Stop iCal for good

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Stop iCal for good

iCal keeps reminding me of events from the past. I click them away each time but the reminders reappear every time i start my iMac. Since i do not want to manage my calendar on my iMac, that's what i have my iPhone for, i threw iCal to the Wastebin. It does not show in the dock now, ther is a question sign where it used to be, but the reiminders keep appearing. It relly unnerves me and all i want is KILL iCal for oence and all. How can i achieve that?

Any advice is really appreciated

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), iCal

Posted on May 24, 2011 1:38 PM

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Roger Wilmut1

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May 24, 2011 3:13 PM in response to rudolf_stans

You should never delete built-in programs like that - they are tied into the System and you could make your Mac unstable. The iCal application also has background process running and the calendars are stored in your Library, so alarms and notifications (which don't depend on iCal running anyway) will continue.

You should restore iCal - you will probably need to download Pacifist to recover it from the install disk - before attempting to deal with this situation.

You can delete the offending events, but if your iCal is being synced to your iPhone they will be removed from there as well, which may or may not be what you want. If you want to remove events from iCal but retain them on the iPhone you will have to stop syncing it. Of course if it's not syncing but is being used independently you can delete anything you like in iCal.

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rudolf_stans Author

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Jun 5, 2011 2:41 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hi Roger

Thank's for your advice, it was helpful to a certain degree. Meanwhile i've restored iCal form my TimeCapsule an i chose the earliest possible Date which was the Date of Purchase, hoping the annoying Event would be away also.

Well, i was wrong. Just so you understand how i use the calendar on my iPhone. The only Computer i synchronise Calendar Events ans Contacts with is the Computer in my Office. I synchronise with Microsofts ExchangeServer since my Office IT (Public Service) operates on Microsoft.

On my iMac i use Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 with Outlook for my E-Mail-traffic. I suspect the two ⚠ annoying Events, which by the way are the only events on iCal and Outlook, have been entered by an E-Mail by "Accident", since they were entered in my Outlook-Calender as well. There i simply deleted them and that was that.

But with that f*** iCal it's a whole diffrent story. If i delete the events and even the calendars the simply reappear a short while later and the iCal-Alert pops up with every Start of the System an in regular intervalls while it's running. I've deleted the file "com.apple.iCal.plist" several times already but this does'nt help.

If i cannot delete iCal, how can i at least put it to rest permanently? Do you hav any idea which files have to be deleted to stop iCal from running in the Background since it's absolutely useless for me?

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tomcuzz

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Jan 24, 2012 4:53 AM in response to rudolf_stans

Hi there

I think that i have had the same problem as i was using ical (i prefer it to outlook for mac) and after i started playing around with an active directory my ical event reminders wouldnt stop reminding me even after dismissing them, anyway

The way that i found to get rid oth this problem is first quit ical, then make sure that ur calander is fully synced with some serveice (for example icloud) then go into ur libary folder (normaly hidden so you'll have open terminal and copy this line in:

sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library/

(it will ask you for a password (i think this has to be done on an administrators account, not sure as i do not have any non admin accounts on my computer))

then ull be able to see it in ur home folder)

Then go into it and you should see a folder called calanders, go into that and move all of the contents into a new folder and move that new folder to your desktop (or anywhere else you want, this is a back up of what was there before) (once you do this there should be nothing left in the calander folder in your libary folder), start ical and it should the pull down all of your calander events from the service you are using,

Then once you are all done and are happy with it use this command to hide your libary folder:

sudo chflags hidden ~/Library

(you will have to put in your password again as you did before)

(this step is optional as if you want to keep your libary folder un hidden just dont put in this command into terminal, as some people like to have it unhidden like me)

If this does not work and you want to go back to what you had before just go back into that libary folder and remove any new folders and put the old folders back (make sure ical is quit before hand as this may mess things up)

I HIGHLY RECOMEND BACKING UP FIRST, and I TAKE NO REPONSABILITY FOR ANY DATA LOSScaused, DO AT YOUR OWN RISK, as i said earlyer i am only letting you know what i did to fix it and so far i have found nothing that has messed up.

Hope this has helped

Thomas

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