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help I deleted my my iCloud account and it wiped my ICal blank with a few exceptions

Help, I deleted my icloud account and it wiped my ical blank with a few exceptions that are not even correct?

Posted on Oct 20, 2013 2:09 PM

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Oct 20, 2013 2:59 PM in response to Sepoh

If you have been syncing your iCal with iCloud then the calendars live on the server, not on your Mac or device; so when you sign out (or click 'Delete account' on an iOS device) you are breaking the contact with the data on iCloud, but not deleting it from the server.


You can go to http://icloud.com and check whether your calendars are there. If so, simply signing in again will restore them.

Oct 20, 2013 3:11 PM in response to Sepoh

Did you actually delete the calendars from iCloud - that would delete synced calendars from iCal as well. If that's the case you might be able to restore them from a backup, but then iCloud would immediately delete them again; so you would need to follow the procedure outlined here:


Restoring iCloud calendars from Time Machine or other backup

Oct 21, 2013 8:47 PM in response to Sepoh

wow do I feel dumb....perhaps you can give me specifically what I am looking for when trying to find what I'm supposed to be restoring???

I've used time machine and I've also looked on my external harddrive......but since I'm really confused I'm just not having any luck. So I understand that its not the ICal App that I should be looking for but folders right? so they would have .calendar file extensions?

where do I find these files or folders ....

Oct 21, 2013 11:40 PM in response to Sepoh

The folder you need to restore is (user)/Library/Calendars. You don't say what operating system you have. Apple have hidden the user’s Library folder in Lion and Mountain Lion to casual viewers, in an attempt to stop new Mac users messing their machines up. To access it, in the Finder go to the ‘Go’ menu and hold down the Option (Alt) key; the Library folder will appear as a choice.

Oct 22, 2013 8:56 AM in response to Sepoh

You have to use the camera icon in the toolbar, and the image must be jpg or png, so you will have to convert a screenshot.


However: if you are running Time Machine you should have its icon in the menubar. Click it and choose 'Enter Time Machine' when you have the (user)/Library/Calendars window frontmost.


When Time Machine has loaded, click on the receding windows to move back to a point where your calendars are in that window. Then restore them.


All this assumes that they are backed up in Time Machine. If they aren't, then obviously you can't proceed.

Oct 24, 2013 9:55 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

The last time I backed up my computer using time machine & my external drive was late Sept.....I would be happy to be able to restore my calendars from then as its mostly past history that I want to access for reference.....

so even though I know the specific date of my last back up (as its highlighted in pink) when I do search for the calendar in Time Machine following your instructions it doens't go back that far?

under the calendars folder there are folders, documents and ical back up file to choose from and the closest one to Sept is Oct 12 and that has a .caldav extension.


so when you say "all this asumes they are backed up in Time Machine" my question is why wouldn't they be?

how do I know? when I'm doing a backup my assumption is that everything on my computer is being backed up...is it not?


when you say "move back to a point where your calendars are in that window" I'm not sure what I'm looking for now as my assumption is to look for ical as that is the app I use to access my calendar when I want to use it. I do see that ical app showing backed up on my last back up in Sept but as you said its not the app I am backing up it the folders?


My assumption is that my problem is multilayered in what started sometime after a while back I updated my email address/password in my apple id. Sometime after (weeks) I changed my apple id I started getting a pop up message when on my calendar indicating something to do with icloud and my appleid not being valid? I kept closing the window for weeks on end till finally I went to try to figure out the problem. Noticed that my icloud email address was the old one and no matter what password I tried new or old it wouldn't fix it. I couldn't even update it cause it kept telling me my info was invalid and I would have to reset it but I was never able to reset it as it didn't recognize the email address even though its the old one that I still have access to I never got the password reset email that was supposed to have been sent. So frustrating story ends where I go to icloud and try for the upteenth time to update/change whatever it wants me to do and I get this message:


"If you stop using icloud for calendars, calendars stored in icloud will be removed from this mac. Your calendars will still be available on other devices using icloud"


my options were to cancel or delete from mac and although I pressed cancel and tried other options I finally came back and opted to delete as I figured this would be the only way to update my icloud id to match my apple id to fix the annoying pop up


so happily I stopped gettting that pop up

and it was shortly after that when I signed on my computer and went to my calendar and it was wiped! with a few exceptions

help I deleted my my iCloud account and it wiped my ICal blank with a few exceptions

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