Q: iCal not saving my event

Hu39... your workaround does not work for me. I am running mavericks osX 10.9.5 and iCal 7.0. The only work around I have found that works is to not change the calendar category when creating the event. After the event is entered and takes, I open it again and change the category. Certainly a bug that Apple needs to address.

Graphiks…I’m sorry that my workaround doesn’t work for you. I am running OSX 10.10.3 and iCal 8.0. I can change the calendar category when initially creating the event by using my workaround—and it doesn’t default to “New Event.” Maybe upgrading to the most current OS and iCal would help???

I am also having the exact same problem as everyone else here. OSX 10.9.5 iCal 7.0. Hu39's workaround was able to work for me. It's not a permanent solution, but something that works for now. I really hope they fix this. I'm not sure how many appointments I am about to miss!!

I'm sure upgrading to yosemite may help, though I am not sure I want to do that yet just for a glitch in ical. I would have to then upgrade several other programs, such as ms office, suitcase and adobe creative cloud. All of which are working fine and I can't justify the expense of upgrading all this as yet.

So sorry Hu39.  Now I understand better what you are saying but it does not work for me.  This is only happening on the calendars I cloud when I am scheduling on that computer it resides on - which is completely weird - you'd think the issue would be the other way round!

Yes Graphiks!  This does at least work - its annoying and a little extra work, but at least it keeps the info!  I am on an iMac running Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and Calendar 6.0 (1648) and it DOES work to schedule the event but NOT change the original calendar, save it, then go back and change the calendar to the one you want.  Thank you!  Let's hope Apple fixes it back to normal soon!

I've got a list of about a dozen suggestions here, including OS upgrades. None of them work. But we might have found a solution: got to Preferences > Advanced, and deselect "Turn on time zone support." For us the problem stopped immediately. Knock on wood. Of course this is only a bad kludgy temporary solution, because any of us who travel NEED time zone support. But it seems to shed light on where the bug might be found. If anyone at the mothership is interested in fixing it.

Hi all, I've been having this same problem for the last 2-3 weeks and echo everyone else's frustration. I tried Mattingly's advice of turning off time zone support but that didn't make it stop (OS 10.9.5, iCal 7.0). The only thing that has worked for me is not changing the calendar from the default... which is a real pain, but not as big of a pain as looking ahead and seeing "New Event" in my calendar and wondering what appointment I'm going to miss that day because iCloud ate it.

Not that I'm an expert, but it seems that the issue must be that the newly created event somehow gets moved to iCloud before the name/time is changed, but then when it is changed, iCloud syncs the "older" version in preference to the newer version. I'll bet it has something to do with inaccurate time logging of the sequence of changes so that the older version overwrites the newer version. Granted, I have no idea how to fix this.

Now this is odd.  I hadn't tried it by scheduling on my iPhone (I usually schedule from my 2 iMacs) - I have Time Zone Support on (Running iOS8 on an iPhone 6) and I scheduled a test and a test2 from both both types of calendar accounts and they took without changing to "new Event".   It only happens for me when I do it from a desktop iMac and I am scheduling from a calendar that is tied to the Apple ID that I am logged into on that computer (and thus is seen as "iCloud")...

This is so strange that everyone seems to be experiencing this on various devices, various versions of OSX, etc.

I think duodenum8 is correct about what happens with iCloud - except it only happens if you change the calendar to another that is within the same iCloud account.  I can't believe we are the only ones ranting about this - it must be fairly widespread, no?

Edit:  Silly me after posting this I see there are MANY other posts on this same topic - LOL!

yup. same thing here. altho, it doesnt revert back to "new event" if im just changing an event that is already there.

I am going to try this work around - to be honest I have tried loads of them and its so frustrating!

Has Apple admitted it is a problem at all and will it be fixed?

That did it.  I stopped changing the Default calendar, and the New Event reversion stopped.  So, now I enter all my data with whatever calendar comes up, exit the entry, reopen it and change to the correct calendar. PITA, but better than losing it all.  I have no fewer than 8 New Events coming up in the next three weeks, and I cannot for the life of me remember what they were all supposed to be.  If I did, I wouldn't need iCal, now would I?

Thank you all for your comments.  I thought that I was going crazy!!   I always make my appts on my Mac running 10.9.5.   I did the test.  If I change the appt before closing, it becomes New Event.  If i close it and then change it, the Event I made it is what appears as text

Same here and it's been going on for weeks now, on my MacBook, iMac, iPad AND iPhone.  I have missed two appointments that I know of because of it and I am fuming that apple won't acknowledge the bug or do anything about it.  Coming hard on the heels of a wifi problem with my iPhone 4S, which they also won't officially acknowledge, far less deal with, I am about done with apple, having used their products consistently since 1988!  And apple wonder why they just can't crack the business market with their machines - this is why, you useless sods - no interest in providing after sales support unless you pay for it.  Grrrrrr.