Hi, and dankeschoen for a wonderful tool.

I'm having trouble importing a csv file into BReminder. I've created an automated to-do list/timeline in Excel and would love to import the dates into Reminder as a csv file. But, every time I try to import, Reminder fails and turns off. There are no error messages other than the Report to MS one.

I even exported my Reminder data as a csv file, brought it up in Excel, added a record (name;date)and saved it. It also caused Reminder to fail.

What am I doing wrong???

Thanks for the help.

Pintel

hi,

you should compare an exported csv (from birthday reminder) file to the one saved by excel, use your preferred text editor for that. iirc, excel does provide options for the csv export, i hope there is a working combination among them (at least there was one back then when i programmed the birthday reminder). sorry i don't have excel installed currently so i can't look it up now, it will take at least a month until i can.

looking at the source code, the csv import does seem to prefer the data enclosed in double quotes ("), but it should allow non-quoted data as long as it does not contain any one of the seperation characters. valid seperation characters are [tab], colon, semicolon and dot.

hope that helps. if not, please send the (excel-) exported csv file to birthdayreminder at tropictech.de. but i may not be able to help you with the excel export options until my new comp arrives and is set up.

aloha, andi