Google calendar items not displaying in Calendar on Mac but do show up one iPhone and Apple Watch

This exact same problem has happened to me, just today. Everything is gone from my work account Google calendars on Mac Calendar, but it's still fine on iPhone.

If I create an event in Mac Calendar, it will sync up and appear on my iPhone. The reverse does not work. The Google Mail account still works fine in Mac Mail.

I've tried:

• rebooting
• disabling and re-enabling the Google calendar (when I do this, a new event I added since the vanishing disappears and then reappears, but none of the former calendar entries are there)
• setting it to Manual Refresh and refreshing manually (multiple times)

I really hope someone resolves this soon.

Tried various solutions:

• delete google internet account and re-add
• uncheck calendar of google account in preferences > internet accounts
• delete contents of library > calendar
• recheck calendar of google account in preferences > internet accounts
• launch mac calendar, wait for it to populate

Bottom line, the google account is no longer showing in mac calendar

I found a really easy solution: BusyCal

I launched it, granted permissions and everything synced up perfectly

Meanwhile...calendar on mac is sitting there doing nothing to find and sync the google account

And yet iOS calendar is working fine on my iPhone and iPad

I used to use BusyCal. Nice to have it back.

Phil's method worked for me, I'll just detail what happened in case it helps pinpoint the issue.

1. I removed the Google Account, rebooted and re-added it. (All my email etc came back very quickly for anyone nervous about doing this).
2. The Google Account and its calendars (it has several, some are team ones as it's a work account) appeared - but each account was duplicated three times (so triplicated!), likewise I had triplicate entries in my calendar.
3. I deselected/unchecked two of them so just one entry was visible
4. A short while later, all those entries disappeared
5. I unchecked the "invisible" calendar. I re-checked one of the others, and its (still visible) entries appeared
6. A short while after the duplicate/triplicate calendars disappeared, leaving just one, which currently has all the entries in it. It has been a couple of hours now without further disappearance so fingers crossed. I'll post back if this changes.

Hi Everyone, I found the way to fix it.

1. Go to system preferences
2. Click on Internet Accounts
3. Select your google account
4. Remove it
5. Add it again

=> all back to normal.

Best,

Phil

I had a similar problem and could see that Calendar was opening multiple windows on my Macbook. When I closed all the windows with no calendar entries I finally got to see my calendar with all the entries in full (Google etc.). Unfortunately each time I opened Calendars the multiple windows reappeared obscuring the window with all the entries.

I solved the 'multiple window opening problem' by right clicking the calendar icon in the tray and selecting Show All windows. I then closed Calendars. Now when I open Calendars all I see is what I want to see, that is, all my Calendar entries from all sources (Google etc.)!

i have the same problem since yesterday and your tips do not help. :(

i tried restarting and disabling/enabling everything and deleting the account and in the end the google calendars are listed in the left column correctly but the events dont show up in the calendar.

well, i did it a couple of times (removed and re-added). all the events show up for a while, then certain calendar disappear again..

looks like there is a huge issues between calendar and google since so many people are experiencing the same issues.

@sueinor

yes and no. re-adding gmail account does pull back all the events. however, they will disappear soon enough. i did it TWICE and events still disappear. this clearly is an issue with Apple.

feel free to come back and update your posting.

this issue totally ruined my day today. my 3 year old son asked "dad, why are you so mad at your computer?".

i found a workaround, which might also point to the problem, which someone more computer savvy than myself can figure out...

i created second user, and in ical subscribed to my google calendar. seems to be stable there.

no amount of trashing preferences, deleting cals, or re-synching has fixed the issue on my main user's calendar.

Howdy,

Apparently this is a wider spread issue, affecting many users, for at least 24-48 hours (8/22/19 at about 8pm PST currently), apparently ONLY on Macintosh (ie: iOS devices and web browsers are all apparently OK).

This is affecting multiple folks, in multiple locations, across multiple different networks, with multiple Mac OS versions.

I've personally opened a real trouble ticket with Google G Suite tech support, but they currently have yet to make any public posting regarding this issue.

I've just posted about this via Twitter for what that's worth, folks should be aware and not attempt client side fixes that don't really work, nor have IT folks un-aware of this apparently wide-spread issue.

You can delete and re-add the account, and perhaps purge the folder, but the problem seems to just re-occur, as it's not on the client side that the issue resides, so, no client side fix will be likely to work more then temporarily.

https://twitter.com/MacMindTweets/status/1164736152256933888?s=20

Cheers,

Daniel Feldman

MacMind

FYI:

You may wish to also see Google users posted reports of the same issue and such :

https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/12612472?hl=en

and

https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/12579358?hl=en

Howdy,

I think that when they are referring to the library/calendars, they mean to say, on the USERS's library folder, sometimes written as ~/library.

*** Warning ***

YOU probably should not delete items from your calendar folder, this could be very very bad!!

*** Warning ***

To be really clear, this may not be a safe thing to do, you probably don't want to delete calendar data that may contain other calendars, or otherwise not be safe to do for various reasons... not the least of which is that it may not really fix anything anyways, and may also make things worse for you.

So, having said all that:

Well, one more time:

Nor may it even be fix the issue, as I'm not sure if this is actually working for folks more then temporarily, as some have reported that temporarily, unchecking the 'internet accounts' or deleting the 'internet accounts' for your google calendars, TEMPORARILY, only, seems to show your data, then, it disappears again, and it fail too.

So, if you want to understand what perhaps was meant for your understanding, and knowing that you probably should NOT do this, nor will it be likely to help fix anything, and it may very well make things worse or cause other problems, and you've backed up all your data also of course, and are sure it's a good backup you can safely recover files and data from, and are willing to take risks on non-recommended actions:

Well...

Then...

I think, what they meant was :

folder path:

hard disk drive (Macintosh HD or whatever it's named)/Users/YOURuserNAMEhere/Library/Calendars

However, sometimes the 'user' library folder is hidden in the finder, and you have to specifically jump to it, or reveal it, either with:

in finder, holding down the option key, click on 'go menu', select 'library' that now appears

or

in finder, go to your user home folder : Macintosh HD/Users/UserNameHere/

then, click on view menu, select 'show view options' , then check box for 'show library folder'.

Then, inside your USER's library folder, you can see the 'calendars' folder, but I'd really caution most folks against deleting all the data in there, as it may cause you problems.

As this is suddenly happening for many different folks, on many different Macintosh computers, it seems more likely the issue has nothing to do with any of this, but rather, Google perhaps made a change, and now the data won't sync with Apple's Calendar.app and there is probably nothing we can do other than report the issue to Google and wait for the issue to be fixed hopefully.

In the meantime, use a web browser, go to 'calendars.google.com', login with your Google account, and use your calendar that way for now, or like someone else suggested, BusyCal, or use your iPhone, iPad, or other devices and/or web browsers until this issue gets fixed for everyone.

Cheers,

Daniel

Hi Richard, thank you for your advice. I can't seem to locate the "Library" folder. I used the search engine and it gives me different results, but none containing "/Calendars/".

FYI, I just upgraded to Mojave. Thank you.

So far the events have remained...but I think I will look into BusyCal just in case. At some point Apple needs to fix the issue. Since Google still syncs with my iOS devices, it has to be a problem with the Mac software.