Adding invitee to iCal event causes double-ups

Whenever I add an invitee to an iCal event, it doubles up on iCal when they accept. Cannot delete double-up as it deletes it off invitee's calendar.

I'm having the same problem. From the number of unresolved problems with iCal under Snow Leopard I suspect that the application is in need of some serious refactoring. Clearly, the problem with inserting invitees is a problem with an index on the contacts application or the type of query that is being issued. I suspect the later since the mail application does not have the same problem.
Has anyone at Apple with access to source code looked into this? Is there a more formal way of submitting a problem report?

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Issues adding Invitees to ical event

When I click the field to add an invitee to my ical event and start typing the name, my address book contacts come up. I keep clicking the name of the person I want to invite and then if I press enter, tab or click elsewhere the name disappears. Ive also tried just typing in the email address but no matter what I try to do, it just wont let me submit it.
Any suggestions?

I was looking for this answer too. I think I found it here: https://discussions.apple.com///thread/3141227?start=0&tstart=0
Good luck!

Adding invitees to iCal event takes forever...

Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, adding an invitee to a calendar event takes 30-40 seconds. I start typing a name, get the spinning beachball, and thirty seconds later get a list of matching contacts from Address Book.
Thirty or forty seconds is the actual time, not a guesstimate. And while this doesn't seem very long, I can't do anything else while I'm waiting. (If I switch applications, it stops looking where it left off.)
All of my software is up to date. I recently wiped the hard drive and did a clean install (I've tried everything I can think of to decrease this time) and I have about 5,000 contacts in Address Book.
The next option is to delete all of my contacts, but that seems unworkable (for obvious reasons.)
Anyone else experiencing anything like this?
/Jim

I'm having the same problem. From the number of unresolved problems with iCal under Snow Leopard I suspect that the application is in need of some serious refactoring. Clearly, the problem with inserting invitees is a problem with an index on the contacts application or the type of query that is being issued. I suspect the later since the mail application does not have the same problem.
Has anyone at Apple with access to source code looked into this? Is there a more formal way of submitting a problem report?

Cannot type in invitees in ical event.

Hello,
I am facing a problem in adding invitees when creating an ical event
I cannot type an address that is not stored in my address book.
Is there any way to help please?
Thank you

Either you have a demo version that has expired or you simply opened a Layout template that requires a textbox to type into.
Go back to Template Chooser and open a Word Processing temnplate (see the sidebar).
Peter

Adding a new iCal event directly from an email

Mail.app in MacOS X allows you to click on a date/time in any email in order to add the event directly to your calendar, in iCal.
Is there a similar option in mail in iPhone 3.0? This would be so convenient -
I cannot find anything like that but was wondering whether or not I was missing some kind of shortcut or option?
thanks

Is there a way to view a calendar item on the iPhone that is forwarded as an iCal attachement? For example, I am at work on my PC working in Outlook. I forward a new calendar item as an iCal entry. I receive it on my MacBook and can open it. However, if I receive it on my iPhone, I see it as an attachment, but cannot view it or add it to my calendar. I do not want to wait till the end of the day to sync with my MacBook. Any suggestions. (by the way, I do have Mobile Me, but my network will not let me downloand anything, so I cannot configure my PC at work to sync with Mobile Me)

Number 4 is added when typing invitees name in event using iCal 4.0 connect

The client is a new Snow Leopard MacBook Pro it is setup and working just fine with a OS X 10.5 server. All services (mostly iCal Server) seem to be working just fine. The only issues is when adding invitees in iCal event, a number four appears at the beginning of the name as part of the email address of the invitee. The work around has been to just show the Address panel and drag and drop names into the invitees field and the 4 does not appear but if you just start to type the name the 4 appears. It seems to be part of the look-up that is being done by iCal in the local address book and in the address book on the server.
The user can see all of the calendars on the server they have permission to and can and and remove events without issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
bug, ical, address book, 10.5 server, adding events,

The client is a new Snow Leopard MacBook Pro it is setup and working just fine with a OS X 10.5 server. All services (mostly iCal Server) seem to be working just fine. The only issues is when adding invitees in iCal event, a number four appears at the beginning of the name as part of the email address of the invitee. The work around has been to just show the Address panel and drag and drop names into the invitees field and the 4 does not appear but if you just start to type the name the 4 appears. It seems to be part of the look-up that is being done by iCal in the local address book and in the address book on the server.
The user can see all of the calendars on the server they have permission to and can and and remove events without issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
bug, ical, address book, 10.5 server, adding events,

