Mysterious appearance of new untitled calendars

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Mysterious appearance of new untitled calendars

In the past week I've had three new, empty calendars appear in the calendars menu of iCal. The pattern seems to be a new one appears the for 3 days or so it appears and disappears like a Christmas tree light then remains present after that. I've tried to delete these rogue calendars but the always come back. If the just sat there and were just clutter, I would bother with them. But when the flashing one does appear, anything you enter in that few moments is recorded on that calendar but then disappears after a few cycles of the flashing. I'm wondering if it's a sync'ing problem but have no evidence of such blame.

Hope someone has a clue on this!

Posted on Jun 16, 2005 4:13 PM

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Jerry Watson1

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Sep 20, 2005 6:15 AM in response to Jerry Watson1

I seem to have solved my Untitled Calendars problem by:
1. Laboriously deleting the dozens that had appeared.
2. Deleting the iCal preferences (in your /Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist)
3. Restarting my Mac
4. Resetting the Calendar on my .Mac account with the Calendar on my Mac.
All this had to be done as quickly as possible or the Untitled Calendars would begin multiplying again every five minutes or so.

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Aug 25, 2005 8:32 AM in response to dcleesfo

You all might want to try deleting the iCal preferences (in your /Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist)

I'll bet it will solve at least a couple of your problems, then narrowing down the others, which all sound slightly different.

Start with that then come back, perhaps one problem per thread.

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smiff

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Jun 17, 2005 8:54 AM in response to dcleesfo

I have the same problem, they always appear after a Sync operation so I assumed I was asking New Events on my Palm to be put into an 'untitled' calendar. But no, iSync clearly points to my Home calendar.

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odysseus

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Aug 25, 2005 6:36 AM in response to dcleesfo

I have one untitled calendar that consistently reappears after an iSync with my Treo 650. Must be a bug.

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Sep 9, 2005 7:35 PM in response to Jerry Watson1

Are you using iSync? This seems to be the source of problems sometimes. See this thread: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b6ae63

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a.one

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Jun 18, 2005 3:57 AM in response to dcleesfo

Similar. Definitely shouldn't be my Palm sync as new events from Palm are set to be sent to a specific calendar (which they are) - and the new and unwanted "untitled" calendar contains no events ... it just keeps appearing.

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Aug 15, 2005 7:37 AM in response to dcleesfo

I have the same problem. Using Tiger and dot mac to sync home and office G4 and G5.

More than 100 "Untitled" calendars have magically appeared. Any suggestions or easy removal and prevention???

--DS

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Aug 25, 2005 4:25 AM in response to dcleesfo

For about five days, I face the same problem. Not only that iCal quits unexpectedly (usually after I manipulate something, but it can shut down just like this as well), every time I reopen it, I find more unnamed and empty calendars in the list window. That all started after upgrading to os 10.4.2. Yesterday I made a clean install of the system. Yet the problem stays. Any ideas?

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Aug 29, 2005 2:56 PM in response to odysseus

the one untitled calender after syncing is ok. it contains some no-value-information. at least, it remains one. my problem is, that after restarting iCal it creates dozens of totally empty calenders which do not carry even the name "untitled".
erasing the preference-files did not help. deactivating all other programs linked to iCal did not help. 2 ⚠ clean reinstalls did not help. it must be a real bug which appears in certain circumstances (for on my G5 no problem).

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Sep 9, 2005 2:25 PM in response to Jerry Watson1

This is a followup to with recent post. All of the untitled calendars that keep multiplying have the "Subscribed" symble to the right of each. Any idea on how I can get rid of these calendars. There are so many of them and I cannot delete them fast enought, they are dragging my iCal program to a crawl.

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Aug 28, 2005 9:29 PM in response to dcleesfo

I have the same issue with a Treo 650. Is your issue related to a Palm sync?

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odysseus

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Aug 28, 2005 9:31 PM in response to Peter Morgan5

Yes, if you're responding to my post.

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Answer 13

Sep 2, 2005 4:16 PM in response to Dancin_Brook

thank you soooo much. this is exactly what stopped ical from producing 10 calendars every 20 seconds.

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Sep 9, 2005 1:50 PM in response to Dancin_Brook

I deleted the preference "com.apple.iCal.plist" and it worked for a day but now tthey repeating untitled folders are growing like wildfire. Any more suggestions?

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Sep 12, 2005 9:01 AM in response to Dancin_Brook

This link seems to be related to Safari. Do you have another link for the iCAl untitled calendar problem?

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