I cannot see the .ics file in mac desktop Calendar. Why? (iCal4j)

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I've created an ics file using the ical4j library, and I'm saving the file in the following directory: Users/[my name]/Library/Calendars/XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.calendar/Events/

XXXXX... is the calendar which holds some of the ics files I create manually using the Calendar application, so I'm thinking this could be an appropriate place to save the ics file)

My aim is to get this ics file to show in Calendar, but it doesn't, even when I've restarted Calendar. Why is this?

By the way, this is what my ics file contains. It seems valid to me:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Ben Fortuna//iCal4j 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150326T104947Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;VALUE=DATE:20150821
SUMMARY:testing
UID:20150326T104948Z-1@fe80:0:0:0:900c:a0ff:feba:f4a1%9
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Any guidance or corrections would be much appreciated!

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1 Answers

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The VALUE=DATE parameter appears twice on your DTSTART property.

Have you tried to import the same event from the client to see whether it accepts it as a valid one ?

I guess even that is not a guarantee that just dropping a file under this location will work. The client may rely on some DB to keep track of the ics files it actually cares about.