A fix for disappearing to dos and calendars in iCal
Sep 03, '08 07:30:03AM • Contributed by: ur_beer_buddy
Sep 03, '08 07:30:03AM • Contributed by: ur_beer_buddy
Recently, iCal started acting strangely with screen artifacts, non-responsive behavior, and unexpected quits (I would think that Leopard would start expecting them after a couple dozen times!). I could change views from the menu, but not from any of the buttons. Deleting the iCal preference files brought only temporary satisfaction. iCal would then open fine, but at some point, the calendars and to dos would suddenly disappear from sight. (I found this would happen when I would open the to do list.)
Hiding the to do list would make the calendars visible again, but I still could not work in them. After some testing (checking one calendar at a time and opening the to do list to see if it would freeze), I narrowed down the problem to a corrupted to do in one of the calendars. This is how I fixed it:
Hiding the to do list would make the calendars visible again, but I still could not work in them. After some testing (checking one calendar at a time and opening the to do list to see if it would freeze), I narrowed down the problem to a corrupted to do in one of the calendars. This is how I fixed it:
- Quit iCal.
- Delete the following preference file: ~/Library » Preferences » com.apple.iCal.plist
- Open iCal.
- With the to do list hidden, export the offending calendar and delete it from iCal (you have multiple back ups of your calendars, right?)
- Open the exported calendar in TextEdit. Each to do entry will look something like this:
BEGIN:VTODO PRIORITY:0 SEQUENCE:8 DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20040101T120000 UID:AF68ADF6-C8EC-4543-B0AC-0CCED4CA8FD5 STATUS:COMPLETED DTSTAMP:20080721T221616Z SUMMARY:New To Do CREATED:20080827T223955Z COMPLETED:20080812T060000Z X-APPLE-SORT-ORDER:2127475757 DUE;VALUE=DATE:20080808 END:VTODO - Delete the chunk of code for the last to do and save the file. Go ahead and overwrite the locked file when prompted.
- Repeat steps one through three, and then import the edited calendar file into iCal.
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