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Q: new entries revert to "new event"

Just within the last few days, Calendar has begun consistently misbehaving. I create a new event, assign it to a calendar, fill in information such as time and notes. I close the editing window, the new title displays (I'm using Month View) for just a second, and then it reverts to "New Event," and everything I've entered is lost. Oddly, when I enter all the information a second time, it always seems to stay.

 

As far as I know, I haven't made any changes to my OS (10.9.5) or to Calendar (7.0), neither via their settings nor any other way. FYI, I'm using iCloud to sync between the calendars on my MBPro and my iPhone (4S, running 7.1.2).

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on May 15, 2015 5:45 PM

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  • by Server rookie,

    Server rookie Server rookie Dec 8, 2015 8:10 AM in response to csl
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    Dec 8, 2015 8:10 AM in response to csl

    Yep, I can report the same thing, only for me it happened sooner. I almost came accustomed to being back to normal and then it hit me again. Scary stuff.

  • by Server rookie,

    Server rookie Server rookie Dec 16, 2015 5:01 AM in response to Easy61
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    Dec 16, 2015 5:01 AM in response to Easy61

    The issue is back on 10.7 as well. Today I noticed that if you enter a new event and only give it a name, it will stick. After syncing you can add the specifics like time, category, notes etc. Is that working for others too?

  • by deeewayne,

    deeewayne deeewayne Dec 16, 2015 1:12 PM in response to Server rookie
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    Dec 16, 2015 1:12 PM in response to Server rookie

    have the same issue. i fill out all the info, hit enter and it reverts back to "new event". only then, when i edit that, does it stick. not cool.

  • by Lucialoo,

    Lucialoo Lucialoo Dec 20, 2015 3:07 PM in response to Server rookie
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    Dec 20, 2015 3:07 PM in response to Server rookie

    Not sure if this will work reliably for me but so far so good-  thank you. 

     

    I appreciate all the intelligent responses from users,  but people have been having this problem at least since may of 2015.   Has anyone from apple spoken up about what the issue is ?????

     

    Unfortunately my appts. revert back to "new event" totally randomly,  whether I first save in the default calendar (as others have suggested) and change later,  or not.

     

    It's a total crapshoot and it's a waste of my time !!

  • by jciccare,

    jciccare jciccare Jan 7, 2016 2:59 AM in response to hueyo
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    Jan 7, 2016 2:59 AM in response to hueyo

    I first noticed this issue in mid-2015 while on Mavericks.  I recently upgraded to El Capitan, for good reasons after holding off several months to avoid the "10.x.0" effect, and today was disappointed to experience the same issue.  Calendar 8.0 (2092.2), El Capitan 10.11.12, dearly beloved and much-upgraded MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011). 

     

    I am busily self-employed.  I use and view 6 calendars, 5 of which are shared with my partner/girlfriend (J Personal, J Work, J Reminder [not shared], K Personal, K Work, Us).  I'm J, she's K.  In addition -- I assume this isn't relevant -- I also subscribe to 11 other calendars as part of my work (I use FullSlate to manage appointments in my coaching business for myself and several other coaches).  Back to the main issue: I'm currently trying a workaround that exploits the fact that most of the entries I create on a typical day are in J Work, so in Calendar Preferences/General I've changed Default Calendar to J Work.

     

    I'll try the "Click the + button" workaround that others have suggested.  I will also report the issue to Apple.

     

    Has anyone visited the other discussions on the same topic?  Are there any new workarounds on those threads?

  • by bcoughlin,

    bcoughlin bcoughlin Jan 7, 2016 6:39 AM in response to jciccare
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    Jan 7, 2016 6:39 AM in response to jciccare

    Has anyone noticed this?

    If you enter one event the event details get reset. You have to re-enter details, as others have described. BUT if you enter more events right after that they are perfectly fine.

     

    I want to try Command-R ("Refresh Calendars") before entering a new event one day but I'll have to wait to try it. Maybe someone could try it for me on a new day with a possibly out of sync calendar? I'm guessing that might work. But for me today since I've already entered/re-entered an event the new ones I try are working.

  • by Lucialoo,

    Lucialoo Lucialoo Jan 7, 2016 6:53 AM in response to jciccare
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    Jan 7, 2016 6:53 AM in response to jciccare

    I'm still using Mavericks and still having the same problem I described above and described by deeewayne.  It's really disappointing to hear the bug is still there in El Capitaine,  which I've also been hesitating to install.

     

    Unfortunately I've seen no real fixes shared by users and no responses whatsoever by Apple in these threads.

     

    The most efficient way of handling it I have used (not a true solution) is to enter an appointment,  attempt to save or click out of it quickly until it reverts to "new event" and then after that  enter more detailed information.  Unfortunately the appointments still revert back rather randomly, but this way I am not entering a ton of detail and then losing it.  In my experience after it reverts back once, it does not do it again.  Sounds like both deeewayne and server rookie have found this to be the case too.

  • by eddysch,

    eddysch eddysch Jan 16, 2016 7:59 AM in response to Lucialoo
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    Jan 16, 2016 7:59 AM in response to Lucialoo

    A maybe solution:

    In Calender  'preferences' choose your main cloud agenda as the standard agenda.

    I just tried this and it seems to work...

