Hans Eklundh

Q: iCal picks wrong calendar for invites - how do I change that?

When ever I am recieving a meeting invitation by mail it goes into the wrong calendar. I have several personal calendars in iCal, some subscriptions and we have a common shared meeting calendar for the company.

 

My personal invites through mail always goes into our common meeting calendar. I have found no settings to change that. Once the invitation is in iCal, I can't change calendar, they are all dimmed, nor can I answer the invitation. Nor does these invitations sync to my iPhone, iPad or Mobile Me.

 

Has anyone experienced this problem and found a sollution?

Posted on Apr 18, 2011 1:40 AM

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 13, 2015 3:59 PM in response to dinofromvancouver
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    Apr 13, 2015 3:59 PM in response to dinofromvancouver

    You have to pick a default, 'selected calendar' is one of the choices, so pick that.

  • by BM22222,

    BM22222 BM22222 Apr 29, 2015 4:41 AM in response to carsten0293847
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    Apr 29, 2015 4:41 AM in response to carsten0293847

    Hi I have similar problem.

    When I get invitations they go in the default calendar. But for one person who sends me invitations they go in another Ical calendar and I see it imports and does not stay. It use to be that he was going in the default calendar, but no longer and can not understand why

    How can I put it in the default calendar .

     

    Kind regards

  • by cadstypesh,

    cadstypesh cadstypesh Jul 8, 2015 8:02 PM in response to François Mottaz
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    Jul 8, 2015 8:02 PM in response to François Mottaz

    Thank you so much for this post, it helped A LOT!!

  • by munnymun,

    munnymun munnymun Nov 4, 2015 10:13 AM in response to cadstypesh
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    Nov 4, 2015 10:13 AM in response to cadstypesh

    Not sure if this will help.

    I opened the .ics file in textEdit. Saw a line that said "METHOD:REQUEST". Changed it to METHOD:PUBLISH

    Saved and ran that .ics file again and now I can add to the Exchange account I have in iCal.

  • by Tumum,Helpful

    Tumum Tumum Nov 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to Hans Eklundh
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    Nov 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to Hans Eklundh

    I have the same problem.
    For me the best solution would be the following:
    If I open a ics attachment from Apple Mail, Calendar should ask me what calendar account to use. In addition, Calendar should allow me to change the calendar account later on.

  • by ppenguin,

    ppenguin ppenguin Aug 8, 2016 11:22 AM in response to munnymun
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    Aug 8, 2016 11:22 AM in response to munnymun

    This is genius!

    The MOO described in Tumum's post (i.e. always ask to add to which calendar unless user-chosen default settings specify otherwise) is the only sensible way. None of the other recipes worked for me, probably because I only have (about 5) linked google calendars (all in the same google account) and don't use iCloud. The default setting and the fact that it can't be changed is imho utterly ********. And that it has taken Apple about 4 years to not get fixed or mentioned in anyway.... well....

     

    I will look into this to find a way to override the default handler (that one CAN be chosen) with some automator script that automatically replaces REQUEST to PUBLISH and then launches Calendar with the modified ics file. This can't be too hard I hope. (I'm versed in Linux scripting but not in Apple automation, hope I manage to get it done).

     

    Cheers

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