Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VCS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VCS to another file type
To convert VCS events to another format, you need Microsoft Outlook or other Data software.
Convert a file to VCS
To convert other file formats to the "Calendar Event File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Outlook or a similar tool.
About VCS files
The .VCS file extension is primarily used for vCalendar Event files. This format was created by the Internet Mail Consortium to let users share calendar appointments and scheduling data across different email and calendar programs. Common applications like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Calendar can sometimes import these files, but native support is becoming rare. The main disadvantage of the .VCS format is its age. It is a legacy standard that was largely replaced by the newer ICS (iCalendar) format in the late 1990s. Many modern web browsers, cloud services, and mobile applications fail to recognize .VCS files, leading to import errors. Users often encounter annoying limits when trying to sync a .VCS file from an older system, such as a legacy Huawei Calendar app, with modern tools like Google Calendar. You should convert .VCS files to ICS to ensure compatibility with modern scheduling software. If you just need to read the schedule data, converting to CSV or TXT is a pragmatic workaround. Because .VCS files are often generated by older or proprietary systems, standard online converters sometimes fail to process them due to text encoding issues or deprecated data fields. Since a .VCS is fundamentally a plain-text file, our tool can easily inspect the file and show internal content, ensuring you can extract your event data even if direct calendar integration fails.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VCS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VCS file to ICS, CSV, PDF, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use Microsoft Outlook or similar software from the "Calendar Event Exchange" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to VCS, try Microsoft Outlook or another comparable tool in the "Calendar Event Exchange" category.
The VCS Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VCS converter.