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Mark Sealey Author

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birthdays not appearing in iCal after up upgrade to Lion

Just done a completely fresh install of Lion (10.7.1) on a new iMac.

Successfully brought my previous Snow Leopard home folder over using Migration Assistant.

But I wanted a fresh start with iCal so deleted all the relevant iCal files in ~/Library/Calendars.

Now - as I would expect - iCal birthdays not showing up.

Is it simply a case of finding which was the old birthdays calendar file from my old system and dropping in in?

If so, any idea how to identify which file it is?

Thanks!

Posted on Aug 29, 2011 7:29 AM

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Ferd II

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Posted on Aug 29, 2011 10:20 AM

Mark,

Address Book has a "Birthday" field. If that field is present and populated, when you select iCal>Preferences...>General>"Show Birthdays calendar" you should get a Birthdays calendar displayed in iCal.

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Ferd II

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Aug 30, 2011 9:41 AM in response to Mark Sealey

You are welcome...glad to help.

Jastro

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Sep 27, 2011 10:42 AM in response to Ferd II

Ferd,

Thanks! The plist refresh helped me too!

birthdays not appearing in iCal after up upgrade to Lion