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Google Calendar is not recognizing VALARMs from .ics files when importing. Consider the calendar below with one event and a reminder. Everything imports fine except for the reminder email - (specified by the VALARM section), which is ignored by the import.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:Recurring

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20160408T231500
SUMMARY:Groceries
DESCRIPTION:Get food
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:EMAIL
DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder
SUMMARY:Alarm notification
ATTENDEE:mailto:foo@example.com
TRIGGER:-P0DT0H30M0S
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR
singularity
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Found a solution.

Was it fixing newline characters? No.

Was it adding a UID? No.

Was it adding a DTSTART attribute? No.

The same .ics file must be imported twice before Google Calendar will honor the VALARM notifiers.

Event details will be imported on the first import. The second import will import the alarms. Ugh...

Sorry about the tinge of frustration. It was by dumb luck I found the solution buried in an obscure reply on one of the Google Calendar forum threads.

singularity
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In my case the trick was to enable notifications on the specific calender first.

So the steps are the following:

  1. Create/Edit the calendar you want to add/import events from .ics file to
  2. Enable notifications for event notifications (both, for normal events and daily event)
  3. Import the .ics file to the configured calendar

Note: the exact order of the steps is neccessary

mentalo
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