How can I determine how many events are in my calendars?

Hi there

I ran into the same problem last year. The solution I used is available here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1693875

Apple don't seem keen to tell you you've reached your limit and if you think that isn't helpful tough luck. I reached due to duplicate events being created. I didn't know what had happened until I eqnuired further on the above forum. Someone needs to create an event counter application. Perhaps they have. Would need to do a search.

However I've now reached the limit again and I'm not sure why, cue more faffing around being required. That's one of the problems of using a Mac computer with an Android phone.

As for the limit, it exists and if you dont like it you need to change the way you work not Apple. That's the impression I get. Alternatively use something else that has more generious limts. I don't know what that would be. I did consider moving my calendars to Google but it would have meant certain functionality would not work in BusyCal, the third part calendar application I use on my Mac computer.

I've now found an even easier way to do this. There is an Apple script which will count events in a calendar:

http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=38725

You will find the Apple script editor under the utilities folder in your applications folder.

Once it opens just pasted in the script text. Change the calendar name to the name of the one you wish to count.

Then click the run button in the toolbar. It will count the number of events. It may take some time to do this. Counting my call log calendar returned 22410 events.

I had problems previously with duplicate events appear in my call log calendar. This problem may have returned, hence why I counted that calendar first.

It may not solve you hitting the limit but you might have a better idea of which calendars are leading you to hit the limit most. This is assuming you use multiple calendars.