File: frigcal-products/unzipped/Calendars/_README.txt

This folder holds one iCalendar ".ics" file per calendar events set.  
All such files here are loaded as calendars on frigcal startup, and 
the GUI displays the union of all their events.

To use calendars, you may:

  1) Use the default file created here automatically on first (or later)
     frigcal start-up when no other calendars are present.

  2) Run script ..\makenewcalendar.py to create any number of new empty
     calendars with names input at the console.

  3) Copy existing files here, possibly exported from other programs.
     frigcal expects these to be in UTF-8 (or ASCII) Unicode format, 
     unless you change the default encoding.  See Version 1.7 notes
     in ..\UserGuide.html's version history for more details.
 
A "Backups" folder is created here automatically when needed, to keep
the most recent prior versions of each of your calendar files, in case
of system failure (see the top-level UserGuide.html for details).

While most users can accept calendar defaults, you may also point frigcal 
to a different calendars file folder by changing the "icspath" setting in
file ..\frigcal_configs.py.  For example, change this setting if you wish 
your calendar files to be located in a folder that is part of a backed-up
archive, instead of the program's own folder.

You may place arbitrary unrelated files and folders here too.  frigcal
looks for and uses only ".ics" files in your calendar folder; only loads
them on startup; and only saves them on window close button presses (and
only after successful backups).  

FOR COMPLETE DETAILS, see the following sections in the main user-help
documentation source, ..\UserGuide.html:

  * Using the Program => Data Files
  * Using Calendars

See also folder 2.0-examples for example calendar files.



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