Russell Talbot

Q: Calendar slow, beach balling after Yosemite upgrade

After upgrading to Yosemite, any change I make to a Calendar event cause the program to beach ball for 2 to 10 seconds. Very annoying as I schedule my business and personal life via the calendar app on my mac. Please help!

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 9:20 AM

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  • by Hanssa,

    Hanssa Hanssa Oct 22, 2014 1:00 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Oct 22, 2014 1:00 AM in response to Russell Talbot

    I have this problem as well.

  • by icanhaziphone,

    icanhaziphone icanhaziphone Oct 22, 2014 8:10 AM in response to Hanssa
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    Oct 22, 2014 8:10 AM in response to Hanssa

    Try this...it seems to have worked.

     

    1) Export calendars you want to keep to Mac desktop.

     

    2) Delete all calendars on iMac and iPhone.

     

    3) Log out of iCloud on iMac and iPhone and re-log in.

     

    3) Import calendars back to iMac.  Be sure iCloud is selected to enable syncing with iPhone.

     

    I no longer get pinwheeled to sleep on my Yosemite Calendars.

  • by Russell Talbot,Solvedanswer

    Russell Talbot Russell Talbot Oct 31, 2014 11:50 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Oct 31, 2014 11:50 AM in response to Russell Talbot

    Called Applecare and it took over an hour, but we figured it out through process of elimination. It was my google calendar that was causing Calendar to beachball. Went into system prefs: internet accounts: and turned off all my google calendars. Close and relaunched Calendar it worked perfectly!

  • by Jeff Hitchcock,

    Jeff Hitchcock Jeff Hitchcock Nov 1, 2014 1:32 PM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Nov 1, 2014 1:32 PM in response to Russell Talbot

    iCal is now useless for me due to this problem.

     

    I have two Google Internet accounts, neither of which have calendars turned on, so Russell Talbot's solution doesn't apply.

     

    Tried exporting icanhaziphone's solution but can't even get iCal to export -- it just hangs with the pinwheel.

     

    Clearly there is a major issue with iCal under Yosemite. Apple, suggestions or -- better yet -- real solutions?

  • by Slarmsk,

    Slarmsk Slarmsk Nov 2, 2014 12:10 PM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Nov 2, 2014 12:10 PM in response to Russell Talbot

    Russell's trick worked for me, but only after I also disabled all my accounts (except iCloud) in the Calendar Preferences as well. Now everything is preloaded in there and it doesn't beachball. Thanks!

  • by Jeff Hitchcock,

    Jeff Hitchcock Jeff Hitchcock Nov 4, 2014 2:14 PM in response to Jeff Hitchcock
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    Nov 4, 2014 2:14 PM in response to Jeff Hitchcock

    Finally had enough and took my MacBook Pro into the local Apple Store. Genius Bar team reinstalled Yosemite and then wiped all Calendar accounts. Restored from iCloud, with just one account present in the Calendar list.

     

    Works perfectly.

  • by frankv2005,

    frankv2005 frankv2005 Nov 5, 2014 10:45 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Nov 5, 2014 10:45 AM in response to Russell Talbot
  • by rainfantino,

    rainfantino rainfantino Dec 1, 2014 3:46 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Dec 1, 2014 3:46 AM in response to Russell Talbot

    If you rely on Google calendars, what good is turning them off?

  • by thirstycamel509,

    thirstycamel509 thirstycamel509 Dec 24, 2014 1:49 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Dec 24, 2014 1:49 AM in response to Russell Talbot

    I've been having the same issue as all of you guys except I didn't upgrade and I don't use Google Calendars - just Apple ones. I have a few that are in iCloud, one that is shared and a couple of local ones. The issue came out of no where, just started having poor performance one day. Tried the usual – restarting, updating etc but no joy. I started following the advise on one of the threads about backing up, deleting calendars and then clearing cache but I thought before going that far that I would try just deleting and see if adding one at a time back in, I would be able to see if a single calendar was the culprit. Weirdly though after deleting and putting them back in I've had no issues – everything seems to be back to normal.

     

    I would just advise though that after deleting and putting them back in, iCal doesn't seem to honour iCloud calendars - it automatically puts them back in as local ones (On My Mac). To set them up again as iCloud calendars I had to do the following:

     

    1. Create a New Calendar

    File > New Calendar > iCloud

     

    2. Then Import your iCloud calendar but assign it to the new one you've just created.

    File > Import

  • by BrownBrady,

    BrownBrady BrownBrady Aug 4, 2015 7:58 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Aug 4, 2015 7:58 AM in response to Russell Talbot

    Well that doesn't really help those of us who use Google Calendar on all of our devices doesn't it?

  • by BrownBrady,

    BrownBrady BrownBrady Aug 4, 2015 8:22 AM in response to BrownBrady
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    Aug 4, 2015 8:22 AM in response to BrownBrady

    For people with Google Calendars, this was how I fixed it in Yosemite:

     

    1. Close all apps except Activity Monitor.

    2. Go to Preferences > Internet Accounts.

    3. Delete the "offending" account and return to Preferences.

    4. Observe Activity Monitor CPU activity for a relatively idle moment after the account is deleted. I waited 5 minutes.

    5. Add the Google account again via Preferences > Accounts.

    6. Open the Calendar app and wait a few minutes until all events are added back. I waited 5 minutes.

     

    I noticed mine only started doing this after I changed my Google Account password. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. But the calendar no longer crawls in the foreground. It now scrolls smoothly in Day View.

  • by jamiecurle,

    jamiecurle jamiecurle Jul 18, 2016 1:57 AM in response to Russell Talbot
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    Jul 18, 2016 1:57 AM in response to Russell Talbot

    I also had this problem but none of the solutions worked for me.

     

    After some inspection I discovered that by unchecking all of the calendars under settings > "google account" > delegation I was able to get the calendar back to full speed again.

     

    Hope this helps someone in the future.