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Subscribed Calendar Events No Longer getting to Calendar.app

About three days ago--perhaps following the latest update to 10.8.2--the events in my wife's calendar (to which I'm subscribed) stopped appearing in iCal. They are still appearing fine in iCloud.com and also on my iPad and iPhone. However, in iCal on my iMac running Mountain Lion, the calendar shows in the left hand column but none of the events show up no matter how often I refresh the calendar. I tried deleting the calendar from the iMac and re-subscribing, but this has not helped. In fact, the Join This Calendar button on my wife's "subscribe to" email dumps me right into iCloud.com on Safari. I tried right clicking the Join This Calendar button in her email and copied the link into a new subcription in iCal, but an error message popped up saying the link she sent me was not valid.

A further problem is that events I've created in my own calendars on the iMac are not being uploaded to iCloud and the other devices, although I'm getting events created on the iOS devices coming down from iCloud into the calendar on iMac. Very strange problems.

I'm stumped about what to do and am always very cautious about making changes here since I've caused myself big problems in the past by deleting calendars to correct problems only to have them totally disappear, requiringh fairly major surgery and Time Machine to get things put back together again. The changover from MobileMe to iCloud was particuarly messy in this regard.

Any ideas.

Erik

iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Oct 7, 2012 4:57 AM

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LownoteNB Author

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Nov 14, 2012 7:56 PM in response to LownoteNB

Finally, success. Some time today Calendar.app on my iMac started working properly again. My wife's shared calendar events are showing up, the program no longer hangs with the error message "can't connect to P02.caldav.icloud.com...", events created on Calendar.app upload to iCloud.com and then out to my iOS devices as well. I wish I knew what had been done to make this work, but I'm happy that I finally have a working calendar back together. I have just sent an email to the senior Apple tech who has been my contact through this asking him if he could provide me with any additional information on what fixed the problem, and if I learn anything more, I'll post it here.

Geoffram

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Dec 4, 2012 11:11 AM in response to LownoteNB

I just spent a bunch of time with Apple and have solved my similar problem. A week ago, iCal and my iPhone calendar stopped syncing. My assortment of iCal calendars were gone from iCloud, so that was the problem (not phone to iCloud). After much de-selecting and re-selecting, I realized that all my important calendars were @me.com type. I tested the iCloud calendars, and they functioned perfectly. Apple explained a simple way to migrate the @me.com calendars to iCloud:

Create a new iCloud calendar File > New Calendar > iCloud

Name the calender

Right click the old @me.com calendar and choose Export. Desktop is a good destination.

Drag the exported calendar from your desktop to the new iCloud calendar

iCal should show duplicates of all events in the @me.com calendar.

De-select the @me.com calendar. The duplicates will disappear.

Repeat with all the @me.com calendars and abandon this antiquated list.

Rejoice in your shiny new list of iCloud calendars that shows up everywhere it is supposed to.

There must be a lot of people out there who still have @me.com calendars, so I hope this info reaches them before they all spend time and money with Apple trying to sort it out.

Subscribed Calendar Events No Longer getting to Calendar.app