iCal invitations suddenly only received as email

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iCal invitations suddenly only received as email

sending ical invitations between family members has worked great. we're using this feature only once in a while, not regularly.

since december 21st (2011) i'm receiving ical invitations only as email message, with 2 options:

1.

to add the attached .ics file to ical.

this doesn't work on ipad or iphone, and has created duplicates on my macbook, whicht have the synced to iphone + ipad, where i cannot remove the duplicates i have successfully removed on my macbook (ical).

2.

click on the contents/text/buttons in the email message to accept or decline an invitation.

this will NOT create an ical entry in my calendar!

however, the sender of the invitation get's my accept/decline in her calendar/meeting.

the invitations are sent to my correct icloud/apple-ID.

what has changed? why am i not getting new calender entries in my ical inbox, like i used to get them before?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 17", 2.5 GHz (early 2008)

Posted on Jan 2, 2012 5:55 AM

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Answer 1

tuscan Author

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Jan 2, 2012 5:58 AM in response to tuscan

forgot to add that we are both using our own/independent iCloud accounts.

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Answer 2

Jan 30, 2012 4:47 PM in response to tuscan

I had the same problem. One of my apple id's had the others as the secondary email address. I removed all of the secondary email address. Now each person /account receives an invite on their device.

Use the "manage your account" on this web page

https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/

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Feb 1, 2012 8:27 AM in response to Bowespark

that solved my problem! thank you very much!

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Answer 4

Feb 1, 2012 9:40 AM in response to tuscan

These steps unfortunately didn't fix the problem for me or the friend I've been testing with. We both went in and removed the secondary emails we had listed and then tried a test iCal event and still get email notifications.

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Feb 1, 2012 10:17 AM in response to New Apple Boy

i just checked again:

it works as expected for the apple id i have setup for use with my icloud calendars.

and i still get an email message for invitations to the account that is not setup for icloud calendars - but this is what i would expect to happen.

maybe that's the reason why it fails in your setup? did you try sending invitations from/to both accounts?

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Answer 6

Feb 1, 2012 10:19 AM in response to tuscan

My iCloud account is tied to the same email as my iTunes account, all through Gmail. It's setup for calendars and contacts and so forth, and syncs them all fine between iPhone/iPad/iMac but won't receive invitations properly. What's frustrating is that it's only been for the past month or two that I've noticed this. When iCloud first went live I was able to send and receive notifications of iCal events through my iCloud gmail account.

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