can't edit repeating calendar events

It's the "Default calendar app". I checked the box under System Preferences/iCloud so it would sync with my phone and iPad.

When I enter a repeating Event onto my iMac calendar, it does sync to the ipad and to the phone. If I edit one occurrence and select "all future Events", then quit calendar, when I restart calendar the edit is still there. If I select "only this Event", then quit Calendar, when I start it up again, that edit is gone.

I had found that an edit done on the iMac for "all future Events" shows up on the iphone and ipad; for "only this Event" it doesn't come through - however, now it appears to have become erratic, as I just now entered events on both ipad and mac and they didn't sync at all. Up until this latest development, going through the same procedures but using my ipad to make all the entries all the edits remained intact on the Mac as well as on the iPad. I'm still using iOS 7.1.2 on the iPad.

Yes, I did that several times, before coming to the forum.

Sorry, I thought I'd said that. After experiencing the problem with the one repeating event, I created several more "test" repeating events, with the same results. If I edit them, the edits stay in place until I close out of calendar. Then when I re-open calendar they're gone. I have tried this over and over.

Sorry, I possibly should have made it clearer that I ws choosing the option to change only that event, not all future events - although I think that's obvious from what I said, and the example I gave.

NO!! Not the same problem! The edits stay intact! - came through to my phone, but not to the iPad - so I turned the cloud off on the ipad and turned it on again, and they showed up!

I confess I've never gone to iCloud.com before - the only things I wanted synced were the calendar, and Notes, and up until I got the new computer with Yosemite everything was fine.

So now then, I'll go right into iCloud.com to do any work on Calendar I guess, is the best plan.

Thank you SO much for your help and patience - I was ready to go back to the wall calendar and pencil method. I've depended on my Mac's calendar for years, and I'm so relieved to have it back. Really nice of you to take the time to help me, and I appreciate it.

Best wishes,

Lynne 🙂

LOL I'm far from happy with the workaround. I HAD a great, working calendar before Yosemite. I thought you meant that's what I HAD to do, and if that's the only option I might as well have accepted it. I'd much rather solve the problem and not have to go to iCloud - but going to iCloud is a better option that nailing a paper calendar to the wall.

Clearly, I need to put in some time and read up on iCloud. Thank you for your help.

Hi Douglas,

Yes, you're exactly right, that's how the problem goes.

Because my computer is new and at the time I still had the 90-day applecare, I spent a couple of hours on the phone with them. Long, long story short, once the supervisor got in touch with the iCloud engineers (that's what he called them) - where he had forwarded files to from my computer etc etc, - he got back to me in a few days and said the icloud people told him it's a "known problem", and they are working on it. They say it should be fixed soon.

Meantime, in case anyone else having this problem reads this - my own solution is, if I need to make any change to a single occurrence of a repeating event, to go directly to the calendar IN iCloud and do it there. Then all is fine. Just sign in, go to calendar then make a shortcut to keep on your desktop for convenience.

Thanks.