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Successful MobileMe to iCloud migration, but iCal now giving error messages

I successfully migrated to iCloud, but when iCal tries to sync I get these two error messages.


iCal couldn't move your calendars to iCloud because an error occurred. Make sure you're connnected to the Internet and then try again.


There are two buttons: Try Again Now or Try Again Later.


I also simultaneously get this message, which will not let me select either choice (the buttons don't work):


The server responded with an error. The request for account "iCloud" failed.

The server responded with "509" to operation CalDAVMigrateToServerQueueableOperation.


The options are "Stay Offline" or "Go Online" but I can't select either button. I click and nothing happens.


I have to select "Try Again Now" or "Try Again Later." And when iCal tries to connect, the error messages appear again. It just keeps repeating every 30 minutes (I have iCal set to sync with iCloud every 30 minutes).


Any ideas? Thanks in advance. This is bugging me out.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 1:29 PM

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Dec 27, 2011 7:38 PM in response to Michael Hughes1

Same problem here. Help anybody?


I also don't understand why Apple would move away from I-Disk/Mobile Me when the Cloud won't sync all of my documents. Seems like a good time to buy stock in DropBox (is it a public company?). I just migrated my doc. storage to DropBox and it appears to be everything that I-Disk never was. Maybe that's why Apple has discontinued it.

Jan 11, 2012 1:33 AM in response to Michael Hughes1

This is indeed an unsolved problem.


I also have a persistent "the server responded with 509 to operation CalDAVMigrateToServerQueueableOperation".


I also have this in my system.log:


Jan 11 10:24:43 alma [0x0-0x67a67a].com.apple.iCal[2749]: 2012-01-11 10:24:43.708 iCalExternalSync[3337:407] [ICalExternalSync ]CESSyncTool:Encountered -[__NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: MigrationGroup/p88) stack: (

Jan 11 10:24:43 alma [0x0-0x67a67a].com.apple.iCal[2749]: 0 iCalExternalSync 0x000000010ce5277a iCalExternalSync + 128890

Jan 11 10:24:43 alma [0x0-0x67a67a].com.apple.iCal[2749]: 1 iCalExternalSync 0x000000010ce34094 iCalExternalSync + 4244

Jan 11 10:24:43 alma [0x0-0x67a67a].com.apple.iCal[2749]: 2 ??? 0x0000000000000007 0x0 + 7

Jan 11 10:24:43 alma [0x0-0x67a67a].com.apple.iCal[2749]: )

Jan 11 10:24:43 alma iCalExternalSync[3337]: [ICalExternalSync ]CESSyncTool:Encountered -[__NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: MigrationGroup/p88) stack: (

0 iCalExternalSync 0x000000010ce5277a iCalExternalSync + 128890

1 iCalExternalSync 0x000000010ce34094 iCalExternalSync + 4244

2 ??? 0x0000000000000007 0x0 + 7

)


Do you guys have something like this in your system.log? (use Utilities/Console.app to find out if you aren't command-line savvy).


I have filed a bug at bugreport.apple.com,

Problem ID: 10675237

I suggest you all do the same.

(You might want to reference my problem ID, but I don't know whether your problem is exactly the same I have.)

Feb 29, 2012 2:31 PM in response to amusey

Apple engineers are actively looking into this -- I have exchanged debug information with them in the problem ID cited above. The problem itself is probably easy to fix, but a fix will just lead to the "Gemino curse" of magically replicating iCal calendars going on and on again. So that needs to be fixed first, and sync problems are always extremely hard to fix.


Where did I read recently:


"Calendaring indeed is the biggest unmitigated disaster in the Apple

ecosystem. iCal and its servers in the iCloud system deserve CEO

attention, now."


Can't google it, now.

Successful MobileMe to iCloud migration, but iCal now giving error messages

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