I want to turn off iCloud and keep all my calendar reminders, How ?

Hi Csound1, Your sugestion was tried at the Genius Bar, the exporting of the calendars is not the real problem. The problem is importing them intact. We got the warning about the alerts being damaging to my computer and they were removed and all replaced with the " 9:00 the day before alert" We even created a test user account, imported the saved calendars and depending on a couple settings, either my alerts were removed or they went straight to iCloud.

It is appearing going to iCloud is a one way street.

Randy

Hi, The exact word for word warning message is in the second paragraph of my first post here but it is again.

There are no longer any local calendars on my computer, iCloud took control of them all, that's my problem, I want them back the way they were. So I'm not sure what you are referring too. I know alerts are not damaging, Mountain Lion does not. I have a scheduled call from an Apple engineer Friday morning, I hope he/she can resolve this. I was told if they can not, it will be passed on to level 2 or 3 support.

I saw in another thread in the iCal forum something about a terminal command to do something with sync services. I will mention it in the call tomorrow.

Randy

Hi,

The 'damaging alerts' are linked to Mail. They are email reminders of appointments and birthdays ect.

It's not as simple as you are stating, I tried all you said as did 3 geniuses at my local apple store. Either they stay in iCloud if I'm signed in, or I get that warning, even trying to move them to a different user account did not work.

There is NO On my mac in the side bar, only iCloud. I'm not touching anything until I've spoken to the engineer or a level 2 or 3 person.

The terminal suggestion was said to have come from Apple Care, I bring it up in my call.

If this was as easy as you say, why is nobody at the Apple Store able to make this work ?

iCloud is evil.

Randy

Hey, I appreciate you trying to help, but what you've suggested has either been tried as I mentioned or can't be done, ie: no On My Mac option in the side bar. I'll post after my call with Apple about their thoughts and solutions.

Randy

Hey Csound1,

Looks like we found a solution, it's Mickey Mouse but it works. After talking to two Apple Senior Advisors, this is the fix they came up with:

The first advisor after exploring it for awhile, came to the conclusion the way to get my calendars back local On my Mac with the alerts as I had then was to import the saved .ics files with my my 'dangerous email alerts' being removed then me manually re-adding them. I said that was a no go.

The second advisor, after speaking with me for awhile and trying a few things that we'd tried before said he'd do some work on his end and call me back. A couple of hours later he phoned back with a fix that I guess will have to do, his solution:

I had to go into Calendar-preferencs-accounts and create a Gmail calendar, quit and restart Calendar, I created a calendar in the gMail account. Then I was given the option in Calendar under File-New Calendar to create On my Mac local calendars. Next was to create local calendars with the same names as my iCloud calendars. Now I had to un-check all calendars but one, put Calendar in month view, command-click all the events for the given calendar and drag them to the new local calendar of the same name. I then had to repeat this for each of the calendars and for all 12 months of the year.

I'm not done yet but it seems to be working. As I said Mickey Mouse but doing the job. It seems creating another online calendar account was the only way to get the local On my Mac option, active again. What a pain in the a** this has been, I will repeat it again

iCloud is EVIL.

I've explained this several times here. THERE WAS NO 'ON MY MAC' OPTION TO DRAG ANYTHING TOO.

nothing, none, not there, none existent,

How could I drag a calendar to a place that did not exist ?

For whatever reason, creating another on-line calendar account re-enabled the On my Mac option.

I do appreciate you trying to help, I can see from the number of points you have that you have helped many others, keep it up.

Have a great day

Randy