  • by Yunoshare,

    Yunoshare Yunoshare Jan 18, 2016 9:06 AM in response to hueyo
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    Jan 18, 2016 9:06 AM in response to hueyo

    I have lost business, and appointments, while waiting over a year for a fix, and have given up on all these work-a-rounds (they all work sometimes but not always, i.e. you can't depend on the Apple calendar). Can anyone recommend a calendar to use INSTEAD of the Apple Calendar (they obviously have abandoned the issue, so its time for all of us to move on). Thanks in advance!

  • by bcoughlin,

    bcoughlin bcoughlin Jan 21, 2016 1:11 PM in response to hueyo
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    Jan 21, 2016 1:11 PM in response to hueyo

    Since I started doing Command-R ("Refresh Calendars") when I first call up the Calendar for the day I've been having no trouble with this.

  • by Myrdinn63,

    Myrdinn63 Myrdinn63 Jan 27, 2016 5:36 AM in response to George Mattingly
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    Jan 27, 2016 5:36 AM in response to George Mattingly

    Hi George,

     

    I was struggling with this bug for almost a year now, always entering the data for a new event twice. Unfortunately, I must have forgotten to do this numerous times and ditto consequences… Now, I was really getting annoyed and looked on the web. For such a persistent bug, it was rather heard to find related topics. Until I hit this thread. So many replies with same issue but no cure.

    So I tried your solution Preferences > Advanced, and deselect "Turn on time zone support."… and it worked!! Mysteriously!

    Although this error happens as I remember me at 100% of all entries, I tried a second test with exact same entries as a previous failed one… Bummer! The same 'revert to first version' of the new event occurred. Only the title was kept but all subsequent changes made were ignored after closing the edit.

     

    I will have to continue my search through this thread I suppose.

    Apple, why do you just leave us again in the cold? My addiction for more than 20 years now to their products is becoming less and less harder to overcome...

     

    Thank you all who are trying to help each other through this platform, something which should be solely the responsibility of Apple itself.

  • by Myrdinn63,

    Myrdinn63 Myrdinn63 Jan 27, 2016 9:24 AM in response to George Mattingly
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    Jan 27, 2016 9:24 AM in response to George Mattingly

    Meanwhile, I did some testing on iCal iMac (10.7.5 but apparently everybody else up to El Capitan is left with this bug) by double clicking in a given day > enter title of the event > double clicking the event > edited for all tests the same values like recurrence and 'message with sound'

    - NO PROBLEM when entering a new event WITHOUT CHANGING the DEFAULT CALENDAR; tested several times; even if default calendar is SAME or DIFFERENT from the one on iCloud or other iOS devices

    - FAILED when creating a new IDENTICAL EVENT BUT CHANGED to a NON-DEFAULT CALENDAR; this failed on each test! Also with or without prior synching iCal, Time Zone support turned on, etc.

    - changing the default calendar in iCloud did NOT changed these results; on each occasion where a new event was changed to a non-default calendar, the fault occurs

     

    Remark:

    After entering or editing an event, one can remark on top of the screen (iCal 5.0.3) next to the '+'-button the indication 'Updating...' (or something similar; I use the Dutch version where it states 'bijwerken…' MOMENTARILY appearing TWICE. When you try to quickly REOPEN AND BEFORE this 'UPDATING' appears, a 'virgin' event which was edited a first time (switching to a non-default calendar to induce the fault - reversion to previous values of the virgin event), one can see in the event-edit-window MOMENTARILY the CORRECT VALUES reverting to the faulty 'virgin' values. As already expected, the fault (bug) lies in the synching process.

     

    Thank you all who are trying to help each other through this platform, something which should be solely the responsibility of Apple itself.

  • by usbears,

    usbears usbears Jan 29, 2016 10:29 AM in response to bcoughlin
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    Jan 29, 2016 10:29 AM in response to bcoughlin

    Thank you!  Command-R ("Refresh Calendars") seems to work.  Very frustrating bug.

  • by Robert Alexander5,

    Robert Alexander5 Robert Alexander5 Jan 29, 2016 11:13 AM in response to hueyo
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    Jan 29, 2016 11:13 AM in response to hueyo

    I am having the same exact problem, but my MacBook is running El Capitan.  It was happening under Yosemite and I was hoping the upgrade would fix, but NO!

     

    Thanks

  • by Lucialoo,

    Lucialoo Lucialoo Feb 3, 2016 6:52 AM in response to hueyo
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    Feb 3, 2016 6:52 AM in response to hueyo

    Does anyone know if there is a way to turn off "auto update" or auto synch with icloud and just refresh/update the calendar  manually ? 

     

    I've been working with this theory for a while and now I am more convinced.   I think part of the malfunction is that when an event is entered the calendar tries to synch with icloud so quickly that the synch happens before the data that is put in the event is even saved.    I was recently working offline for quite a while and entered a ton of events.  The calendar would try to update immediately and give me an error message before I had even finished entering an event-  very annoying. Of course the error message was indicating that the calendar "could not connect with the server" because I was offline.   I was waiting to see if my events would disappear once I got back online again.

     

    The positive outcome is that every single event I entered was saved in the calendar and synched later when I was back online.   I cannot close this comment without griping once again that all of us users seem to be working much harder on a solution than apple is.  None of the upgrades since Yosemite have fixed this bug.

     

    if anyone knows if the auto-update function can be turned off,  I would appreciate knowing about it.

     

    Thank you !!!

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