Mijko

Q: local 'on my mac' calendars, notes and reminders missing in Mountain Lion

Hello

 

I recently updated from Lion to Mountain Lion and have noticed I no longer have the option to create a new calendar 'on my mac' anymore. My only option when trying to create a new calendar is to make it an 'icloud' calendar.

 

Missing 'on my mac' option.png

 

Alongside this missing option, I have noticed that 'on my mac' folders that appeared in the new Notes and Reminders applications when I first opened them have also gone missing.

 

I'm not certain, but they might have gone missing when I temporarily signed out of my icloud account in system preferences.

 

Is there any way to get back 'on my mac' calendars and folders in these three applications?

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 10:55 AM

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  • by Mijko,

    Mijko Mijko Jul 28, 2012 1:50 PM in response to Mijko
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    Jul 28, 2012 1:50 PM in response to Mijko

    Ah ha! Success with Calendars 'On My Mac'

     

    After following dburrens steps, I got them to appear again.

     

    I think it's important to make sure you only disable the iCloud account from inside Calendars preferences, and not actually completely sign out from iCloud from within system preferences (which is what I tried before following applefandan's first suggestion).

     

    Now I only have 'On My Mac' folders missing from the new Reminders application, which is where I'd would make most use of them. Has anyone got them to reappear there?

  • by Mike Matthews,

    Mike Matthews Mike Matthews Jul 30, 2012 1:08 AM in response to Mijko
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    Jul 30, 2012 1:08 AM in response to Mijko

    Do this:

     

    Control-click on an empty space in the Calendars list in the sidebar. From the pop-up menu that appears, choose New Calendar. You can also make a new calendar group this way. And it appears you don't have to disable your iCloud (or other) accounts.

     

    mm

  • by verdi1987,

    verdi1987 verdi1987 Aug 4, 2012 3:26 PM in response to Mijko
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    Aug 4, 2012 3:26 PM in response to Mijko

    Trying to get back the option for local "On My Mac" Notes while also using iCloud Notes was driving me crazy. I originally moved all my Notes to iCloud after upgrading to 10.8. Afterwards, I wanted to keep sensitive Notes locally, but there was no way to either move a Note out of iCloud or create a new one locally, as the local Notes folder had disappeared.

     

    Somewhat serendipitously, the OS X Notes app had a problem syncing one particular Note and created four duplicates locally — "On My Mac."

     

    So now I have both local and iCloud Notes.

     

    It boggles me that the ability to recreate a local Notes folder either was overlooked or intentionally not included/fixed. Then again, I am even more surprised there is no way to sort Notes alphabetically (whereas you could when Notes resided in Mail).

  • by Mike Matthews,

    Mike Matthews Mike Matthews Aug 4, 2012 10:00 PM in response to Mike Matthews
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    Aug 4, 2012 10:00 PM in response to Mike Matthews

    And I should add this: make sure that no other calendars are selected is the Calendar list. If a calendar is selected, then the New Calendar will be created within that account, rather than On My Mac.

     

    mm

  • by revstrange,

    revstrange revstrange Aug 9, 2012 9:31 AM in response to dburren
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    Aug 9, 2012 9:31 AM in response to dburren

    republish them where? i am using iweb and i can no longer publish my calendar.

  • by webweasel,

    webweasel webweasel Aug 10, 2012 5:00 AM in response to Mijko
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    Aug 10, 2012 5:00 AM in response to Mijko

    Excellent Mijko, now were're getting somewhere!  Thanks for the tip,

  • by deivy,

    deivy deivy Aug 26, 2012 8:10 AM in response to Mijko
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    Aug 26, 2012 8:10 AM in response to Mijko

    Thanks Mijko,

    You are absolutely right, doing it from within iCal fixes the problem.

    However, I believe that this is an abuse and we should have our local calendars if we wanted too.

    not everything has to go thru iCloud.

    I'll file a bug report with Apple and suggest everyone else do the same.

