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Q: Calendar.app "Add Invitees" Autocompletes Misspelled Zombie Emails, Prevents Correct Email

In Calendar.app, I invited "alice@x.com, bob@y.com" (mistakenly as one long string, not two separate emails).

 

Now whenever I just try to invite alice@x.com, Calendar.app autocompletes this to "alice@x.com, bob@y.com", and prevents me from just inviting alice@x.com. Highly frustrating.


How do I fix Calendar.app's caches and remove incorrect and unwanted emails? I've tried:


rm ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.corerecents.recentsd/Data/Library/SyncedPreferen ces/recentsd-com.apple.calendar.recents.plist

rm ~/Library/Calendars/Calendar\ Cache*

rm ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.CalendarAgent/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.Cale ndarAgent/Cache.db*

 

But "alice@x.com, bob@y.com" lives on like a zombie! How do I kill it?

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), null

Posted on Apr 8, 2016 11:50 AM

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Q: Calendar.app "Add Invitees" Autocompletes Misspelled Zombie Emails, Prevents Correct Email

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  • by Ferd II,

    Ferd II Ferd II Apr 8, 2016 11:49 AM in response to essandess
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    Apr 8, 2016 11:49 AM in response to essandess

    Essandess,

     

    Also check your Mail Application>Window>Previous Recipients.

     

    If that is not helpful:

     

    1. Quit Calendar, then paste this text ~/Library into the Finder Menu>Go>Go to Folder...window and select "Go." This will open the Users Library Folder.

     

    2. Next open the Preferences Folder in that Library Folder and move the com.apple.iCal.plist file to the Desktop.

     

    3. Log out/in or restart and open Calendar.

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  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Apr 8, 2016 12:08 PM in response to Ferd II
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    Apr 8, 2016 12:08 PM in response to Ferd II

    Thanks. The string "alice@x.com, bob@y.com" doesn't appear in Mail.app>Window>Previous Recipients. I tried removing each of these recipients individually from Mail.app>Window>Previous Recipients and deleting the cache files as above, but the zombie lives on.

     

    And I'm on 10.11, so there is no file ~/Library/com.apple.iCal.plist.

  • by Ferd II,

    Ferd II Ferd II Apr 8, 2016 12:36 PM in response to essandess
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    Apr 8, 2016 12:36 PM in response to essandess

    essandess wrote:

     

    And I'm on 10.11, so there is no file ~/Library/com.apple.iCal.plist.

    ...the correct path for the .plist file is: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist

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  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Apr 8, 2016 12:49 PM in response to Ferd II
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    Apr 8, 2016 12:49 PM in response to Ferd II

    Amazingly, if I delete the accounts and completely delete the entire Mail and Calendar cache and directory structure, then re-add the accounts, the zombie misspelled emails live on!

     

    rm -fr /Library/Containers

    rm -fr ~/Library/Calendars/

    rm -fr ~/Library/Mail/

    rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CalendarAgent.plist

    rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.*

    rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost


    I don't know what else to do -- this must be a bug in Calendar.app related to incorrect data on the server.


    Fortunately, I found a workflow workaround: generate the recipient list in Mail.app, the copy-and-paste to Calendar.app's Add Invitees field.

  • by essandess,

    essandess essandess Apr 8, 2016 1:07 PM in response to essandess
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    Apr 8, 2016 1:07 PM in response to essandess

    a bug in Calendar.app related to incorrect data on the server

     

    That can't be it because other clients to the exact same account don't have the same autocomplete bug.

     

    This is being stored in some highly obscure cache, plist, or database location on the box.