Q: Create Multiple and Independent Calendars?
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Jul 12, 2014 9:19 AMby Eric Root,Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Jul 12, 2014 5:18 PMby r1100rsl,Hello Eric,
Thanks for your reply and suggestions. Back-to-My-Mac was (and is) not selected.
I did this:
1. Added a new user. Calendar behaved in the same way as in my user account.
2. Booted into Safe Mode; then
Calendar behaved the same way in my user account; and
When I created another new user, Calendar continued to behave the same way.
3. Rebooted normally; then
Calendar behaved in the same way in my user account; but
When I created another new user, Calendar behaved correctly and didn't automatically populate the new user's calendar with other user's events.
During all this, the only applications running were the Finder and Calendar.
It's encouraging that in Condition 3 with a new user, Calendar behaved correctly. That suggests that something is awry in my user's Calendar preferences or my user's Calendar file. Next step will be to trash Calendar's preferences in my user account to see if that changes things. If not, then I'll try exporting my Calendar data, quitting Calendar, trashing the files in~/Library/Calendars, restarting Calendar, and importing the data to see if things have changed.
Thanks again for the support. I'll check back in with results.
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Jul 12, 2014 5:42 PMby r1100rsl,No luck yet. I trashed the preferences files and the calendars themselves (after exporting the data), then imported the data to a new DB Calendar and tested to see if its listings were independent of another newly-created calendar. They weren't. For grins, I again added a new user and tried there - with the new user, Calendar behaves correctly, as it did in Condition 3 above.
Seems like something remains corrupted in my user files. Are there other files to delete beyond the preferences located at ~/Library/Preferences, and the calendar files located at ~/Library/Calendars ?
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Jul 13, 2014 8:27 AMby r1100rsl,Hi Eric,
No luck. I don't see any Calendar items in ~/Library/Containers, which has these items inside:
com.alinofsoftware.alinoftimer
com.apple.iLifeSlideshow.MRXPCMovieServer
com.apple.ImageKit.RecentPictureService
com.apple.iPhoto
com.apple.mail
com.apple.Notes
com.apple.photostream-agent
com.apple.photostream-agent.ImageConversionService
com.apple.Preview
com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX
com.apple.reminders
com.apple.ShareKitHelper
com.apple.TextEdit
I'm running out of interest on this, and have certainly taken enough of your time. Thanks again.
I did figure a workaround that allows the dog's meds calendar to exist: I created the dog as as a new user; his calendar is there and works correctly.
Cheers,
-David
