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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 Stephen Purdy,

    Stephen Purdy Stephen Purdy Feb 4, 2016 10:50 AM in response to hueyo
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    Feb 4, 2016 10:50 AM in response to hueyo

    I have had the same issues, and started wondering why I wasn't being notified! Yesterday I had doctors appointment that it failed to notify me. After reading your posting and the part that said " Oddly, when I enter all the information a second time, it always seems to stay." I did some testing with creating a new event and noticed  at the bottom of the pop-up there are two buttons, the one on the left says show, and the one on the right says delete. When you re-enter the information at the bottom you have 3 buttons. From left to right are Show, Revert, Apply. Once hit select Apply it  properly saves it. So this may be the workaround if you don't want to upgrade to Yosemite.  It seems to be working for me by doing the extra step.

     

    At one time it was the little things that made the Macintosh great, anymore it's the little things that don't work that starting to make me frustrated. Been on Macs since 1984!

  • by DGMC,

    DGMC DGMC Feb 16, 2016 9:36 AM in response to Stephen Purdy
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    Feb 16, 2016 9:36 AM in response to Stephen Purdy

    Glad to have found this link, but disappointing there is no straightforward solution, and I was about to upgrade to El Capitain to solve it... Very surprising that it has not been fixed; makes it much harder to be a Mac advocate (had them for over 20 years).

    Thanks for all your comments

     

    David

  • by Lucialoo,

    Lucialoo Lucialoo Feb 16, 2016 12:30 PM in response to acmac
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    Feb 16, 2016 12:30 PM in response to acmac

    If you hear anything useful from Apple I would very much appreciate if you post it.  They are still the only party that hasn't weighed in.

     

    The rest of this post may not be of value to anyone since I am basically editorializing out of frustration !   Many OS's ago I was perfectly happy syncing my contacts and calendar to my computer through itunes.  Then Apple basically forced everyone to use their cloud in order to sync.  After researching other calendar sync systems,  I begrudgingly went to icloud, who's security I still don't trust.  But at least for a little while the calendar actually worked.  Now it's untrustworthy on a basic functional level.

     

    There used to be a time where apple users were happy to pay more for their products because they functioned so well and as a result boosted productivity and creativity.  Now that apple is more interested in creating a monopoly of sorts,  they seem to spend more energy writing programs that force or trap you into using their products versus making those products more functional and more reliable than their competitors.  Foolish and frustrating direction to take.

  • by Myrdinn63,

    Myrdinn63 Myrdinn63 Feb 16, 2016 12:48 PM in response to Lucialoo
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    Feb 16, 2016 12:48 PM in response to Lucialoo

    I sadly must agree with you...

  • by Robert Alexander5,

    Robert Alexander5 Robert Alexander5 Feb 16, 2016 1:57 PM in response to Stephen Purdy
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    Feb 16, 2016 1:57 PM in response to Stephen Purdy

    Someone in this post suggested hitting Command-R while in iCal which forces the calendars to refresh with the server.

     

    It worked like magic in one try, Zip!!!

  • by rxfx,

    rxfx rxfx Feb 24, 2016 9:54 AM in response to Robert Alexander5
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    Feb 24, 2016 9:54 AM in response to Robert Alexander5

    Oddly, refreshing calendars has never worked for me.

     

    It's mind-boggling to me that this remains an issue. How can Apple not prioritize addressing a bug that make us unable to enter a simple calendar event in one go? This is the most basic requirement of calendar software.

     

    Apple, please pay attention and take action! I've spammed and been spammed with multiple calendar change alerts; lost updates to events before I realized this was happening; and had surprises spoiled when an event reverted to a shared calendar from a private one. That last item was merely sad. Imagine if it had also been something confidential for more important reasons. 

  • by sok777,

    sok777 sok777 Feb 27, 2016 5:55 AM in response to hueyo
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    Feb 27, 2016 5:55 AM in response to hueyo

    Someone in another thread suggested this, and so far it seems to work:

     

    Go to Calendar and open Preferences then General tab (default one).

    at the bottom part where it says 'Default Calendar' just change it from whatever it is to 'Selected Calendar'. this will basically means that any new event you open will automatically be chosen to be the same as the last one you did. However, by doing so, you can now change modify edit or do whatever you want and it'll be saved properly!

     

    Hope this helps!

