birthdays not appearing in iCal after up upgrade to Lion

Ferd II,

Yes, that's what I thought. It isn't showing - though it's set exactly as you describe.

Ferd,

I'll give that a try. Thanks.

I'm still wondering whether - if iCal needs a specific AB-based calendar file (in the format) 24F37C2B-316F-4C0B-B111-5835551585DB.caldav etc - it's not showing them b/c that file (folder actually) is missing?

Is that possible?

If so, any ideas about how I identify it, please?

Ferd,

I've not had AB do anything odd, No.

My iMac came with 10.7 on the SSD Volume.

I did a fresh installation of 10.7.1 (from App store, so no cloning etc) on the 1TB Macintosh HD Volume.

I then Migration Assistanted my ~ (including all my calendar folders, of course) onto 1TB.

Then replaced the contents of ~/Library/calendars there with the clean SSD ~/Library/calendars so that I could start afresh with just Home and Work iCal calendars.

Presumably I shouldn't need to bring over previous birthday calendars if they're in now, here AB, should I?

IOW this is really a fresh install of iCal - except that Migration Assistant will have brought previous ~ calendar folders over.

Thanks. In fact I would never recommend messing with a folder that must have its own internal audit/manifest for parent program either.

I'll try the refreshes tonight and report back, if I may?

Your help appreciated :-)

Ferd,

Well I've done a bit of investigating. The long and the short of it is that some calendars were subscribed to; others were not. And birthdays was not.

I guess what I really want to do (it's a new machine and I made a separate list of only those calendar dates I want to enter (it's not many) fresh) is start from scratch, keeping only my Birthdays because they're in Address Book.

If you know the best, saftest way to completely delete all my calendars - from MobileMe, onMyMac, my iPhone and everything, that's what I'll do - stop them synching altogether - then rebuild from scratch.

And assume that Birthdays will pick up from Address Book.

Thanks!

Ferd,

Thanks! That's really helpful.

I'm actually really quite happy to delete everything, I really am. I've started to use Things for tasks and saved in TextEdit all the dates I need to re-enter. So your cavalier help is very welcome.

Are you saying to treat my MobileMe as the center, the 'base', the control - so to speak - from and in which to manage all my other calendars?

I'm not synching to or from MobileMe except on my iPhone.

As long as I have one working calendar - common to my iMac, iPhone and MacBook - I'm happy.

Do those MM instructions apply to Lion?

How do I delete On My mac calendars?

Why are they there?

Last question (and I'm so grateful!), what's the purpose/distinction of and between 'regular' and 'On My mac' calendar? Do I really need them?

Thanks again!

Ferd, Good morning - and thanks again. That's all very clear!

I think what I'll do is make sure syncing is off on all three devices (iMac, iPhone, MacBook).

Or should I actually disable the MM account there, rather than suspend synching?

Set up the calendars on MobileMe just as I want them.

Then re-enable.

There isn't a 'Calendar'/'Events' option in Lion > System Prefs > MobileMe, is there?

Ferd,

Thanks once again. Will do :-)

Good luck…

Your help much appreciated!