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How To Import ICS File Into Windows 10 Calendar

Last Updated on March 9, 2020 by admin 4 Comments

About a month ago, I helped one of my friends to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 using Microsoft’s free upgrade offer. Although Windows 10 was not automatically activated after the upgrade, we were able to activate Windows 10 after a brief chat with Microsoft support.

Before upgrading to Windows 10, my friend was using Mozilla Thunderbird but wanted to use the Mail app in Windows 10 instead of third-party tools. After adding his email account to Windows 10 Mail, he wanted to import a couple of ICS files into Windows 10 Calendar.

Calendar Restore app

Since Windows 10 Calendar doesn’t support importing ICS files, we had to use a third-party app called Calendar Restore to import ICS files into Calendar in Windows 10.

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For those who don’t know, ICS or .ICS (iCalendar) is a format for calendar files supported by all popular email clients, including Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. Even Google Calendar supports exporting and importing events in ICS files.

Coming back to Calendar Restore app, it’s a free app available in Windows Store designed to help Windows 10 users easily import all calendar events from ICS files to the Calendar app in Windows 10.

Features of Calendar Restore app

# Supports iCalendar (.ICS) files

# Supports ICS files with multiple events

# Allows opening ICS files can be opened directly from email attachments

# Associates .ICS files in File Explorer

# Supports deleting imported events

# Word events appear in local time

And more importantly, the app, according to the developer, doesn’t send any data to any servers.

Using Calendar Restore to import ICS file to Windows 10 Calendar

Method 1 of 2

Step 1: First of all, visit this page of the Store and install the Calendar Restore app. As said before, it’s absolutely free.

Step 2: Launch Calendar Restore app, click the Import button, browse to the ICS file that you want to import into Windows 10 Calendar, select the ICS file, and then click the Open button.

Method 2 of 2

Step 1: Head over to the official Calendar Restore app page (use the link mentioned above) and install the app.

Step 2: Navigate to the folder where the ICS file is located, double-click on the ICS file to open the Calendar Restore app and begin import events.

Filed Under: Windows 10 Tagged: Tips

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Comments

  1. Tim says

    August 2, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    Just save xxx.ics to your PC. Then locate the file and right click and select Open With and click on “calendar”. It will auto open the Win10 Mail app (Mail and Calendar) in the calendar area and imput everything. you just have select save. The calendar restore app could not be found and I refuse to use extra apps to do things that the base app should do.

  2. Sing Min says

    February 4, 2019 at 8:05 am

    Hi, Calendar Restore is not free. It is priced at £1.69 in Store app.

  3. admin says

    August 14, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    Doug, thanks for the heads up.

  4. Doug says

    August 13, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    As of 8-13-2018, Calendar Restore is $1.99 in the Windows Store

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