  • by Myrdinn63,

    Myrdinn63 Myrdinn63 Feb 28, 2016 10:14 AM in response to sok777
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    Feb 28, 2016 10:14 AM in response to sok777

    Hi,

    just tried this one out… No luck: created an event 'Test' (default calendar = same as last one used) > then edited event: changed calendar to another one as desired + changed some other data such as time, reminders,… > saved it >>> for a second or two the edited event is displayed correctly (start time is discretely shown next to the event title) but then during the sync (which can be remarked on top of the calendar window) the 'start time' is removed > double clicking on the event to show the details > all except the changed 'calendar' is retained >>> repeated editing time, reminders but WITHOUT changing the calendar (as it was changed to the desired one) > saved it > ALL OK

    So, each time when an event is edited including a change of calendar, all data except this desired calendar is ignored at subsequent sync.

    You can test it repeating the above and then try a 2nd edit of the event BUT this time change again the calendar the another one > again, all data except the new calendar is ignored.

     

    So what I do on iCal for OS X is working in 2 steps if I want to change the default calendar:

    1. change the calendar to the desired one > then save ('Ready')

    2. change all other data as desired (no change of calendar) > then save

     

    Anyway, this much too long lasting (thank you Apple) misbehavior is of course absolutely unacceptable as it could lead to loss of important RV's, etc.

  • by angelams,

    angelams angelams Mar 2, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Myrdinn63
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    Mar 2, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Myrdinn63

    This is the only way creating events works for me. All other suggestions/fixes revert back to, new event but I appreciate all suggestions. And alerts are still iffy. I've had them sometimes not activate. Or activate and disappear briefly before my ever having clicked to close them. Repeating alerts are also thing of the past. My organizational skills are not the best but without my 7 calendars  and alerts they've become much worse.

     


    Mac-book Air 2013

    Mavericks 10.9.5

    Calendar 7.0

  • by yellowforsythia,

    yellowforsythia yellowforsythia Mar 3, 2016 4:25 PM in response to hueyo
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    Mar 3, 2016 4:25 PM in response to hueyo

    Did you hear any response from Apple hueyo? I remember this issue has been raised almost a year ago and it's still buggy. Unbelievable! Someone said earlier Apple won't fix this problem on old OS... So I upgraded OS all the way to El Capitan 10.11.3 and tested the calendar on each OS if makes any different. Unfortunately the Calendar is still not right. It is a little different problem than old OS tho. When you create new events and enter all your details and choose non-default calendar, it stays. But if you want to edit details on existing calendar (ie: time, note including change calendar) it bounces back to the original calendar you had. If you edit other details without changing calendar it works. Does Apple even read this forum???

  • by JohnCooks2,

    JohnCooks2 JohnCooks2 Mar 9, 2016 7:31 AM in response to hueyo
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    Mar 9, 2016 7:31 AM in response to hueyo

    +1 I had a HUGE conflict in booking customers because of this! Get your "geniuses" together and fix this Apple...

  • by 10thApple,

    10thApple 10thApple Mar 19, 2016 9:57 AM in response to MamaKatie
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    Mar 19, 2016 9:57 AM in response to MamaKatie

    I've had exactly the same issue on both my MacBooks -- Air and RetinaPro -- and it precedes Mavericks.  I've called Apple Care a couple times on this, and they don't recognize the issue from memory, but agree it's real once they try it on their machines. **** frustrating that Apple has thus far refused to update this OSX.  Yearly OS up"grades" are a pain, pain, pain.  Unnecessary, unwelcome and too time consuming to download, install, debug, learn nuances -- and I mean nuances, they are not "features" -- once a year.  For those of us loyal to Apple, but reasonable about how often we up"grade" the OS, it is expected that Apple with it's $130+B in cash to fix such a frustrating, well-known and long-standing flaw in a two-year old OS.

  • by yellowforsythia,

    yellowforsythia yellowforsythia Mar 24, 2016 4:10 AM in response to hueyo
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    Mar 24, 2016 4:10 AM in response to hueyo

    Yay! The latest update OS X 10.11.4 fixed the Calendar issue! I don't know any old OS released the new updates as well.

  • by EminenTone,

    EminenTone EminenTone Mar 24, 2016 10:41 AM in response to hueyo
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    Mar 24, 2016 10:41 AM in response to hueyo

    Thank you kindly this helped me. I created the event in another calendar (i.e.: gmail), the change the calendar to iCloud and it stayed. A bit ridiculous, and windoze-ish, but it works. Apple needs to step up here...

  • by DGMC,

    DGMC DGMC Mar 28, 2016 10:55 AM in response to yellowforsythia
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    Mar 28, 2016 10:55 AM in response to yellowforsythia

    Works for me too, no undoing of changes when you edit in one calendar and change it to another (colour).

    Thanks for that

    Mac mini mid 2011, 10.11.4

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