Can see events in a subscribed calendar

Both my wife and I have published out calendars to a server and then subscribed to each others calendar. There were no errors during the publish/subscribe process and each others calendar shows up in the calendar list under Subscribed. However, she sees none of my ical events and I only see some of hers. I have the auto updated set for 15 minutes and I also tried refreshing each calendar, no luck. Any idea's on what is wrong or what I should check?
Thanks for any help.

Like the original poster, I'd like to view events as a simple list. A solution is given in this thread but it does not completely provide what I would like.
I would additionally like to have the option to sort the collapsed list of events. Specifically, I would like options to choose sort alphabetically or by date, ascending or descending. The collapsed events list in the photos view seems to be hardwired to display events chronologically.
I am aware that in events view, event tiles can be sorted in the way that I want. However, it is the simple, collapsed list of events that I would like to sort.
Are there any 3rd party iPhoto companion apps that can read my iPhoto library and give me a more controllable view of my events list?

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Can't see event titles in subscribed calendar

My wife publishes an iCal calendar from iCal at home, and I subscribe to it in iCal my laptop. I've done this for years, thus improving marital harmony, but a couple of months ago I stopped being able to see the titles of the events. My laptop calendar still gets updated event entries on specific days and times, but nothing has a title.
At home, I tried copying and renaming the calendar, then subscribing to the new one, and it didn't work.
I'm running iCal 2.0.5 on my 10.4.11 laptop, and we've got an older system at home.
Any thoughts on how to fix? Thanks.

I suspect you might be right (although I would have expected that the lack of the option would have meant publication of more of the data rather than less). I'm afraid I don't have systems with either of those versions to be able to delve any deeper.
What you don't mention, and might be worth a shot is:
stop publishing the source, delete the subscription and start over.

I want to see events on my iphone calendar that I had from a year ago, but my events only go back 6 months even when I go into settings and put all events

I want to see events that I had a year ago on my iphone calendar, but they only go back 6 months and if I go to settings and choose "all events" then nothing shows up as an event!!

Are your contacts stored in an MS Exchange server, in iCloud, or some other source? Setting the Sync to less than All Events should not delete events, but only stop showing them on your device. However, Outlook also has a setting to actually delete events older than a certain date. Have you checked that?
If you log in to iCloud.com (and you are syncing with iCloud) what do you see? Whatever is there is all you can get on the iPhone, unless you can restore from another source.
I also suggest enabling iCloud Backup (settings/icloud - Storage and Backup). This will create a new backup any time your phone is connected to power and WiFi, so you will always have a current backup, painlessly.

Copy an event from a subscribed calendar.

I have a number of subscribed calendars (sporting events, holidays, etc.). I usually leave these disabled, as they clutter up my default view which is set to "Month".
What I would like to do is copy and paste individual events to my own calendar that I might be attending. Or, drag this event information to mail or other document.
Unfortunately, this option is not allowed for subscribed calendars. Possibly I am missing something?

Apple Iceman,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Works for me with the subscriptions that I use.
Unfortunately, this option is not allowed for subscribed calendars.
Could your elaborate how you came to that conclusion? I used keyboard shortcuts, and menu commands to effect a copy/paste.
Or, drag this event information to mail or other document.
I have determined that dragging will not work.

How can i see events on my mac calendar as well in mobilme

I created a calendar on my mac and i want to be able to see it on my phone as well, what should I do ? it doesn't seem to sync

In order to sync you need the full version of MobileMe, not the free 'Find My iPhone' version; and you have to have subscribed to MobileMe before June 6th as new accounts can no longer be created. Syncing will be included in iCloud, due to be rolled out during the autumn.
The upgrade to the new MobileMe calendar produces different results, and different problems, with different versions of OSX.
Lion: the 'Calendar sync' checkbox has been removed from System Preferences>MobileMe>Sync as iCal no longer uses this method to sync and it's therefore redundant. Calendar 'syncing' (actually iCal reads the calendars from the MobileMe server) is now handled in a new Preference Pane, 'Mail, Contacts & Calendars' - please see this Apple Tech Note for instructions on setting this up:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4758
If you have upgraded to Lion and are having trouble syncing you should try removing your login details and re-entering them.
Snow Leopard: during the upgrade process your iCal calendars should be moved to MobileMe (this can take some time and you have to wait for it to happen). Once done, your iCal reads the calendars from MobileMe so any changes made in either place will be visible immediately. If this has not happened then this Apple Tech Note provides instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3397
Leopard: when the upgrade is completed iCal on Leopard will not be able to see the MobileMe calendars until an additional process is carried out, detailed in this Apple Tech Note:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4330
Tiger: iCal on Tiger cannot read the MobileMe calendars, period. The only workaround is to upgrade to Leopard, or Snow Leopard if possible (Intel Mac required).

