Icloud calendar on Mac - Cannot delete or edit a recurring event

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Icloud calendar on Mac - Cannot delete or edit a recurring event

I would like to delete a recurring event on my Icloud calendar on the Mac.

clicking on it (in hopes of editing it or deleting it by clicking "delete") => endless spinning wheel (not beach ball) and "loading event details".

Trying to drag it to another day => "couldn't save changes to [title of event]. Your changes to this event couldn't be saved because it was just updated by another device." I do not know of any other device that could be updating it, unless some very specific and peculiar hacker has attacked this one event of my dull calendar.

iMac Pro

Posted on Jul 14, 2020 11:46 AM

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Answer 1

tygb

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Jul 15, 2020 1:43 AM in response to nwei

Create a new test user account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

See the articles https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202337

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/calendar/icl1018/mac

Right click on first event and delete all .

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nwei Author

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Jul 15, 2020 9:21 AM in response to tygb

I don't understand whether I should use each of your suggestions in turn, or use any of them.

Also are these solutions targeted to iCloud calendar, not ical?

Thank you for your help.

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tygb

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Jul 15, 2020 9:35 AM in response to nwei

See this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204598

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nwei Author

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Jul 14, 2020 11:55 AM in response to nwei

More info: when I try a different browser, I can open the event and then get an error message ""couldn't delete [title of event]. This event couldn't be deleted because of a server error. Please try again." The two options are REPORT (which leads to sending a report to Apple) or OK (which removes the error message and lands me back where I was).

I get the same result when I have closed all programs, shut down the computer and gone home for the weekend, only to find the same problem upon my return.

Other than learning to ignore a repeating event on my calendar, are there good solutions?

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Icloud calendar on Mac - Cannot delete or edit a recurring event

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