iCal Just Went Nuts

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iCal Just Went Nuts

Put the iPhone in the dock and it auto-synced and now my iCal has dozens events from 10 years ago appearing on every single day, repeating every day. Literally 23 items from 1999 or so are now on every page of my Calendar.

How the heck can I undo this? No I don't use Time Machine.

BTW, I just checked and the iCal on the iPhone is correct., the Mobile Me version is about 1 month out of date.

How do I get the iPhone version to overwrite the other two?

Thanks!

Message was edited by: musicandlight

G5 2GHz DP, 6GB RAM, Radeon X800XT, Mac OS X (10.5.6), An Original Mac User Since 1984

Posted on Apr 24, 2009 12:09 PM

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musicandlight Author

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Apr 24, 2009 3:21 PM in response to musicandlight

Basically I just went through the whole thing and deleted the 46 events which on their own decided to repeat every day forever over the past decade.

I think I cleared it up. But sheesh. I'm gonna back up the calendars more often.

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musicandlight Author

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Apr 30, 2009 8:02 AM in response to musicandlight

Soon after this my G5 started getting SBBOD freeze up and then restart and run again for only a few minute before repeating this until finally it would simply shut down on its own after seemingly staring up correctly.

I installed Leopard on another drive and ran Disk Utility on my main system drive and it failed.

So I went to the 5th Ave Apple store about 10PM the other night and bought TechTool Pro 5.

Like freakin magic. Not only did it report no bad blocks or other anomalies it was able to repair the permissions which had been locking things up that Disk Utility could not handle.

Best $99 I could have spent!

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May 3, 2009 1:22 PM in response to musicandlight

Yesterday I had the exact same thing happen. Opened iCal on my laptop, and saw endless repeating events from 1996 - through....whatever. I'm not sure exactly how to fix this because the program seems really slow and unresponsive, too. I'm afraid it's going to lock up any second.

How did you resolve the problem, exactly?

Thanks

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