Or, let's say you're down for a while, or my internet is down for a while, how would I look at and modify my .ics tasks? Let's say I did NOT export them as events, that they are pure tasks? Of what use is the .ics task file? Thank you.

I answered my own question. Mozilla Sunbird works brilliantly !!!

We backup data in realtime to protect against data loss -- we have servers in multiple geographic locations. Unfortunately it's not currently possible to sync with the iCalendar file, so this only provides read-only access to tasks while offline (accessible with calendar software, as you found). Hope this helps!

On a similar topic, I have my linux box at home, pull my ics file every hour, as a backup. But what I would really like is to use something like wget to grab the Print pages for two of my lists.

I have tried using the URL that is in my browser when I click on the Print link for one of my lists, but wget does not seem to be able to pull down the file. Does anyone know how to get local copies of the Print pages?

This would be the best kind of backup for me, since the ics file requires either more software to use, or some ics to txt conversion, which turns out is not that easy to do.

Thanks.

dnaphil, the print pages are always authenticated, so you'd need to provide wget with your Remember The Milk username/password. The arguments should be something like:

--http-user=USER
--http-password=PASS

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the help emily. But I am still having some trouble. I think the cause of it has to do with the fact that the URL for the print page, does not end as a file.

For instance, the URL for my Print page is something like this:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/print/user/######/

Where the #'s are a real number. When wget goes after this page, it tries to an index.html file such as:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/print/user/######/index.html

This is not a real file and thus wget fails.

Do you know what the real file name would be? If I could give wget a real filename to go after, I think it would work.

Thanks.

dnaphil, I was able to use wget to successfully save the file as print.html with this:

wget --http-user="username" --http-password="password" http://www.rememberthemilk.com/print/username/xxxxxx/ -O print.html

Hope this helps!

That worked! Thank you so much Emily. That will make things so much easier for me.