I would like to keep all my calendars in my iCloud account and want to do away with those calendars that are On My Mac. I have previously moved all events from On My Mac calendars do iCloud calendars. How can I remove the On My Mac calendars?
The Calendar preferences show that the account On My Mac exists. Where is that account registered and where can I edit or delete it?
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
4 years after the post but still relevant - I took the nuclear option and deleted every folder ending in .calendar and the Calendar Cache file right from the start. It's basically all in iCloud anyway but, I did keep all of that stuff in the Trash just in case. Relaunched Calendar and it worked perfectly. Top Tip!
Then you've got a corrupted plist or data file. I'm not sure where to start deleting. I really haven't poked around in Calendar's innards.
I just tried this, and it worked.
Back up your Calendars by using the Export>Calendar archive from the file menu.
Quit Calendar.
In your user/Library/Calendars folder is a bunch of folders ending with .calendar. Those are your On My Mac calendars.
First, try deleting the Calendar Cache file from in that folder, then restart Calendar and try to delete the calendars the normal way.
If that doesn't stick, try deleting all the On My Mac Calendar folders, then the Calendar Cache file.
To determine which calendars those are, open a folder and select the info.plist file and press spacebar. Towards the bottom it will have Title tags and the name of the Calendar. Use that to figure out which folders to delete.
Here's and example of how to find the name of the Calendar inside the folder:
The name of the Calendar is right next to the highlighted Info.plist folder in the background.
Thanks. I did that previously, but those calendars keep on reappearing.
Worked for me in Sierra Calendars. I had more orphaned Junk, that is, .calendar, .group, .caldav and lastly
the Calendar Cache files that I cleaned out. Made sure I didn't delete any of the 14 files I trashed before testing Calendar for several days and several restarts.
You don't. It is a built-in "account."
Just delete all the calendars in "On My Mac" and it will go away.
Very helpful to delete the files which named Cache in user/Library/Calendars.
Even on the newest Sierra system when calendar keep re-appearing.
Thankyou - worked perfectly - been looking everywhere for a fix - and this did it.
Removing "On My Mac" calendars
