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No longer can publish iCal calendar as a viewable webpage?

My wife has been publishing her business iCal calendar as a viewable webpage for many years. This feature is no longer working.

One can "publish" and send the email advertising the calendar webpage URL, but the link to mobile me is broken - the page will not load and ultimately times out and redirects to an Apple page saying that "We're sorry, your .Mac calendar is temporarily unavailable."

How do we share our calendars with others without them having to subscribe thru a calendar app?

This is very disappointing - calendar publishing was the whole reason my wife purchased mobileme.

iPhone 4, White MB, iMac G4, iBook G3, Grape iMac, Mac 6100, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Dec 13, 2010 7:48 AM

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Jan 18, 2011 12:03 PM in response to Perry Lehman

Don't use the "sharing" url provided by the new iCal. Use the old "publish" url provided my previous iCal versions. For instance, here's the url for my professional calendar:

http://ical.mac.com/dwmoore/Donald%20W.%20Moore%20CG

The "dwmoore" is the mobileme userid. The "Donald%20W.%20Moore%20CG" is the calendar name.

But also pay attention to advice from other posters about sharing the calendar and selecting "Change Location" from the calendar contextual menu. You need to do that too.

Feb 24, 2011 5:02 AM in response to Perry Lehman

Hi everyone. Here is my work around which may be similar to what others are doing. Before the upgrade I published my calendar as a group because I have one calendar for home, one for work, etc. So I used to have all of my calendars in a group and it was published (not shared). Now what I've done is created a group under "On My Mac." I've exported each calendar under my xxxxx@me.com section and imported into my group. I've published the group and it can be viewed on the web just like before. From here on out, I will create 2 of the same event each time, one for my mobileme section and one for my "on my mac" group section. A bit of a pain but at least I can still utilize the publish feature. It terms of my iCal view, I simply keep my group unchecked so I don't have to look at 2 of the same event each day. I hope this helps.

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Feb 28, 2011 5:38 PM in response to dontbestupid

This indeed seemed to work. How it found the proper server is beyond me, since it could not be specified when telling iCal to use the private server. (Probably a preference from earlier.)

I still ended up downgrading, because floating events all had their times shifted. Even so, it's good to know that there is a possibility for publishing, because I need it for internal web-based calendars.

Thanks for the tip.

Jul 14, 2011 1:36 PM in response to Alexander_Wolff

OK, sometimes I have to read things a few times to get what they say. I have been searching all over google to find the answer to this very issue. And, while there are some kludgy fixes suggested here, I think that Alexander Wolff has it exactly right.


Didn't even realize that they have the calendars either shared with my mobileme account or just stored locally. Perfect solution is to create a local calendar and then you can "publish" exactly as you did before.

No longer can publish iCal calendar as a viewable webpage?

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