Trying to fix my rss feed for resubmitting, I can see cover art and subscribe but don't see my episodes.

I've submitted my RSS feed and it came back with an error. I was able to fix the problem and can now see my cover art and subscribe to my podcast, but the episode is not there for me to listen to. My feed comes back ok on the feed testers. So I'm not quite sure what the problem is.
Here is my feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/TsCfT
Im not the most tech savvy person and it took a lot for me to get it to where its at now. Any help would be great full thanks.

There is no file at the address you give for your feed, probably you've mistyped it.
You've fallen over a bug in the automated part of the submissions process whereby you are told a feed has already been submitted even if it was subsequently rejected or removed. I'm afraid the workaround is indeed to change the title (the name of your podcast) slightly - you can change it back once accepted provided doing so does not change the feed URL. If you can change the feed filename, and hence its URL, this is also a good idea, as is changing the URL in the 'link' tag (this can easily be changed back afterwards).

Can't group personal & subscribed calendars?

In Mac OS 10.4, I created a calendar group which contained (1) a calendar created and managed by me for work-related events, and (2) a subscribed calendar created and managed by a colleague. I then published the combined group calendar online for my personal use.
Under Mac OS 10.5, I can no longer group a personal calendar and a subscribed calendar. This means I'll have to recreate every single event in the subscribed calendar if I want it to show up in my personal "work" calendar.
Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!

I have the exact same problem.
This is a REAL problem and a major deception with iCal / Leopard.
This way of splitting "personal" and "subscribed" calendars is not smart. Why ?
We should keep the ability to group subscribed AND personal calendars into a same group of calendars. Maybe via the ical prefs ?
I hope somebody at Apple will take care of this.

Can't see the "plus" sign on calendar and reminders after ios5 update

Since I have update my iphone 4 I can see the "+" sign on the calendar and also on the reminder app. Also when I go to settings and into mail / calendars the phone screen tends to freeze! I have restored the phone twice but that has not solved the problem.
Any solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Was thinking if I want to redownload the ios5 update and reload / restore. Thanks.

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

HOW TO SYNC IPHONE TO A "SUBSCRIBED CALENDAR"

I have successfully linked my GMAIL calendar to my iCAL calendar on Mobileme. I find this very useful and gives me the most flexibility. I can add events and merge other calendars (holidays etc) using Gmail but am still able to use the iCal on the iPhone which has the best interface.
HOWEVER, the linked calendar appears as a "subscribed calendar" on my mobileme page. When i SYNC this to my iPhone this subscribed calendar does NOT appear.
Is there any resolution in the works for this problem?????
The only reference i can find on apple support leaves the problem UNRESOLVED. See below.
THanks so much
Mac OS X 10.5: Subscribed calendars are listed in their own section of the iCal calendar list. When syncing subscribed calendars to MobileMe, the calendar information and settings for the calendar is synced, but all of the downloaded events are not. This is done to help streamline the syncing process with MobileMe, as it prevents syncing redundant information to other computers with an Internet connection.

The problem has still not been resolved. You cannot sync subscription calendars to the iPhone or iPod Touch at this time.

Ical 5.0.1: Subscribed calendar already exists (phantom calendar)

So it looks like a few people have this problem but no one has reponded with working answer. I thought I would try again. So my particular issue is that I am trying to re-subscribe to a calendar that I have previously deleted but iCal is telling me that the calendar already exists. I don't see the calendar listed in my subscribed calendars listing anywhere or anywhere else for that matter so I am trying to understand how I can completely remove this subscribed calendar so that I can re-subscribe to it.
I have 2 other subscribed calendars that I have deleted and re-subscribed to and didn't have any issues. Just this one calendar. I did noticed that I was using icloud to sync my subscribed calendars to my icloud.com account but I have removed that setting and tried to re-subscribe again but no luck.
Is there a way that I can delete the phantom calendar either or reset my iCal complete so that I can set it up as if it were a first time launch?
The reset might be the best approach if it can be done since my subscribed calendars are also not respecting the colors that I have assigned them (they are all grey).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all,
I'm still having this issue and would really like any suggestions if anyone knows of any. Basically, I need to view my calendar that doesn't have any events so I can change the password and get any new events for it.
Because the calendar app does not show the calendar in the calendar listing if it doesn't have any events (not smart btw), I don't have a way to change its information. And attempting to re-subscribe gives me the error that the calendar already exists.
Is there a way that I can view "all" calendars even if they are hidden or don't have any events scheduled for them so that I can change the login credentials? This issue is on the calendar app version 6.0 build 1645 on my mac os x laptop.
I know there has to be a way to do this but I just can't seem to find it and googling is not turning up any results. Even searching my my keychain for the login information and the systems preferences has not shown me anything.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Reasons why iCal Server can't be my company's calendar server