  • by Cucurucho,

    Cucurucho Cucurucho Sep 13, 2012 7:33 AM in response to Mijko
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    Sep 13, 2012 7:33 AM in response to Mijko

    In case it helps, this is what I did to recover the "on My Mac" section on Calendar (after mistakingly allowing iCloud to gobble up my local calendars).

    Did an export of all the relevant calendars. NOT a backup, an Export. You end up with an .ics little file for each calendar.

    Unchecked Calendar & Reminders from the iCloud System Preference, walking past the warning that the calendars where going to vanish from my Mac, rain would pour and my cat would be kidnapped by angry koreans (which after trying to fix the stupidity of this app for hours seemed like an enticing perspective). Puff... the calendars dissapeared from Calendar.

    At this point it was impossible to create a calendar on the "on My Mac" section, which had apparently also been taken for a ride.

    Went to Calendar Preferences and deactivated all my CalDAVs.

    Back in Calendar did File->New Calendar and created an "untitled" calendar. Boom, it landed on "on My Mac".

    Reimported the calendars I saved, using the .ics files above.

    All's well now. I just hope the darn team that developes Calendar simmers for ages en el infierno.

  • by mauer_uk07,

    mauer_uk07 mauer_uk07 Oct 11, 2012 11:20 PM in response to Mijko
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    Oct 11, 2012 11:20 PM in response to Mijko

    I finally made it! Thank you Mijko!

    Yeah, the key thing is we only need to uncheck the "enable iCloud" checkbox, create a new "On my mac" calendar adn then re-enable the iCloud Account.

    Greeetings from Mexico!

  • by mikejimtech,

    mikejimtech mikejimtech Dec 13, 2012 12:46 PM in response to dburren
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    Dec 13, 2012 12:46 PM in response to dburren

    Excellent.  Took a while to figure this one out, but that totally solved my problem.  Thanks!

  • by KirkKerekes,

    KirkKerekes KirkKerekes Mar 20, 2013 6:30 AM in response to Mike Matthews
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    Mar 20, 2013 6:30 AM in response to Mike Matthews

    Another way to recreate the "On My Mac" calendar section is to use Automator to create a Calendar action. That will automatically recreate the On My Mac group.

     

    Then, if you don't want to keep the Automator calendar, create another calendar in the On My Mac section before deleting the Automator calendar.

  • by K I M B A K A T,

    K I M B A K A T K I M B A K A T Apr 2, 2013 8:55 AM in response to mauer_uk07
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    Apr 2, 2013 8:55 AM in response to mauer_uk07

    Great..but where is the option for "On My Mac" in Mountain Lion?

  • by KirkKerekes,

    KirkKerekes KirkKerekes Apr 2, 2013 9:05 AM in response to K I M B A K A T
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    Apr 2, 2013 9:05 AM in response to K I M B A K A T

    Create an Automator Calendar Action, and Calender creates the "On My Mac" section to put a "Automator" calendar in.

     

    The Action contents is irrelevant.

     

    Create the action in Automator, not Calendar.

     

    Just try it, you'll see.

  • by J-e-L-L-o,

    J-e-L-L-o J-e-L-L-o Oct 29, 2013 8:17 PM in response to mauer_uk07
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    Oct 29, 2013 8:17 PM in response to mauer_uk07

    I was having trouble with iCal also trying to figure out how to enbable On My Mac calenders. (Late to the party on upgrading to Mountain Lion).

     

    Simple and easy fix: Disable ALL accounts first. Then you can create a new calender which includes a new "On My Mac" calender. I had more than one and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Disabling them gives you a blank calander to add to.

  • by Ellen B.,

    Ellen B. Ellen B. Jan 25, 2014 1:47 PM in response to applefandan
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    Jan 25, 2014 1:47 PM in response to applefandan

    The only options I'm given when trying to creata a new calendar is gmail or icloud.  I cannot get On my Mac no matter what, and BTW all my calender entries are now in quintuplicate! Please help.

     

    Message was edited by: Ellen B.

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