"Server responded with an error" for Google calendars on Mac

Howdy,

Apparently, this is a wider issue, affecting many folks, on various versions of macOS.

I have yet to hear back from Google WorkSpace support's escalation regarding this issue.

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FYI: I was first alerted to this issue with macOS Apple Calendar application error messages, and indeed, seeing the same error messages :

"Access to account “Google” is not permitted.

The server responded

“403”

to operation CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation.

"

As I'm also an IT Consultant, with a paid for Google WorkSpace account, with support, I've registered this as a trouble ticket, and hope to have it escalated for resolution.

FYI: I was also able to reproduce this myself, directly, on 2 computers, with 2 different macOS versions, Mojave & Catalina (10.14 & 10.15), on BRAND NEW USER ACCOUNTS, created from scratch (ie: Thus, THERE IS ZERO CACHED DATA, nor account setup of any kind, so, it's all new), entered in my professional Google WorkSpace credentials, and the Apple Calendar application similarly fails to show ANY data at all, nor any error messages.

Hopefully Google WorkSpace support can escalate this issue, and get some attention on it, towards getting this issue resolved, as it appears to be a wide spread issue affecting many users on many different computers and various operating systems.

So, just to be clear, this is GOOGLE server side issues, and not client side, nor cache cleaning, none of which will work.

Thanks,

Daniel

Please also see these links/threads:

https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/98473879?hl=en#

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252488972?page=1

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I found a solution on line, try this:

Click the Contacts icon (Brown/Yellow Book) in the side bar

Select menu item "contacts"

Select "preferences", under "General" untick "Show contacts SIRI found un apps"

it worked for me, the problem appears to be linked to SIRI. Best of luck.

My apologies, I indicated a fix for another problem I was working and not the Calendar issue. With regard to the Calendar issue I found clicking the Calendar menu and then View and then ensuring that the "Show All-Day Events" option is ticked, mine was not, it appears to have been unticked during the last software upgrade. Hope this helps.

Somehow I fixed this and I'm not sure how, but I did open all the different calendars in the left-hand side, one-by-one, and unticked contacts and Australian holidays, etc. Everything that wasn't the name of the calendar, I turned off. Maybe that will work for some?

@PeterR

Your effort it appreciated but I suggest you refrain from offering fixes to others in the future, to ensure out sanity.

thank you.

macOS Big Sur v11.2.1

Calendar v11.0 (2811.3.1)

In Calendar App

Preferences > Advance > "Turn on timezone support"

Disabling this feature didn't completely fix the issue but at least the calendar synced with Google.

I have got the exact same problem. In my case it seems related only to the gmail hosted accounts. I've cleared the calendar cache, switched off the calendar synch and waited for it to clear but, so far, to no avail.

I am experiencing this same problem as well. I tried deleting my calendar cache as was suggested by other web searches, but this appears to be affecting all of my Google Calendars simultaneously. I disabled all of them. I tried adding in one at a time to see if there was one calendar with a bad entry, but whichever calendar I add I experience this same error message. Regrettably, by deleting my calendar cache now some of my Google Calendars refuse to load at all so I really hope this gets patched quickly.

Specific to Mac OS as everything is continuing to work perfectly on my iPhone.

I see one user indicated that something could be done via Contacts to resolve this, but I was unable to follow the directions as listed. It goes give me hope that there is something that we can do to fix this while we wait for Apple to officially resolve but I have SIRI completely disabled on my Mac and I also did try unchecking the box as indicated but so far no luck.

I am experiencing this issue on Mac 10.15.7 and was considering upgrading to Big Sui to resolve but it appears from the messages of others with Big Sur that they are experiencing the same problem so I guess upgrading OS will not resolve this either.

The same issue is occurring for me on MacBook Pro 2020 running BigSur 11.2.1.

Four Google email accounts are now not behaving nicely after working seamlessly for years. Going to Contacts/Preferences, to untick "Show contacts SIRI found in apps" was unsuccessful because that option is not there for me.

I have had this exact issues for so many years. I have tried over and over and over to do many things after tons of research. Some things help for a short period of time but then it comes back. I dont understand how so many people can have this issue and there is never a fix. This should not be this difficult. I keep thinking it will correct itself but after years I guess not!

I also have the same problem and in addition cannot enter any full day events in my calendar, they have to be time bound.

Same issue for me, exclusively my gmail accounts on my MacBook Pro started after Big Sur upgrade.

Same here, only gmail accounts are affected. Obviously a lot of people have this issue, not sure why Apple is ignoring it ...

I have dat issue as well and it keeps on messing up my calendar by moving and deleting events for no reason!