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Can't share calendars after iCloud transition

Updated the whole family to iOS5 & iCloud today and it (almost) went off without a hitch.

My wife and I each maintain a personal calendar, shared (read-only) to the other. I also maintain a family calendar, shared (read/write) between us. Updating to iCloud broke the existing shares, but it told us it would do that, so once we were both upgraded, I reshared all the calendars.

My wife was able to subscribe/join to the two calendars I shared, no problem.

When I try to subscribe/join to her calendar, everything starts fine, but then at the very end, I get an error from the iCloud web page:

Can't join shared calendar

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

I've tried recreating, exporting, importing her calendars, none of which has any effect. Even if I create a brand new calendar with no items and share it, that's the response I get when trying to join it. I suspect something in her calendar data on iCloud is messed up, but have no idea how to go about getting it reset.

Suggestions?

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 11:39 PM

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Keyvan H

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Dec 9, 2011 1:09 AM in response to Kevin O'Shea

Hi, I had same problem. After 1 hour searching around for a solutionit is working now 😁.

My problem: could not see my son and wife shared calendar in my iphone.

My solution: When I checked in General preferences in iphone I hade both mobile.me and icloud acount. Then deleted just mobile.me acount and log into icloud again. Every thing back to normal 😉

C-Stone

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Mar 13, 2012 5:08 AM in response to koups51

This is the same problem that I am having. The shared calendar icon is green, not gray, and I do not see the boxes that allow you to add a user:

DJ.Rumpy

Level 1

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Jun 15, 2012 9:00 AM in response to C-Stone

I believe many of you may have more luck if you temporarily change your default browser to Safari. I had this issue, changed my default browser to Safari on the problem machines, and they were able to successfully subsribe to other calendars after that.

You can do so by opening the Safari prefernces, and changing the default browser on the General tab at the very top.

Also make sure the when you are sharing your calendar out, you do so from the browser, and not your local iCal application. It seems to work better since there is no delay in syncing your local changes to the cloud.

https://www.icloud.com

Hope this helps.

epski

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Aug 16, 2012 7:55 AM in response to Kevin O'Shea

I experienced the original poster's error of not being able to share a calendar because it was no longer being shared.

Turned out that my secondary iCloud account (gmail address) was using my primary iCloud account's email (me address) as an alternate email address, and removing the me.com address at appleid.apple.com (for the secondary, or gmail, iCloud account) resolved the issue.

Can't share calendars after iCloud transition