Duplicate entries in ical

I have just downloaded iOS5 on my iPhone 4 and all my current iCal entries have been duplicated. Is there a way I can delete these, apart from going through them one by one (which could take many hours!)

In Calendar, click the "Calendars "button; delete the MobilMe calendar that's probably still syncing.
Worked for me...

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Deleting duplicate entries in iCal?

How do I delete duplicate entries in iCal (identical entries on the same date)?

Todd,
I suspected a more serious problem because the answer was too easy.
Thousands of duplicate entries...Is this what happened?
According to, Mac OS X 10.4: Stay away from the SyncServices folder: As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4. Removing or modifying anything in it—or in subfolders within it—may cause unexpected issues. (This folder is located in your Application Support folder, in your Library folder, in your Home folder.)
Deleting or modifying things in the SyncServices folder may cause unexpected results such as:
• Duplicate contacts in Address Book or appointments in iCal.
• Data loss in Address Book or iCal.
Important: Any lost or duplicate data could propagate to other devices and computers via iSync and .Mac sync. This means data could be lost on other computers.If that is your problem, I suspect that without a backup, duplicate entry deletion will at best be tedious, and at worst fraught with frustration. You may be better off starting from scratch.
;~)

Why do I get duplicate entries in iCal on my iTouch?

I get duplicate entries on the same day in ICal on my iTouch? Is there a way to remedy this problem?

Sound like you're syncing via iCloud AND via the iPod sync mechanism. Connect to iTunes and go to the Info tab. Uncheck the box:

Duplicate entries in iCal. I don't get it!

Is there some place that I can go to get a definitive explanation of how iCal, Mobile.me and Subscriptions are interconnected? I don't get it. I always seem to end up with duplicate entries in my calendar. If I remove a check mark in one calendar, then stuff disappears, but if I put the check mark back, then I end up with duplicate entries.
Seems to me that if I enter stuff only in iCal, then I should only see it once. Unfortunately, Mobile.me or subscribed calendars seem to cause things to appear more than once. Birthdays are a real problem. I enter them in contacts, but Mobile.me seems to want to pull them from there and from the calendar, then they show up twice. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, and there doesn't seem to be any clear instruction (that I can find), clearly outlining where or how stuff should be entered. Maybe I'm just dense, but trying to sync between Mobile.me, my Mac, iPad, and iPod....is making me crazy.

JimminyC,
Try contacting Apple using Apple - Support - MobileMe.

How do I get rid of duplicate entries in iCal on my mac after commencing iCloud?

I just got a new iPhone 4s, and have set up iCloud. I managed to sync everthing i think (ie. contacts + calenders) but now on my mac iCal I have three duplicate calender entries for one event, but only one entry on my iPhone. If I delete just one of the entries from the iCal on my mac (leaving 2 still there), the one calender entry on my iphone disappears. Please help. It is driving me mad!!

You don't want to get rid of, it's a security feature. If someone steals your Mac, all that account permits is Safari access, no other access to the computer. This enables you to locate your Mac.

Duplicate entries in ical on iPhone

Since upgrading to iOS 5 and OS 10.7.2 I have duplicate iCal entries on my iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. I also had other iCal syncing problems but by deleting and replacing I think I've solved those.
On iCal entries that I've just now made on my iMac, they are synced correctly on my iPad and ipod Touch. However each of them are duplicated on my iPhone. I think the problem is that on my iPhone iCal app I have multiple calendars under "from my Mac" and also many of them repeated under "iCloud".
On my iPad and ipod Touch I only have the iCloud calendars.
My question is if I delete the "from my Mac" calendars from the iPhone will this eliminate the duplicates?
Will I do any harm by deleting those calendars? If I delete them can I get them back if needed?
Thanks for any help.

I'm having the same problems, I upgraded from Entourage 2008 to Outlook 2011 on my iMac running 10.6.8, and my Outlook/iCal/iPhone/iPad calendars are all different and I have duplicates everywhere, please HELP!!!

How do I get rid of duplicate entries in iCal/iCloud?

