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Q: iCal Stuck in Unusable State after Changing Google Account Password

Hello,

I use iCal and Google Calendar using the WebDAV support for syncing the two. When I started using iCal, I set up my Google Calendar account in iCal's preferences, and all was hunky-dory.

Recently, I changed the password to my google account. As expected, the next time I started iCal, it was unable to connect because it did not have the correct password stored. This is where the problems begin.

Whenever iCal is opened, it gets stuck in a loop with two display dialogs. The first reads.

"The server responded with an error.
The server did not recognize your user name or password for account "<myaccount@gmail.com>." Make sure you enter them correctly."
And gives me two options to "Go Offline" or "Revert to Server"

If I choose "Go Offline" from this dialog, I am simply presented again with the same dialog with the same options.

If I choose "Revert to Server" I am presented with a second dialog that reads:

"The server responded with an error.
The server did not recognize your user name or password for account "<myaccount@gmail.com>." Make sure you enter them correctly."
And only gives me the option to choose "OK".

After clicking OK, I am returned to the first dialog box.


Unfortunately, these dialogs lock me out of the preferences dialog for iCal where I could change the account password.


Any help in either accessing the preferences, editing the password from outside of iCal, or simply resetting all application data for iCal so that I could resync all my calendars from the server would be great.

Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 9:20 AM

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  • by suslaw,

    suslaw suslaw Aug 19, 2014 2:35 PM in response to ngpisias
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    Aug 19, 2014 2:35 PM in response to ngpisias

    That was easy . Thank you so much

  • by terramadre,

    terramadre terramadre Sep 28, 2014 11:10 AM in response to ngpisias
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    Sep 28, 2014 11:10 AM in response to ngpisias

    Worked like a charm.  So simple yet effective!  Thank you.

  • by Ross Heitkamp,

    Ross Heitkamp Ross Heitkamp Nov 12, 2014 6:30 PM in response to martinsbm
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    Nov 12, 2014 6:30 PM in response to martinsbm

    I just locked my keychain, so iCal couldn't access it.  A dialog pops up asking for access - leave it open.  I got two error messages, but not the third one that seems to crash things.  At this point I was able to get into preferences and make changes - for me, I just deleted the CalDAV entry causing the problem so that I could re-enter it properly.  Once that was deleted, I canceled the keychain access request and all was well and I could proceed with re-adding the CalDAV calendar.

  • by gemscribe,

    gemscribe gemscribe Dec 20, 2014 8:04 PM in response to malbase
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    Dec 20, 2014 8:04 PM in response to malbase

    Thank you malbase, happy to find your post.

    Easy fix for a different situation: changed my iCloud password & use iCal to sync calendars, so received iCal error message.

    Your steps worked a charm!

  • by AnneBfromNY,

    AnneBfromNY AnneBfromNY May 18, 2016 10:16 PM in response to ProverbialSun
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    May 18, 2016 10:16 PM in response to ProverbialSun

    Things seem to have changed with El Capitan.  I changed my google password.  I'm not getting an error message from ical, but it is not updating to/from the google account.  When I go into the account and also into the keychain, it does not seem to have an option for changing the password in either place.

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