Cannot Delete On My Mac Content

I had been keeping all of my calendar, contacts etc in iCloud but had been running into another problem since upgrading to Sierra and had the suggestion to log out of iCloud then log back in. When I logged out of iCloud, I was asked if I wanted to keep the PIM data on my Mac or erase it and I selected keep on my Mac.


Now when I logged back into iCloud, it correctly recreated all of my calendar, contacts, etc but left the duplicates in On My Mac. Now I cannot get the duplicates that are on my mac to delete. For instance, I'll delete the calendars and they will go away, but if I close and reopen the calendar application, they reappear. Are these stored somewhere in the filesystem I can just go in and delete?


Thanks,

D

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 27, 2016 2:44 PM

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Oct 10, 2016 7:16 PM in response to Fox8

Yes I managed to correct this myself... not 100% sure on the steps but I believe it was something like this:


1) Close Calendar App

2) Open Finder

3) In Finder hold Option key and select Go menu then Library

4) This opens the Macintosh HD>Users>UserName>Library folder where there is a folder called Calendars.

5) I renamed the Calendars folder to Calendars.deleteme to test.

6) Open Calendar app.


For me all my calendars were in iCloud so they just did a sync and everything was fine after that. Then I deleted the Calendars.deleteme folder permanently.


D

Oct 11, 2016 10:51 AM in response to Fox8

Thank you for the reply. I found another discussion (see link below) and used a similar but waaay more involved process but I am now free of an "On My Mac" Calendar that was so corrupted that it added not one, but two US Holidays in addition to the "iCloud" Holiday. 3 Columbus Day, Christmas, etc., was more than I could handle. Thanks again for the note.

discussions.apple.com/thread/4865985

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