Since switching to iCloud/Lion, every entry I make in iCal gets instantly duplicated. This happens on only one of two computers syced with iCloud. Help!

Janice Fisher wrote:
Tgara, you are brilliant!
Yeah, everybody says that.
Janice Fisher wrote:
I notice the mail setting in iTunes is set to sync, but all the others are set at syncing with iCloud. What about mail? Should it be syncing with iCloud, iTunes, or both (I assume not both, but......). I still don't have mail working with iCloud anyway so I'm not sure what should be happening there.
I would be consistent with respect to the information in the "Info" pane in iTunes. That is, if you want to sync Calendars, Contacts, and email, use either iCloud for all 3 (e.g., enable all 3 in iCloud and deselect all 3 from iTunes) or iTunes for all 3 (select all 3 in iTunes and disable all 3 in iCloud).... don't break them up across services.

ICal has duplicate entries

Using:
Nano
iCal
iTunes to sync up everything (iCal, etc)
Issue:
Duplicate entries in iCal on nano but not in iCal on PowerBook
What I did:
I originally had it iCal set up with Sunday as first day of week. Everything in nano was just peachy. Then I had to go an fiddle with it and made Monday first day of week and now, when I sync, my every-two-week-on-a-Thursday event is showing up on Wed and Thurs. I changed the day of the week back to Sunday but no luck.
Any ideas?
thanks!
bob.

I live between two macs and export and import calendars from each to the other and I have the same problem. I too would like to know how to import without duplicating the same events?

How can I get rid of duplicate entries in iPad iCal?

This is kind of a repeat and I apologize, but I have duplicate entries now in my iCa on my iPad because of iOS5? Others on this same topic said something about deleting the whole iPad calendar. Before I did that, I wanted to be sure, that if I delete the iPad calendar, it won't delete the iMac calendar. I'm just not sure how to get one one iCal entry in my iPad calendar. I have birthdays, etc. entered until eternity!

Janice Fisher wrote:
Tgara, you are brilliant!
Yeah, everybody says that.
Janice Fisher wrote:
I notice the mail setting in iTunes is set to sync, but all the others are set at syncing with iCloud. What about mail? Should it be syncing with iCloud, iTunes, or both (I assume not both, but......). I still don't have mail working with iCloud anyway so I'm not sure what should be happening there.
I would be consistent with respect to the information in the "Info" pane in iTunes. That is, if you want to sync Calendars, Contacts, and email, use either iCloud for all 3 (e.g., enable all 3 in iCloud and deselect all 3 from iTunes) or iTunes for all 3 (select all 3 in iTunes and disable all 3 in iCloud).... don't break them up across services.

Every time I sync my iCal computer with my iPhone 4 or iPad, duplicate entries are generated on both systems. What am I doing wrong or how can I avoid the duplications?

Every time I sync my iCal on my computer through iTunes with my iPhone 4 or iPad, duplicate entries are generated on both systems. What am I doing wrong or how can I avoid the duplications? I have been doing this for several years and this problem is a more recent issue, like in the last 6 months. I have been deleting the duplicate entries, on both systems, but some duplicates reappear through "general" entries that are connected to the correct color for a Calendar, but not the name. I am going nuts and wasting tons of hours trying to get the 3 calendars to sync without generating duplicate entries.

Choose one of the Calenders on ONE of the computers OR the MobileMe as the Master / correct account.
The REINITAILISE the data of MobileMe within preferences on the computer defining the datatransfer correctly (in the advanced box of preferences). The synchronise iphone contacts and calender directly on-line to MobileMe.
I posted a question on this today, and gave my own reply !
Regards,
Kevin

Duplicate Birthday entries in iCal

Dear forum
when creating contatcs with birthdays and adding them to an exchange address book, the calendar entries for the birthdays show up twice in iCal.
After testing several sceanrios, it seems that iCal reads from "All Contacts" instead of "Contacts On My Mac" contacts only.
Is there a fix for that ? It worked fine before upgrading to 10.8.