First time using ical. Adding an invitee and ical does not accept address

First time using ical. adding invitee and ical does not accept address

CHRIS A123,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
1. Quit iCal, and open System Preferences...>Language & Text>Formats>Region:>reset/choose the appropriate region...also check what you have set in Dates/Times
2. If that is unsuccessful, I also recommend using the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update (Combo).
;~)

When syncing with Google Calendar invitees added to iCal events wont work

I'm using Spanning Sync to sync my iCal with Google Calendar (which
then syncs with the iPhone app Pocket Informant).
It may be a coincidence, but when I started using Spanning Sync, I
found that when I create a new iCal event and include someone in the
"invitees" field, that person then gets an error message when they attempt
to add the event to their iCal by clicking on the .ics attachment in the notification email ("iCal cant read this calendar file. No
events were added to your iCal Calendar").
When I add one of my own email addresses to the invitees field, the ics attachment works okay for me.
Is this related to the Google Calendar syncing or some other problem?

Hello, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I am guessing you setup the http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html
Please keep in mind that this service is still in Beta. So you may find that certain features do and do not work as you are experiencing. You may find some additional settings options for google calendars at
https://www.google.com/calendar
More information about Google Sync Beta for iPhone below
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139635&topic=14252

Wants to delete my contacts + double posting iCal events and not syncing

Hi everyone!
I hope you can help me.
I have an iPhone + MacBook + iMac and use MobileMe as well. My iphone was full which resulted in it not syncing with my computers. I double checked the settings and saw the "Info syncing" had been turned off for some reason, which I then turned on, and I checked the MobileMe settings as well.
So the situation is this now:
My iCal events are not getting synced to my computer from iPhone or MobileMe.
My iPhone has "double up" some events, meaning that I write them into the phone or my computer, they get uploaded to MobileMe, then synced back to my iPhone and thus appearing twice. I think these are the "old" events that were writing in before my MobileMe account was set up for syncing.
iSync wants to delete 195 contacts on my computers, without modifying or adding any. I did this with my iMac and sure enough some 195 contacts were deleted! Aw! How do I get these back?
My MacBook keeps prompting me with the some message, saying that syncing with MobileMe will delete 195 contacts, even though I have all these contacts present on my iPhone and my computer now.
I do not understand what is happening. I can send the contacts to my iMac and add them again, but I am afraid that these will then appear twice as well. Why can does calender on my iPhone show both the ones I write into the phone and from MobileMe? Shouldn't these be "synced" via MobileMe, so all I have to do is set it up and it should take care of itself? And why oh why does it want to delete 195 contacts? I think these are all my contacts apart from the 5 most recent which I wrote into the iPhone.
Can anyone help me? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
Mc

Hi,
I'm afraid you're asking in the wrong place. This is the iSync forum - which is for syncing contact and calendars to non-Apple mobile phones only. iSync doesn't sync between Macs or with MobileMe.
MobileMe syncing is handled by *MobileMe Sync*, and the forum for that is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
However, you may need to reset your sync data. The process for that is described in this Apple Support Document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1497

ICal 5.0 double click in date box (month view) doesn't create 1 hour long event anymore

Double-clicking in a date box in the "month" view used to create a new one hour long event.
Now, in 5.0 it creates an all-day event by default, and removing "all-day" results in a 6 hour long event. Anyone know how to get it back to the "old" way? really annoying to have to change it each and every time! Thanks.

Lisa,
Here are some of the iCal event creation rules which may help you:
Enter a name, date, and time duration for the event, and then press Return.
For example, you can enter “Super Bowl Party Feb 6,” “Movie with Rebecca on Friday at 7pm,” “Soccer Game on Saturday from 11am-1pm,” or “Breakfast with Jon,” and then press Return.
If you don’t enter a time duration for the event, iCal sets the event’s duration to 1 hour.
If you don’t enter any time information for the event, iCal makes the event an all-day event.
If you enter “breakfast” or “morning,” iCal sets the event to start at 9 a.m.
If you enter “lunch “ or “noon,” iCal sets the event to start at 12 p.m.
If you enter “dinner” or “night,” iCal sets the event to start at 8 p.m.

