Can't share calendars after iCloud transition

Have the exact same problem. My wife's "shared" calendars in iCloud appear as shared with the green icon, but when you click on it, it doesn't give you the option to "Resend Calendar Invitations."

I read one "solution" that said to create a new calendar, drag whatever events from the old calendar over to the new one that you want to keep, then re-share it with someone. That's not really a solution that works for me because my wife and I need to keep a record of all past events.

This is really ridiculous. I've been putting up with this crap from apple for YEARS between .Mac, MobileMe, and now iCloud. This is why people prefer Google. I'm at my wits end.

Hardly a fix IMO. If you want to keep previous events, this doesn't work.

There seem to be two or three distinct problems described in this thread. I appear to have the same issue as the original one Kevin mentions:

Since upgrade (family pack Mobileme) I can share my (master) calendars to my wife - and she can see them on iCloud web, iPhone and iCal. When we re-share her calendars (which we appear to have the option to do) and re-send the invites I receive an email but I do not get an alert in iCloud web, iCal or iPhone - I get the invite email and when I click on join it seems to try to join (spinning wheel) before giving me the error message Kevin desrcibes in his initial post:

Can't join shared calendar

This calendar can't be joined because it's no longer shared

This is despite her iCal and iCloud web stating clearly that the calendar is shared to me; and I have used all of the different email address linked to my iCloud account - all fail in exactly the same way.

Others are describing issues about initiating sharing calendars - that appear to be resolved by calendar recreation. This solution does not work for the issue I have.

Does anyone else have the same problem Kevin and I describe? Has anyone found a solution?

Thanks

Tomaz

This is sucking big tyme...I signed up for mobile me family pack about 5 months ago mainly for the shared calendar solution for me and my wife. It has helped us with our demanding schedules to prioritize dates and events on all of our devices. Now I can't seem to see her calendars anymore and the option to share them isn't available:(

Hi All, at least this seems to be a problem that more people are having so there may be a fix. However, just to update you on what apple told me on the phone.

The icloud people could not work it out. I spent about an hour an a half on the phone to them and then they said speak to the mobileme people via the chat mechanism. I duly did so. The looked at it and said you need to create a new calendar and copy your items across. I told him I have 1777 events and drag and paste was not an option. He said you can copy across using outlook. However, I tried that and for some reason outlook doesnt like it and I get loads of errors. I think I tried it so many different ways that the server was then denying me access!

So I have created a new calendar and am able to share it fine but I cannot work out a way to copy across my old data from the calendar that is not shared.

I also seem to have a calendar in outlook that exists as an incloud calendar that is not on the incloud site.

What a mess!

I have the same issue? My wife, and two children can share each others calendars - but for some reason I can´t seem to get acess to my daughters calendar?

Can't join shared calendar

This calendar can't be joined because it's no longer shared.

I´ve tried to backup the calendar and make at new one + delete the old one - but it still won´t let me share the calendar??

I found that I was able to drag all my events from the old calendar to the new using outlook - I had tried copying and pasting and importing but neither of those methods worked for me. I had over 4000 events in my calendar so it was nailbiting - it took a while but it did do it successfully.

Good luck everyone with finding a solution - let's hope Apple sorts it out quickly.

Dear Michael Emery,

Your fix worked for us. I have not got an iphone yet (coming soon!), but have had a me.com account for 2 yrs now.

I updated to icloud, and had the same proble. My calendars shared okay, but my hubby's didn't.

So I did what you suggested and it works now, thank you!

I kept his previous calendar, and renamed it as old, and then changed his new one back to his name, and colour, and so have both any old ones, plus new calendar notes.

Thanks again,

Kristina

I think the key is to send the invitation to the email associated with the icloud account.

I shared my wife's calendar sending the invitation to another email address and got the "this calendar can't be joined.." message same as the others when I responded to the email. This email was not the one associated with my icloud.

I reset the sharing on her computer to the email associated with my icloud (XXX@me.com) and resent the email invitations. No error message and sharing worked. I hope this is the solution for all, as deleting calendars and remaking them was the kind of crap you had to do with mobile me.

I was having the same problems as everyone else, with an existing calendar or a new one. But i found a solution:

My iCloud was associated with my Apple ID, and my Apple ID login was my gmail address. This is what I was sending the invite to, and I was getting th invite, but it was failing. I did not have a need to create a me.com address, but I created one, and sent the invite to that address, and it worked.

Kevin,

I am having the identical problem. By any chance did you upgrade from MobileMe Family Plan? If so, was your account, the master account?

This is the only fix I found that worked.....Thank you ....Its a little tedious to do but I didn't need all my previous stuff. If you do it just do 1 month at a time it took me about an hour to do.

So far none of the suggestions have helped my calendar sharing issue! I contacted apple support today and have had this issue escalated to senior staff for investigation. So I may get to see my wife's calendar in a few days - if they can identify the issue.

I'll post any response here.

Tomaz

Kevin, I've been able to use my .mac and .me logins interchangeably most places. Then again, I'm not doing shared calendars in the way that you are.