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Search in iCal in 10.5.2 Not Working?

I upgraded to 10.5.2 this week and was posting a future event in iCal (several years out) and wanted to see if it posted correctly. So, I clicked in the search field in the upper right corner of the window and typed in the text I entered for the event. The columnar listing area appeared at the bottom of the window, but displayed no contents. I then manually went to the future date and found the event just fine.

In Tiger when I entered text in the search field, the columnar area at the bottom of the screen actually listed the results of my search, but I can get no results in Leopard.

I searched this forum for comments on this issue and found a similar thread from last fall, but none of the suggestions made at that time work for me in 10.5.2.

Can anyone here confirm that iCal is not displaying search results for them? I'd like to know if it's my system, or the application itself.

I find it's working on my upgraded G5 iMac, but not on this new Intel iMac.

Thanks for listening...

2.8GHz 24" iMac w/4GB RAM/750GB HD, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Feb 16, 2008 2:12 PM

23 replies

Aug 5, 2008 4:37 AM in response to Easyofff

Thanks! This solution helped me to. Also fixed the no response I was getting when I clicked on the "Today" button.

ERK255

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Aug 5, 2008 4:57 AM in response to Dave Marsh

I found a solution on another forum that worked for me. It involves deleting iCal's Index files so they can be rebuilt. Once I did it, I was able to search again in iCal. Here's how to do it.

First, quit iCal if it is running. Then, from the Terminal, run the following commands:

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/iCal/Sources
$ rm */Index

When you launch iCal, it will automatically rebuild the Index for each calendar. The forum post I found gave credit for this solution to Bob Burger who, it said, posted it on the Apple Support Discussion site (but I couldn't find it here).

Rob Kemp

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Aug 11, 2008 12:16 PM in response to Easyofff

Great Tip Easyoff....thanks for sharing

Nigel W

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Aug 13, 2008 11:34 AM in response to Easyofff

Nice! This worked for me too. Thanks for the tip.

Sep 1, 2008 5:19 AM in response to ERK255

If it hasn't reindexed with the tip above (it didn't for me), you'll need to run this in Terminal as well:

mdimport ~/Library/Calendars

Then open iCal and see how it goes...

Nov 14, 2008 10:33 AM in response to ivanovitch

I can confirm that, having tried every other solution here (which all failed) the mdimport solution finally worked. Thank you!

Dec 30, 2008 6:03 PM in response to Dave Marsh

My iCal search didn't work after migration to a new Mac. For me deleting my Users com.apple.ical.plist file fixed the problem.

hellyski

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Mar 3, 2009 4:48 PM in response to ivanovitch

This worked for me! Thanks

Search in iCal in 10.5.2 Not Working?