Problem Adding iCal Events Received via Email (used to work fine)

My wife and I share iCal calendar events between our Mac's via email. A month or so ago I started getting this error when clicking on the link that comes with the iCal event email:
"This calendar file is empty. No new events have been added to your iCal calendars."
We are both on Intel Powermacs running OS 10.4.11 and have the same version of iCal (2.0.5). I can still email her iCal events and she can add them to her calendar just fine. But anything she sends me gives me this error.
Help?

Travis,
I had the exact same problem (with my wife's iCal account to boot ). The solution lies in the "(null) informs you..." It turns out that iCal looks at your personal address card to figure out who you are when populating the email. So, if don't have the email address you are sending FROM listed under your address book entry, then the notice is from NULL.
I added my wife's email accounts to her address book entry on her machine (sorry for the bolds, but the details count.) Then I tried sending a calendar event from her iCal to me. This time it populated with her name and it added to my calendar just fine when I received the email.
I hope this solution works for you (it drove me crazy for about two weeks.)
-Dave

Double iCal Events and Birthdays (and more)

I've been having issues with my iPhone long before iCloud, that repeatable events tend to appear in pairs in my phone and sometimes my computer iCal as well. I tried to modify the iCloud calendar directly, adding new event and see if bpth my phone and my computer can get it. It turns out that my iPhone gets the updated event but my computer remain ignorant of the change. What's going on

I found a fairly inefficient workaround but it works, if anyone is interested.
This will create a list of specific events and tasks and email them.
Automator:
Find iCal Events (specify criteria)
New TextEdit Document
Find iCal To Dos (specify criteria)
Set Contents of TextEdit Document (Append)
Get Contents of TextEdit Document
New Mail Message
Send Outgoing Messages
(Textedit document to Trash)

I haven't added events but am getting "This calendar is unreadable. No events have been added to your iCal calendar"

I recently started getting the message "This calendar is unreadable. No events have been added to your iCal calendar". However, I typically add my events by typing them myself either on my MacBook Pro or my iPhone. I don't import from outside sources. I don't know if it's related or just coincidental that around the same time, events that I add to my MacBook Pro are not syncing to my iPhone, but the events added by iPhone seem to appear on my MacBook Pro and my MiniMac. Is there a way to find the event that is being referenced in this error message??

iPhone:
Plug in your iPhone
Go to iTunes > Your iPhone > Info and ensure that calendars is not checked off to sync -- if you are using MobileMe to sync, this option should not be checked
On both Macs:
1.) Go to Apple > System Preferences > MobileMe > Sync and remove the check Mark for calendars. With the new MobileMe calendar system there is no need to have this checked. Close the MobileMe window once this is complete.
2.) Open iCal and then go to iCal > Preferences > Accounts and remove the MobileMe account from here with the minus sign.
3.) Go to iCal > Quit iCal
4.) Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
5.) Open iCal and go to iCal > Preferences > Accounts
-- If the MobileMe Account is already here remove it again and then re-add it being very careful to use the correct name and password (for your 10.5 system follow these steps for re-adding: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4330)
-- If the MobileMe account is not already here, add it in.
iCal will download your calendars from the MobileMe server. Watch and see if you get the error message. If it completes the download (little spinning gear stops spinning next to the MobileMe calendar) go ahead and add a new uniquely named event to one of your MobileMe calendars on both computers and see if it syncs between.
Let us know what happens.

"iCal can't read this calendar file. No events have been added to your iCal calendar."

How do I deal with this error message-"iCal can’t read this calendar file. No events have been added to your iCal calendar." ? .ics vs .vcs?
Thanks

Greetings,
What version of the Mac OS and what version of iCal are you running?
Are you using MobileMe calendars (or any other server based calendars like Google) in your iCal?
While you answer those questions you can try the following troubleshooting:
1. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal 1 at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
---NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
Once the computer is back up and running open iCal and test.
Hope that helps.

ICal List view doubling and tripling events on iphone... HELP!

List view worked great for the first month and then 2 recurring events started doubling. In the past week events started tripling. In the other views and on my desktop events are listed correctly, it is only in the list view.
I don't know what is going on and can't find any info on it... am I the only one with this problem?
I really like list view but it's driving me crazy to the point that I can't use it. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!!

Solution here thanks to Allan Sampson:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2258232&tstart=0
Message was edited by: jeremy in new york
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