How do I add a calendar to iCal when all I have is an iCloud caldav?

Ferd,

I think this might do it. However, when I attempt to add a calendar, I am not shown On My Mac to choose. Instead there is a dead email account. My iCloud server account is offline as suggested in the thread. How do I get ON MY MAC back?

Gary

My had two similar iCloud accounts. The iCloud account which has most of my calendar data is garykolson (at) me (dot) com (iCloud) which was set up automatically when I set up my iCloud account and is the account I turned off from iCal. Somehow, I got another iCloud account garykolson (at) me (dot) com which has no data in it, so I erased this account. The latter account is what still shows when I try to add a calendar.

Perhaps I could throw out com.apple.ical.plist, and restart the computer and this might help. Also, now that the one account is erased, I wonder if reinstalling 10.8 would get me a new iCal.app?

Gary

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I tried troubleshooting iCloud calendar, but although I did not find what I wanted there, the discussions made me think of searching under local calendar instead of On My Mac calendar. I noticed another discussion after I searched for "can't create local calendar". I came across this discussion:

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

On the second and last page was this entry:

Latest reply: Jul 30, 2012 1:08 AM by Mike Matthews

If you Control-click on an empty space in the Calendars list in the sidebar a pop-up menu appears and you can choose New Calendar. On my Mac appears as a choice! You can also make a new calendar group this way. I still have the bogus icloud account, but I can ignore that now and still make local calendars. I did not have to reinstall iCal, and pulling out com.apple.ical.plist and logging out or restarting the computer did not get rid of the troublesome account refererce. Thanks for the help.