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iCloud accepting old appointments

When I upgraded my consulting macbook pro to 10.7.2 and iCloud, it went and accepted (and emailed responses) to old appointments. I only recieved cursious repsonses from some of my clients, but I fear it may have spammed everyone. Searching around doesn't reveal anyone else with this problem (although someone contaced me directly via my blog who has the same issue).


Does anyone else knonw what's going on? Why would iCloud send a response to a meeting that's almost 4 years old?


Richard Whiffen has accepted your invitation to:


event

Move Groups 5B-12A-7A-7B.2-10A Migration - 12-15, 12:00Noon Status

location

1-800-XXX-XXXX /N XXXXXXXX

when

December 15, 2007, 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM


To update the event in your calendar, open the attachment.

iCloud is a service provided by Apple • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2011 Apple Inc. • 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014 • All Rights Reserved

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!


Rich Whiffen

iMac and MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 19, 2011 7:46 AM

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Oct 21, 2011 1:29 AM in response to rwhiffen

I encountered a similar Problem. During 4:55 and 6:26 iCloud changed some calendar entries sending out emails to all participants of that appointment.


Guess what. If you try to delete an appointment in the cloud you have no choice but to send an canellation to all participants. Even deleting a komplete Calendar sends out the decline notification.


I find it somewhat frighteing that iCloud can send out messages without asking.


A chatted with a Member of Apple Support this morning. There is no Workarround. I mentioned that every other Programm oder WebApplication such as Outlook or Google Calender simply asks is a cancellation should be emailed or not.


Ich hope Apple will look into that soon. I dont want to end up explaining why i send out Appointment Spam each morning.


Kind Regards


Michael

Oct 27, 2011 2:47 AM in response to rwhiffen

I encountered the same problem. I upgrade to OS X Lion and activated synching with iCloud. Shortly after that iCloud felt compelled to send out e-mails notifying friends that I accepted their invites from 8 months ago. Fortunately I'm using iCal only for private stuff and there was just one invite in my calendar that qualified for an automatic response from iCloud. Still, I find it very awkward that iCloud is sending messages on my behalf without notifying me and without providing an option to turn of this kind of functionality.

Oct 27, 2011 2:14 PM in response to rwhiffen

I synched my work calendar to ICloud on my home PC and office PC and the cloud sent replies to all meeting invitees for meetings future and old meetings that had been originally scheduled by my acceptance of a meeting request organized by someone else --with me as the organizer, even though I was not and had not taken any action to re-respond or send notice to all attendees. It appeared I was rescheduling all my clients and business contacts' meetings as my own for all dates past and future. If I deleted an appointment that had been scheduled as a meeting request it sent a meeting cancellation notice to all attendees with me listed as the organizer, even though I was not. This occurred hours after synching for the first time and ICloud continued to hijack new appointment requests as they came in the next day and resend a new meeting invitation to all recipients with me as the organizer. I had to disable the cloud for my calendar and hard synch. I am running Outlook 2007 at home and 2010 at the office. Still working with ICloud to synch contacts between PC's and Iphone. I cannot find any posts where Apple is working to address this problem. No action on meeting requests past future or otherwise should be taken without authorization of the user.

iCloud accepting old appointments

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