my macbook pro calendar keeps reverting back to "new event" every time i make and entry. on average i have to enter and event 3 times before it accepts and post on my calendar. how do i fix this?

I had this problem 3 months ago, royal PITA. Would happen about 10% of the time. Then a bird flew by my window and the problem went away.

Seriously though, no idea why it stopped. Then starting this week, the problem is back. But now at a 50%+ rate of occurrence. I run an international company and have hundreds of people counting on my calendar not imploding meetings, conference calls, business trips, etc. This is an unbelievably bad problem to have. Can't imagine Apple isn't aware. So frustrating. No time to upgrade to Yosemite right now - there is ALWAYS a deadline ahead. And by the time I do get to this. Any bugs will be answered with - upgrade to El Capitan.

Bottom line is that our company switched all sales, marketing, and product personnel to Mac in 2008. All the most business critical functions were 98% dependable up thru Lion. After that, bugs, bugs, bugs. We are now considering going back to Windows over the MANY issues like this calendar one. Very sad times.

I hope you call Apple and give them a chance to fix this - it isn't good enough to say "upgrade to Yosemite" because there are valid reasons why people don't always run the latest version of the OS. I always hang back on upgrading because every time I upgrade the OS, something breaks, usually a critical third party app and then I have to wait for that to be upgraded. What I do expect is that if I'm running only one version behind, it will keep working well until I choose to upgrade. This calendar bug is a disaster, I too have missed appointments though not on the scale you are encountering. Maybe the potential to lose a significant corporate client will wake them up.

I think it's a problem with iCloud sync, because none of fixes they suggested (and I spent many hours over several days, with Applecare support, trying to get this fixed) had any effect - which you'd expect if the problem is with iCloud.

If nothing else, they ought to try to fix this because it must be costing them a fortune in Applecare support costs.

I just found a work around.If you create the event and keep the default calendar (i.e. "Work", or whatever it selects by default), it works, then double click it and change the calendar to whatever you want (i.e. "Family"). Kind of a pain, but easier then entering everything a second time.

I find it saves a higher percentage of events in the default calendar, but even some of them end up as New Event. What I now do for calendar entries is this:

1 - start the new event and type all info in the top line (even locations, notes)

2 - highlight and copy that line (Command+c) to put it on the clipboard

3 - close the event, and wait a few seconds to see if it saves (most events appear to save briefly; some then change to New Event)

4 - if the event has gone to New Event, open it, paste in the saved line (Command+v), edit the event as needed (change calendar, move info around)

5 - close the event again and it should stick; but if not you still have the content on the clipboard and can repeat step 4 until it does

This is a ridiculous procedure to have to go through, for EVERY new calendar event. Apple, please fix this!!!

I use OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and I cannot upgrade to Yosemite until the company blesses it. I have six iCloud calendars and one Exchange calendar.

Solution 1:

With one iCloud account as the default calendar, create a complete event using the default calendar. If the default calendar is fine, all done. If you need a different calendar, open the event you only need to change the calendar.

Solution 2:

Set the Exchange account as the default calendar. It is safe to change the calendar to an iCloud calendar when creating an event (i.e. no need to reopen the event).

I spent quite a few minutes this morning playing "guess the event" which is not as fun as it sounds.

I set the preference to that but it didn't stop the problem. Kind of like whack-a-mole and until Apple decides to work on this, I guess we'll be playing.

I don't have the problem on my iPhone or iPad. But I don't always want to use them for calendar entries!!

I haven't tested this enough to know if it is 100% accurate, but it seems that reverting to "new event" does not happen unless I create the event and drag it to the correct time. If I create the event and enter the time with keys the event does not revert back to new event.

Somehow I doubt it.

I have found, however, that if I enter events on my iPhone or iPad, this doesn't happen.

Today I had several things to add while I was working on my desktop, and every &)$*^ one of them took 3 or 4 tries to stick.

How do we get the programmers to notice?????

Hi I've got the same problem but found a work around but not a permanent fix. I enter the event, as it came up in my default calendar which is Blue (Home), and after completing the event, notes in the event, etc., I exit it (Return) and then I go back into the event (as if to edit) OR right click to change it a different calendar i.e. Red (Work) and it does NOT remove my typing or change it back to "New Event".

Many of us have found "workarounds" that seem to work for a little while. Let us know if this continues to work for you.

I assume that you mean that you click on the event very quickly, before it reverts to "new event."

This work around has worked consistently for many months. I use the default Calendar and then I execute the Edit immediately after completion of entering the Event (including Attachments, Notes, etc). I immediately do a right click to edit the Event to change to the correct Calendar. My husband also does this and it works for him. He was having far more problems then me because he has many more Calendars. It's not a fix but it's works for us and our data has not disappeared. I hope it works for others as well.

That's what I've been doing for months (copy /paste). Items entered to the default calendar seem to work properly. Not being able to use the drop-down to select a different calendar event is a pain. Especially since I continually add and change work events from different employers (different calendar with different color) on a daily/weekly basis.

EDIT: The hierarchy of the responses is bizarre in this forum as this comes at the end of all responses instead of directly under the post I'm replying to.

Changing the default calendar each time is also almost easier than going through the above procedure. An annoying process to a "bug"(?) either way.

What I have found is that I can enter a new calendar entry and it will be fine AS LONG AS I don't change the event type/color. Then I click outside the event and it seems to stay filled in. Then if I click the event a second time, and change the event type/color, it seems to work. I just can't enter an event and change the event type in one step, or it reverts to New Event. It is totally a pain that they haven't fixed this, but the workaround seems to always work for me. I just have to remember to do it in 2 steps.

I now see this is the same workaround as posted by V-NC. Anyway, it's been working for me for months.

The same problem in my case:

Updating to El Capitan did not help. Event input is lost and the item "jumps" back to New Event.

It happens not each time, but for me quite often - also with El Capitan.

There seems to be a correlation with changing the calendar (color of the event) when creating a New Event, i.e. changing away from the default Calendar for new events may somehow trigger the problem.

Only on Macs, this never happened on my iPhone.

Thanks, Dewdman42!

That was the easiest solution, and it has worked!

Preferences/accounts/refresh calendars: 'every minute'

(I knew it should be more simple than backing up and reinstalling, etc)

Let's ask Apple to make this the DEFAULT setting, especially when iCloud is enabled.