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Invitations end up in wrong calendar

Hi,

I use iCal with several different calendar accounts. One is the Exchange account I have to use at work. Another is a personal Google Calendar account.

This works perfectly most of the time: my work appointments sit neatly in the Exchange account, my personal appointments easily recognizable by a different color in the Google account. But. Somehow some invitations, although sent to my professional Exchange account, end up in my personal Google Calendar account. Impossible to drag and drop to my work calendar, and what's very frustrating: the only way to get these invitations out of the personal account is by declining the invitation. Resulting in all of the work-related invitees getting a decline message from my personal account. Very weird for them, because they get this message from an account that was not included in the original invitation. And very weird for me because I want to keep my professional life and personal life somewhat separate.

Any ideas as to why this happens and perhaps suggestions on how to fix?

Cheers,
Niels

Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 7, 2011 2:23 AM

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MalpaG3

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51 points

Oct 12, 2015 10:42 AM in response to MalpaG3

Update:

I found a workaround, but it's not "ideal". I exported my Exchange calendar using Calendar>File>Export. I then went to Settings>Accounts>Exchange and unchecked the Calendar box. I enabled my iCloud Work account (I have two, "Work" and "Personal", and I pretty much only had the "Work" one to keep backups of my work phone), and enabled the Calendar from iCloud Work account. I went back to the Calendar app, and imported the backup of the Exchange calendar to iCloud Work. Then I went back to Apple Mail to find the meeting invitation (.ics file) that was giving me so much trouble before, and I double-clicked it and it went right to my iCloud Work calendar.

So, the workaround is basically...don't use Exchange? I don't think this will cause any issues with my current employer and the way we use Exchange here, but I'm getting with our IT manager to review it. The iCloud Work account is set up using my Exchange email address anyway, so maybe that makes a difference?

Nov 8, 2016 1:12 PM in response to njah

I don't use the Tasks calendar, so I tried renaming it (to Tasks2) and now when adding events by clicking on invites in mail it get's added to the correct (default) calendar.

Best regards,

Jacob

Invitations end up in wrong calendar