution: I needed to use a pure text editor. So I tried BBEdit, and someone else tried Smultron. Saved the text file as a .vcs, dragged the file icon into iCal and voila! that worked. I also tried MS Word on Mac, and as long as you changed the format to "Text Only" when saving it also worked.

After re-reading about the attachment problem, I wanted to make sure there wasn't that issue either. I tested that by saving the file as .vcs on a PC using notepad. Sending myself the file from my PC and checking my email/saving off file on the Mac. That import worked as well.

I don't know if that will help you at all. But I thought I'd share....

Thank you so much, however I think I did not explain correctly. I get an email with an appointment, click the appointment and...nothing happens. I see something flying but not entering into ical.

When I get an email from a Mac with an appointment (so not .vcs ) it just works.

Do you have any idea????

Kind regards and thanks for all your effort!!!! 🙂

Indeed Same for me!!!

No idea.

I hope Apple does something with this.

A. Scott McCulloch wrote:
I've received a .vcs file attachment in an email confirming an appointment I made online. iCal isn't importing it automatically

Simply drag the .vcs file attachment out of your email program over on top of the open iCal calendar into which you want to place it. iCal will then automatically place it as a new calendar event with all the required information entered for you.

Neil