iCal Version 5.0.1 (1547.4) New Event titles revert to "New Event"

Fast forward to May 2015, with Mac OS 10.9.5 and the problem with new iCal entries resetting to "new event" is still happening!!! 😟

This has been happening to me for the past few days and it's maddening!

This has been happening to me the past week. I am besides myself.... Please help!

Happening to me too. Apple needs to fix ASAP!

Has anyone found a fix? This bug is going to get me fired! I found a tip in another post regarding the account preferences (push vs. manual, 15 min, etc.).

Changing these settings has worked for some, but mine is still doing it no matter what I choose. HELP!

I called support, they had me install Yosemite. The ical issue has resolved. I am not a huge fan the the new operation system. The new Photo program has a lot to be desired, but the ical is working! Hope this helps! Thanks Linda

I have Yosemite and it is happening to me....

Driving me crazy. Almost made me miss a few important meetings! Grrrrr

this is madness. I create a new event, and within seconds the new event looses all it's information, time, name, description, everything lost. this can be reproduced consistently. opening/clicking the event right after creating it does not prevent this behaviour. I used ical for my business and this drives me bonkers. apple help !!!

Same problem here. Annoying!

How to replicate:

1. Create new Event

2. name it

3. change Calendar

4. close Event

5. wait 2 Seconds -> All data lost. Event is described as "New Event"

Changing Frequency of Refresh does not help (Pull, 1min, 5min, 15min, manually). Same behaviour.

iCal Version 7.0 (1841.1)

OS X 10.9.5

It seems to me that the problem is exactly related to switching calendars while creating the event. If I create a de novo event, and don't change the calendar, no data is lost. If I change the calendar before (or after) entering the event information, everything is lost as rb_ describes. My workaround is this (if you need to change calendars):

1) Create a new event.

2) Change the calendar.

3) Click away to "save" the new event.

4) Wait a couple seconds

5) Double click on the New Event to open it back up.

6) Make the changes.

7) Click away to "save" the proper event.

It is a real bummer that you have to do this - and a pain if you don't remember. Also, it does not work for events where you used "add to iCal" - like eVite events, and events retrieved from Mail. For those, you have to create the event on whichever is the default calendar, save it, wait, then go back in and change the calendar.

You have identified the problem precisely. It occurs when you create a new event and switch calendars before "saving" the new event. The problem arises because new events open in one's default calendar, which means that if you attempt to assign a new event to another calendar -- something that is clearly contemplated by the design of the program -- you will lose your data. Since the program itself allows for and encourages the use of multiple calendars, users should not be required to go through an unnecessary, counter-intuitive step (i.e. entering data into a new event and "saving" it in the default calendar, then reopening the event to assign it to the desired calendar). This is clearly a design flaw that should be fixed by Apple. The strange thing is that this was happening in an earlier version of iCal (5.0.1) and then was clearly fixed for a period of time, because I only began experiencing this problem a month or so ago. Before that, when I entered data in a new event and then in a single step assigned it to the desired calendar, I did not experience any data loss. One of Apple's recent updates clearly created (or recreated) a problem that had not existed for some time.

Apple, seriously, fix this. Argh!

Thanks for the workarounds everyone, was on the verge of finding a new calendar client. Maybe I still will..

That does seem to work, thanks. But seriously cmd on Apple, how on earth do you reintroduce a bug after 4 years. Many people's schedules are in tatters. Professional software? Give me a break, your apps are breaking more and more every week.

Definitely the calendar change that's causing the issue.

To simplify fulmar2's solution, have the calendar list showing on the left and click on the appropriate one before creating an event.

You can also hit Return to save the event instead of clicking away.

The 2015 issue is discussed under a new thread. With the same old observations…

new entries revert to "new event"