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Q: iCal restore from Time Machine backup

I accidentally deleted some iCal appointments, does anyone know how I can restore them from Time Machine?  It seems a bit cryptic in the Library files

iCal, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 3, 2012 5:25 PM

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  • by dbserious,

    dbserious dbserious Jul 2, 2015 11:32 PM in response to galeu
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    Jul 2, 2015 11:32 PM in response to galeu

    For those unable to "Go Offline"  - this is what worked for me. Easier for me to understand than any other instructions. Be sure to read through all the instructions before proceeding:

    https://www.gcsdstaff.org/roodhouse/?p=3289&cpage=1#comment-469414


    Restore iCal Calendars from Time Machine Backup in OS X 10.8 or 10.9

    Time Machine is a great backup tool and usually works pretty flawlessly.  One area that could be improved is in recovering iCal Calendars.  To recover your iCal Calendars from a specific time you have to jump through a few hoops and do a few steps that may not seem very intuitive.  Here is how:


    1.  Make Sure iCal is closed and not running.

    2.  First Connect your backup Time Machine Device and Turn off your WIFI (and disconnect Ethernet if hard wired)

    Turnoffwifi

    3.  Next Click on Finder and click on the word GO | Go to Folder

    Finder

    gotofolder


     

    4.  Type in ~/Library

    Gotolibrary

    5.  Now Click on Time Machine and Enter Time Machine

    EnterTimemAchine

    6.  Using Time Machine go back in time to the date where your Calendars were good.  Now in the Finder windows find the folder Calendars and click to restore this entire folder.  You can Restore it to your Desktop.

    7.  Exit Time Machine and Drag / Copy this folder Calendars on your desktop to your Library Folder.  You can click again on Finder | Go to Folder | ~/Library if you missing the windows.  (Step 2 Again).

    A message will appear letting you know there is already a Calendar folder,  click on REPLACE or Replace All.

    replace

    7.  Now Restart the Computer.  Do Not Open iCal yet.  You must first restart the computer or logout first and then after you are logged back in, then start iCal.  Your Calendars will be back (you may need to wait a minute or it to and you may see a message saying restoring calendar events.

    After Restoring the Calendar Folder and copying it to ~/Library (Replacing the Folder) Make sure to reboot the computer before starting iCal.

    Restart

     

    Thats it Calendars are restored.  A bit of hassle but can be done.

     

     

     

    If you are concerned about iCloud reverting to the version you DON'T want:

    1. Follow all the steps outlined in the original post, but disconnect ALL your devices from iCloud.

    2. Once the restored calendar is appearing in iCal (before reconnecting to the internet)select it in the calendar sidebar, then export the relevant calendar to your desktop. (file/export)

    3. Close iCal, reconnect to the internet, open ical again. The desired calendar will most likely have now disappeared.

    4. Create a new calendar in iCal, within iCloud – File/New Calendar/iCloud

    5. Import the saved .iCS file that you exported in step 2, to the new calendar that you’ve created.

    6. Reactivate iCloud on all of your devices and wait for everything to sync back up again.

    A few hoops, but much less invasive than deleting library cache files etc. (which didn’t work for me anyway)

  • by thutch2764,

    thutch2764 thutch2764 Jun 3, 2016 5:15 AM in response to dbserious
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    Jun 3, 2016 5:15 AM in response to dbserious

    I've run through these steps:

     

    After logging out and back in my iCal is still blank!?!

     

    Looking at Library I see that upon restarting some new files (other than those I restored from TM) have been created including a .calendar file which I assume is the current one as it contains no events!?!

     

    There are still all the other .calendar files that I restored and they contain all the events, but how do I get them to appear in iCal?

     

    Yosemite 10.11.5

     

    Please HELP!?!

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