Calendar macOS Ventura crashes on entering location field contents

Still not fixed with Sonoma. Speechless.

Confirmed that this crasher bug is persisting in macOS Sonoma 14.0 (23A339). Speechless indeed 🤯

14.1.1 hello calendar bug my old friend.

By now, no one will be surprised: macOS 14.2b4 persisting.

14.2 RC persisting. I think Apple will never fix this.

14.4b1 persisting ♾️

14.4 persisting. I meanwhile believe for some weird reasons this is intention.

Happens to me too since the Update to Ventura. But only for my Caldav calenders, not for iCloud and Outlook.

The Caldav backend is Davical.

Syncing location from the backend is fine, the Apple calendar only crashes, if I enter a new location in the frontend.

Same for me. It's been happening for weeks. Frankly all of the Mac apps like Calendar and Contacts suck. They're never updated. And they're obviously low priority for ongoing maintenance. Maybe one day Apple will step up to the plate to improve the quality of basics apps that run on their expensive hardware.

Update with 13.3: Typing 1 or 2 letters shows a list of suggestions. I can pick one and leave the dialog with the location set. HOWEVER typing a 3rd letter Apple Calendar crashes - exactly as before.

Hey Apple, you must be kidding us.

I have an open case with Apple and the answer I got so far is, they won't fix it.

I don't understand such an answer, an App should never crash! Also CalDAV is a supported feature in macOS. I don't get it.

You certainly understand they want to push users into their proprietary icloud universe. Why should they be interested in supporting open standards? Task sync via CalDAV has been broken for ages. Subtasks still don't sync, but tasks syncing at all in macOS Ventura is a major improvement over the previous OSs from Apple's side.

🙄

I always used Windows at work and convinced myself 15 years ago to try Mac at home. I wish I never did. I've always felt like I was giving too much up on the software side. And then you stay with Apple simply because you adapt to it. Now we see this kind of crap where Apple doesn't care about software support. But should we be surprised? Take a look at the latest Microsoft Outlook versus the related Apple apps that haven't been updated in over a decade? Geez, I might try parallels and play around with Windows to see why I'm still using Apple.

After 3 days, the problem returned on my Macbook when entering an event location. I've since tried using a demo of BusyCal which looks like a good calendar app. It does not crash when entering locations and successfully syncs back to Synology calendar, however it does randomly crash while running in the background. Console shows that it crashed without presenting a dialog 4x today. It seems as though Apple has broken iCal sync which is impacting all calendar apps.

Which version of Synology DSM is everyone using. I'm on 6.2.4 Update 7 and am wondering if an update to 7.2 would offer any relief.

We are using DSM 7.2 and Macbooks with Apple Silicon and macmini with Intel cpu... still crashes on all machines. I think, it doesn't matter which Macbook model or Intel/Apple Silicon one is using.

It will be random if it works or not... as Apple always does with problems like this!