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I'm moving from one Google Apps domain to another, and when I export my calendars, there are errors when they get imported again. Specifically, recurring events that I made on the original calendar but then changed one instance of in some way (time, title/summary, etc.) before exporting get completely ignored on import. The instance with the changes exists in the .ics file upon export, but only the original recurring event (without the changes) is imported to the new calendar.

Example: I have a specific meeting every two weeks, but sometimes the time gets moved an hour or two so I drag and drop it, or in this case I added "Cancelled - " to the front of it. Here is the relevant part of the exported .ics file for the changed event:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130122T110000
DTSTAMP:20130313T163834Z
UID:5b5e5m7tr1rgnue67vs6glf5g4@google.com
RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/Denver:20130122T100000
CREATED:20110103T164107Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20130204T175418Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:3
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Cancelled - IT meeting
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

Here is the relevant part of the exported .ics file for the original recurring event:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120228T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120228T110000
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=TU;UNTIL=20120410T055959Z
DTSTAMP:20130313T163834Z
UID:sc6f2kv7f94cnno6c0sm07obv5@google.com
CREATED:20110103T164107Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20120328T033550Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:2
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:IT meeting
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

Is there anything I can edit in the changed event (preferably with regular expressions) to get them to import correctly?

Thanks in advance!

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