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

Today, suddenly, almost all of the my Google calendar events disappeared from my Calendar app on my MacBook Pro. A few that do show up were put there by e-mail requests for hotel bookings. All the others don't appear. The normal Calendar button is there and checked, and when I uncheck it the hotel bookings go away. They come back once it is checked again. All the information is still there when I go to Google Calendar or on my iPhone calendar and Apple Watch Calendar. They just don't show up on the Calendar on my laptop. All of my other calendars (Outllook, iCloud) still show up. I tried quitting Calendar and even rebooting, but the problem remains. Any ideas?

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Posted on Aug 21, 2019 11:03 AM

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Richard Gronostajski Author

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Posted on Aug 22, 2019 11:13 AM

I went to Apple support with this issue and it took some time, but they solved it. Essentially, they had me go to the accounts window in Internet Accounts and turn off all of my Calendars. Then we went to Library/Calendars/ and had me delete everything inside of that folder, put it in the trash and empty the trash. Then I went back to Internet Accounts, started up all of my Calendars again by checking Calendars in all of my accounts, and in a few minutes all of my calendars came back from the internet and repopulated. It is always dangerous to delete system files but I had a very crammed /Library/Calendars folder. If you're worried you could copy all the files to a flash drive before deleting them from your machine, just in case you want to use any of them. They, or something like them, are recreated once you start your Calendars. I take no responsibility for any incidental damage that might occur from trying this, just saying what worked for me. Rich

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Aug 22, 2019 12:01 PM in response to Richard Gronostajski

Same here. Was on the phone with Apple Support for quite some time but they did the same and it worked. Good luck to all.

ray

sueinor

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Aug 22, 2019 5:39 PM in response to p.h.i.l

Thank you--I've been pulling my hair out all day, and your solution worked!

Aug 22, 2019 8:21 PM in response to billyhowards

The same think happened in my case. This is what convinced Apple support that deleting my files would work.

Aug 22, 2019 10:30 PM in response to Richard Gronostajski

Hi, i have the same issue. When you say you are deleting all the files in the calendar folder. You just mean the calendar cache files or everything.

Thanks for your answer.

Nicolas

Aug 22, 2019 11:01 PM in response to Richard Gronostajski

interesting! but i have no library/calendars folder. where do i find it? i cant find anything calendar in my library or system/library folders.

Aug 23, 2019 12:09 AM in response to rikwild

https://wilkinsit.ca/mac-osx/clear-calendar-cache-mac-os/

Aug 23, 2019 7:33 AM in response to rikwild

It should be under your Go menu in the finder. It is actually /Users/yourname/Library/Calendars.

rjadhav

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Aug 23, 2019 7:52 AM in response to Richard Gronostajski

Spoke too soon, my calendars have disappeared again. Like Richard, I don't want to try deleted the calendar cache files everyday as this isn't a fix. :(

Aug 23, 2019 8:13 AM in response to p.h.i.l

this did not work for me, as apple support had direct me to do. they referred me to g-suite support.

Aug 23, 2019 11:33 AM in response to morisz

Not solved for me in Buffalo, NY. Still no Google calendar in my Mac Calendar. Rich

Eric Lane

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Aug 22, 2019 5:00 PM in response to thestartpfarm

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.

Aug 23, 2019 7:12 AM in response to rikwild

From the finder look in the "Go" menu and Library should be there. It is there on my Mac with Mojave. If not try holding down the option or control key when you click on it and see if it appears. It may be hidden. Rich

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