new entries revert to "new event"

IMHO Apple is just showing that their software is not reliable enough for professional use anymore!!!

I started having random reboots of my computer, calendar issues, export issues in my music DAW and much more in Mavericks. Downgraded to Mountain Lion the other day (fortunately had a clone of my old disk) and wow! Works quicker, no random crashes, works better with my DAW software, iCal still have the same issues though and it crashes sometimes when trying to input time in the event for the first time (which tells us it's probably an iCloud issue).

Most of all I would love to go back to Snow Leopard… but unfortunately Apple have changed the coding for the menu system so most newer programs won't work with it! Hurray for your genius let's-have-everyone-update-update-update-all-the-time plan! The perfect recipe for loads of non-functional situations and conflicts between programs!

This problem began for me at the time this thread appeared. I have found a third-party solution (running Mavericks): I use Fantastical, which is a great menubar app that relies on Calendar. All events I enter in Calendar using Fantastical stick properly, regardless of the calendar and default calendar.

Fantastical is smarter than Calendar, anyway. And this cure suggests that this doesn't seem to be a synching issue with the cloud, but an internal bug in Calendar itself.

It's pretty clear to me that this has to be an iCloud syncing issue (but there are other possibilities and those are actually worse). Because as I say, I started having intermittent problems with the iOS calendar (admittedly not nearly as bad as the Mac Calendar, but still). AND (it would be better if I were making this up for everyone but I am just NOT), my NOTES started acting wonkey (it's been going on a week). When I make a change in a note it sometimes (fairly frequently actually) will duplicate the title of the previous note but the data will have all of the correct information for the note you are in.

So either these problems are part of an iCloud Sync issue or the Mac OS and iOS Calendar and the Notes app (in my experience anyway) are all having separate issues. Neither is good in terms of reliability. *I am running a Mac Mini and a Macbook Air, both on Mavericks, iPhone and a new iPad Mini.

Just makes the most sense to me to start looking at other solutions. Mainly because of the lack of response from Apple than anything else for me. If someone were to ask me if I could recommend Apple right now I would just make an excuse that I couldn't talk right now and leave the conversation. I mean, can you imagine a new user trying the Calendar and having it wonk-out like that on them? Talk about seeding major buyers remorse.

Thanks for the warning. An earlier poster said it's gone in 10.10, but as my 10.10 computer suffers from disappearing disk space, I'd rather stick with 10.9 if there's a chance upgrading doesn't fix this problem.

Why can't Apple fix this? Why did they break it in the first place? I should switch to Google Calendar.

Just wondering if people are still having this problem? For the last 2 weeks iCal has been working as it should whenever I create a new event in iCal using 10.9.5 or 10.10 on my macs or on my iPhone or iPad (both running iOS 8.4). These are all synced via same iCloud account.

Would appear that it is a sync related issue.

-Chris

Just tested it. Problem still occurs using 10.9.5

My wife started having this problem a few weeks ago. I don't know if I have solved her problem, but a few tests suggest that maybe I have. She is running a fully updated Mavericks on a first generation low end Air.

The New Event problem seems to have started when she created a new calendar, which she established in her iCal preferences (or iCal established for her) as her default calendar. So I changed this problem default calendar back to the default calendar she used to have before the problem calendar was created.

Note that this is not merely the prior default calendar, but also the actual original default calendar as set up in the original Mavericks on her computer. I believe that Mavericks is the original OS on the computer, but it might have been Mountain Lion - in which case, the default calendar I changed her to goes back two operating systems. I mention this because the solution to the problem might reside in insuring that the default calendar is the original default calendar per the OS.

Also note that the problem default calendar was one which is not shared with anyone, whereas her old, and now new, default calendar is shared. I mention this because perhaps the non-shared nature of the problem default calendar is somehow implicated.

We'll see if this continues to solve her problem - I'll try to remember to report back either way in a few days.

Can't figure out how to delete this...

I've made a clean install of Yosemite lately since I got a new computer. Yesterday I remember it still changing the time to default time for an event but today it seems to work?? So seems as if the problem is gone for me on my new Yosemite.

But of course still have same issue in Mavericks.

I'm still having this problem (on 10.9.5) and my iCal is *not* synced to any other device, though I am using iCloud (long, convoluted story as to why).

Should I export my calendar, delete my iCal account from iCloud, and import it to see if that fixes the problem? I haven't wanted to try it 'cause I rely heavily on my calendar and I'm afraid things might get screwed up worse. Meaning, I'm not Cloud savvy....Perhaps Fantastical is an option. 😝

Hi, Just wanted to say that I've been using the same default calendar since day 1, and events weren't reverting until around the time this thread was started. So, in my case, at least, that's not the problem. :-/

This is so frustrating! I can't think of anything that's changed for me that could have triggered this. In other words, I really think the problem is on Apple's end, and not caused by anything we're doing differently. Though I sure hope the problem has been resolved for you! 🙂

This also started on my end without me changing anything... so seems like the same ting. It's definitely a problem on Apple's side. Just weird they are not answering our support requests.It's probably a huge iCloud bug they don't want to admit to...

Same thing here and completely agree and support "acmac" comment regarding Apple Tech... The multitude of small problems that now appear are forcing people further and further away from MAC! What was once a seamless system now seems over complicated and doesn't work properly! Not the vision of an end to end system that was once spoken of!

See above where I thought I might have a solution to at least some iterations of this problem.

After an initial period where this seemed to have worked, my wife's iCal is up to its old tricks. Still getting the New Event Bug.

Everything seems to point to this being a Cloud issue, which I suppose no individual user would be able to correct...