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iCal error message "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" but still syncing via mobileme.

here is the screenshot ...... http://gallery.me.com/joyseeker/100217/Screen-20shot-202010-07-15-20at-2011-59-4 5/web.jpg?ver=12791918490001

My problem must have started last week when I did a restore on the iPhone to see if its speed would improve. I noticed this week events added to the iPhone calendar were not updating the Mac and vica versa via Mobileme.

I realised then I had to switch on Mobileme syncing on the iPhone. Bingo syncing works again but now I get this popup error message regularly.

What am I not doing or enabling kind sirs?

MacBook 2Hz core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 15, 2010 4:14 AM

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yendora

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Feb 25, 2011 5:06 AM in response to Joyseeker

I worked with a Mobile Me senior advisor for 2 months, and he finally discovered that this error appears for alarms set more than 8 days in advance, and that the Apple engineers were working on the issue.

I just tried to add an event for 15 days in advance and did NOT get the error message, but I don't know if it's been fixed. I contacted Mobile Me chat, but they weren't familiar with the error.

Does anyone know if it's been fixed?

IvanX

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Mar 17, 2011 2:13 AM in response to yendora

I recently had this same issue for an imported calendar, but it was for ALL alarms (which were all 15 minutes prior, as per BlackBerry default). I found a fix, though it was a sledgehammer solution (I removed all alarms).

I was migrating from a user from Entourage; I enabled its Sync Services to get their calendar to iCal (On My Computer), exported from there, and imported the .ics file to a MobileMe CalDAV calendar. While synchronizing, I got lots of these 403 errors.

My solution was to remove all alarms, which my client didn't need. I opened the .ics file in TextWrangler (a free editor from http://www.barebones.com), choose Find, and entered the following into the Find field: (?s)BEGIN:VALARM.*?END:VALARM
I left the Replace field blank, checked the Grep and Wrap-Around checkboxes, and left the other checkboxes unchecked. Then I clicked Replace All. This swiftly removed all the alarms, and I had no further sync problems.

Apr 4, 2011 3:40 PM in response to Joyseeker

This error commonly occurs on calendars that are synced from Entourage, independent of the alarm's time frame.

Exporting calendars from iCal to an .ics file preserves alarms and will throw 403 error upon import to MobileMe calendar.

This error was reproduced several times and attempts to 'ignore alarms' within iCal settings and upon import were ineffective.

Resolution was achieved by importing offending .ics file to local iCal calendar (On My Mac) and running BusyMac's iCal cleaner to remove all alarms, and all alarms with messages. New .ics file was exported after alarm removal. Import and subsequent upload to MobileMe calendar was successful.

Apr 20, 2011 11:32 PM in response to Joyseeker

I have a client that is trying to upload an .ics file from iCal that has over 3200 events in it.

I have been getting the "The server responded: “HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden ”to operation CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation." message consistently.

I have tried the Text Wrangler fix as above.

The first thing I also tried was the iCal Cleaner from BusyMac, and I removed All Alarms, Alarms with Messages, etc.

Nothing seems to work. I've gone in and looked at the events that are coming up with the write errors, and there is nothing at all in there.

I'm stuck.

alex1963

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Aug 21, 2011 11:39 AM in response to Erik Madsen

Toegang tot 'PERSON' in 'CALENDERNAMEl' in account '.........@me.com' is niet toegestaan.

De server reageerde met:

'403'

op de bewerking 'CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation'.

Same here, after installing Lion I can not make an appointment in a sharen calender from a mobileme familyaccount. Must be a bug !!

Apple please solve this !!

Aug 31, 2011 2:22 PM in response to alex1963

I have the same problem as Alex1963. Since upgrading to Lion, I can't update any shared caledndars from mobileme family accounts - I can't update my wife's calendar, and she can't update mine....

Is there a fix on the way, Apple people?

racemase

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Sep 2, 2011 11:25 AM in response to Tom Fardon

Count me in ;(

This is really annoying because that was the reason why my wife and me subsribed to mobile me. It seems to be an iCal Lion bug, because via web it does work fine ...

Sep 2, 2011 4:46 PM in response to racemase

I've fixed this - delete the cahe files from ~user/library/calendars/ and restart iCal. It all works fine after this fix. Apple short sort this in an update, though!

alex1963

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Sep 4, 2011 1:05 AM in response to Tom Fardon

Sorry, Tom Fardon

It doesn't work for me. So it must be another problem.

Oct 25, 2011 1:53 PM in response to Joyseeker

I started getting this on my work computer about two weeks ago. Thought it would go away, then upgraded my MM accout to icloud for the new iphone upgrade and then my home computer quite syncing also!!! VERY frustrating as my iCal has my life in it. Hopefully APPLE is working on a FIX????

Oct 25, 2011 9:03 PM in response to lisah6625

Lisa and others,

After having to deal with this for multiple different clients who were having trouble after the original MobileMe shift to CalDAV, here's what I discovered worked:

I used BusyCal from busymac.com. You can download the 30 day trial and use it for this.

I exported each calendar (using File / Export - *not* create a calendar archive), and then I went to BusyCal and did File / Import (you may also try dragging and dropping the exported .ics file from your Desktop over to the MobileMe/iCloud calendar, or it may ask if you want to import and create a new calendar. It's been a while so I don't remember).

I did a Calendar Archive export as well, for good measure, but after I exported each calendar as an .ics file, I deleted everything from iCal and made sure the data was completely removed from the cloud before I started the re-import process.

For whatever reason, BusyCal was able to bypass the limitations that iCal had not being able to import certain events.

In addition to this, you can also try iCal Cleaner, one of the utilities from BusyMac's site, as someone mentioned above, but that didn't always work for me.

I found that BusyCal was able to take years of data from one client (about 9 years worth of calendar data) and successfully merge it to the cloud without incident.

Then I was able to have them return to iCal after the syncing was completed (BusyCal actually has a sync icon that will stop spinning when it has successfully uploaded everything).

Once your data has been uploaded successfully, you should not encounter further issues with the CalDAV setup. It works great.

Hope that helps!

Erik

Psi

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Apr 16, 2012 8:41 AM in response to Joyseeker

I cannot create an event at all in ical any more.

"403 error. access to "calendar name" in iCloud not permitted..."

argh

iCal error message "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" but still syncing via mobileme.