I did some further research and it seems to be a bug/feature in den 10.8 Version.
Apparently the address book API returns two entries for linked cards.
There are some workarounds available in the internet for programmers needing to acces the address book without duplicate entries, but the original problem of the birthday subscription showing 2 entries for the same birthday of the same contact due to the contact being shared between two services (in my case local and MS Exchange server in other cases local and icloud) still exists. The support article does not solve the problem.
Any ideas how to solve this ? Thanks.

ICal, Google Calendar, syncing problems and duplicate entries

Hi everyone:
I could use some help. Oy.
At work, we use Google calendar, and that hosts my appointments. I find the Google web-interface impossible, and would like to use iCal to access the data on the Google servers. I have no problem doing that with iOS--my iPhone and iPad manage to sync up fine, and syncing works in both directions; i can add and delete either on Google or on the iOS devices and everything is fine.
But on my desktop machine, I have problems of two sorts. First, once I follow the steps to add a calendar, the syncing seems broken; I can add and delete from the Google web interface, but nothing deleted from the desktop gets passed to Google. Second, I have many duplicate entries that show up on my desktop and some very old appointments that no longer should be on the calendar show up out of no where.
What I'd love to do is a full reboot, eliminating all calendar data everywhere (except on the Google servers, of course, where the work stuff is stored) and start from scratch. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance--
Roger

Keith Murlless wrote:
My issue is that when I follow directions and go to iCal/prefs/accounts, and click the "add" button.... I don't get (anything). No pop-up windows in which to enter my google account information.
Have you tried rebooted your Mac? (Not needed often, so we Mac users often forget to try this. ) Are you logged on with an admin account or a standard account? (Or one with Parental Controls enabled.)
Sometimes I'll find the dialog window "behind" my other windows. Try not to click or move your mouse after you click the plus button. Or try moving windows around or minimizing them so that any windows that are hidden behind other windows are then shown. (In fact try closing all apps and Finder windows to reduce the possibility of this issue in the first place.)
(BTW, your question really is separate from the original question, since the OP already has their Google account added to iCal and you are having trouble adding the account. In the future you'll want to start your own thread so that you can also mark posts answered or helpful.)

HT2513 all of a sudden I have duplicates of every entry on Ical. What happened?

all of a sudden I have duplicates of every entry on Ical. What happened?

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HT2513 I keep getting duplicate Birthday entries in Ical with only one date/entry in the Contacts App. Please help?

I need help deleting one of the duplicate birthdays in Ical on my Macbook Pro?
Sam

What I found was that you have to go all or nothing. I don't have any personal iDevices (just an iPad through work) so the simple solution was to turn off Contact syncing for iCloud. I'm guessing you'll need to remove all your local contacts or, the more tedious solution, remove the birthdays from all the local contacts. As you surmised, iCal seems to use the whole address book, and can't be just a subset of contacts.

Why do I get duplicate events in iCal when I input them on my iPhone?

Every time I add a new event on my iPhone (as opposed to my iPad or desktop) I get a duplicate entry. This started to occur a few days ago for no apparent reason. This does not happen if I input the event on any other device.
Is there a way to solve this?
Thank you for the help!

This happened to me and finally figured out what the problem is I think. I have MobileMe syncing set up on my iPod Touch and also had set in iTunes to do syncing to the iPod Touch - so one set was coming from MobileMe and another was coming from iTunes on the Mac that the iPod Touch hooks up to.
So I turned off the Syncing in iTunes and now I only have one set of things on the iPod Touch.
I think the reason for this duplication is that even without MobileMe you can keep the Mac and the iPod/iPhone/iPad in sync - the problem seems to be when you do have MobileMe that you probably don't want to have devices be syncing to both MobileMe and to the Mac as well.
To disable the iTunes syncing go to the "Info" tab and deselect the checkboxes for "Sync Address Book Contacts", "Sync iCal Calenders" and "Sync Mail Accounts". Bookmarks can only be synced with MoblieMe since there is no option for this in iTunes. I also have checked the "Sync Notes" checkbox, but not sure if I should have this checked or not. I don't have two duplicate sets of Notes on any device, so for now am leaving this as is.
I think Apple should fix this problem as it seems like a common complaint.
Hope this helps...
-Bob

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