"ical can't log in to your "icloud" account because your password may be incorrect"

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"ical can't log in to your "icloud" account because your password may be incorrect"

ical can't log in to your "icloud" account because your password may be incorrect

Hi guys, has anyone else had this alert pop up? My calendars have been transferred to the cloud successfully, and I know this because if i turn off iCloud all my events disappear. Only thing is, any time I try to add a new event or edit something, this box comes up telling me my iCloud password may be wrong...any ideas on a fix for this guys?

Thanks very much!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 8:06 PM

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Oct 16, 2011 1:35 PM in response to Sammington

Same thing here. I'd feel better if it wasn't just two of us in this boat.

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Oct 16, 2011 2:35 PM in response to JimmieChicago

Hey Jimmie, at least at makes it slightly more likely to be a bug rather than human error. Not much more though 😀

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edion86

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Oct 16, 2011 3:50 PM in response to Sammington

Me too!

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Oct 16, 2011 3:55 PM in response to JimmieChicago

This worked for me.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4000?viewlocale=en_US

Specifically...it's will give you a scary screen saying everything on your machine will be deleted, but I jumped right into it and said "bring it". worked.

Turn iCloud Calendar off and back on

Quit iCal.
Choose System Preferences from the Apple () menu and click iCloud.
Remove the checkmark in the checkbox next to Calendars.
Close System Preferences and wait about a minute.
Open System Preferences and choose iCloud.
Replace the checkmark next to Calendars.
Close System Preferences.
Open iCal and test to see if the issue has been resolved.

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edion86

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Oct 16, 2011 4:09 PM in response to Sammington

It worked form me to uncheck the calendar option inside the icloud icon (in general preferences, the gears icon). An then check it again. Good luck!

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Sammington Author

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Oct 16, 2011 5:27 PM in response to Sammington

Thanks for the suggestions guys, no luck for me though I'm afraid! it worked for perhaps all of two seconds, and then popped up about the password again...

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Oct 17, 2011 11:44 AM in response to Sammington

I got it working! I'll tell you what I did (some of the things probably didn't actually do anything, but I can't tell):

Turn off wi-fi through the icon on the menu bar

In iCal, under the 'Calendars' drop down menu click 'Refresh All'

In iCal Preferences>Accounts, delete iCloud account - it'll prompt that all data will be removed from iCal.

Quit iCal

Re-boot iCal

(This one probably didn't need to be done) Try to add iCloud account back in the accounts preference - won't work as wi-fi is still turned off.

Turn wi-fi back on

add iCloud account as normal in the iCal Preferences>Accounts pane.

Et Voilà! Hopefully this is a permanent fix and it won't pop up again later....

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Sammington Author

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Oct 17, 2011 1:41 PM in response to Sammington

Scratch that, a few hours later and the same alert pops up.... 😟

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55therrm

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Nov 21, 2011 6:58 PM in response to Sammington

I personally can not stand companies that put applications out that are clearly not ready for publication. In this regard, APPLE *****. I've not had so much difficulty in migrating over to this "stinkin" iCloud crap. Having to rebuild my schedule because of this stupid password glitch is rediculous. I almost was a happy camper switching over to MAC. Can't say I'm all that pleased.

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Sammington Author

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Nov 21, 2011 8:47 PM in response to 55therrm

Hey 55therrm, I feel your pain, and everyone having this issue is no doubt annoyed that the software isn't working as it should be, but if we stay constructive in the thread we may be able to help each other out. I havent had to deal with this situation for quite a while because I started using something called FantastiCal. It's by no means an ideal fix as it costs around £13 on the mac app store, but it keeps all my iCal calendars up to date flawlessly with iCloud, and there hasn't been a single issue with it this far. Apart from only having a small calendar display (it drops out of the menu bar) it pretty much completely replaces iCal, and in a sense solves this issue.

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Nov 25, 2011 6:39 AM in response to JimmieChicago

Thank you so much! I did what you suggested - unchecking calendars and then rechecking and it fixed my problem. Much appreciated!

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Jan 29, 2012 4:14 PM in response to Sammington

Thanks so much for this! Worked great!

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Feb 22, 2018 11:20 PM in response to Sammington

Thank you JimmieChicago 🙂 That worked for me. - so far so good

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Feb 5, 2012 10:45 AM in response to 55therrm

Agree with your "stinkin" iCloud crap comment. I got the error messages to go away, but lost all my calender entrys.

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Feb 16, 2012 12:51 PM in response to Sammington

I'm probably stating the obvious here, but make sure you have all current/latest system updates. I had to reinstall Mac OS X and didn't realize that it downgraded me from 10.7.3 to 10.7 (apparently, the system lied when it said it was downloading the latest components). At any rate, I looked in my System Prefs and there was no mention of iCloud... sure enough I was on 10.7. Upgrading now.

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