I want to believe. I don't want to use Exchange. But after testing iCal server and iCal 3 for a few days, I've found it's not going to cut it for us- a 60 person creative agency. Here's why:
-There's no concept of "blocks time". So, let's say I don't want the office to know that I'm going to a job interview, but I do need to block out the time so nobody tries to schedule me to a meeting. In other systems, I can make a private event, and have it block time. In iCal, locally stored events (which are therefore private), are invisible to the network. I can't have my time reserved without announcing why. Sneaky code phrases are possible, but shouldn't be needed.
Similarly, I can't define if an "all day" event keeps me busy or not. I'd be inclined to list a week's vacation as an all day event starting on Monday and ending on Friday. But for co-workers to see that I'm gone in scheduling, I have to list it as an event from 8A on Monday to 5P on Friday.
-There isn't any group support. Perhaps I have a project team of the same 6 people. There's no way to group those 6 under a heading, and check their meeting availability all at once- you can only invite individuals. The Address Panel has 3 of the 4 headings of Directory.app, but no Groups. Every time this project team gets together, I have to add the same people.
I would think I could make a group in Address Book, but that's not working.
-Delegation is all or nothing. I can't delegate that co-workers can see one of my public calendars, but not the other.
-The Availability Panel can't show what events are blocking someone's time. You have to have them turned on in the iCal view to know that.
Please, please tell me there are just things I don't get about iCal3/iCal server, and if I just did things differently, I'd be OK. Is there something I'm missing, or is this really how it works?
(This was also submitted to apple.com/feedback, and [email protected])

Maximilian Reiss wrote:
Hi - haven`t looked yet at point 1 and 4, but also dislike point 2 and 3. Actually, afaik point 2 (individual delegation) is just a iCal (client) GUI limitation. I think the server would support it.
Group support regarding the client side is more or less there, just not in the new address panel. If you type the group name in the invitee field while editing an event you get the group.
I hope you filed bugreports for that at bugreport.apple.com
OK, here's another one. Window: Address Panel magically changes format for reasons I can't see. When I started this thread, I was in "Open Directory Lookup" mode of Address Panel. When you're here, you're only pulling addresses from OD.
When I returned to playing with iCal this morning, Address Panel was bringing back Address Book entries. When it's this way, yes, you can have a group defined in Address Book, and use that group as a shortcut to invite multiple people.
During the process of experimenting, Address Panel somehow reverted to Open Directory lookups. I'm not clear what controls this behavior.
So, yes, you can use Window: Address Book to pull up AddressBook.app, and drag a group from there into your invitee window. But is there a more integrated way (where leaving iCal isn't required) to invite a local group?

How to get SUBSCRIBED calendars synched on iPhone/MobileMe

Create, and place this Apple script in your Appliations folder
Instructions follow the script...
-- iCal Duplicator 2.0
-- MobileMe Push Sync with iCal does not currently support susbcribed calendars. This has disappointed some like
-- myself, who rely extensively on subscribed calendars. This kludgy solution copies events from a subscribed calendar
-- to a local calendar. Set your calendar names in the script, then run the script on a weekly/daily basis or manually to
-- update your local copy/copies based on the subscribed calendar.
-- Support for copying from multiple calendars has been added. You'll need to enter the source and destination names as
-- pairs. If you want multiple subscribed calendars copied into one local calendar, you can enter the local calendar names
-- multiple times as I have for the "Combined - Local" calendar.
-- Christian Lindemer, July 15th, 2008 {macosxhints (a) dethbunny (.) net}
-- * * * Edit values to match actual calendar names * * *
-- The subscribed calendars
property sourceCalendarNames : {"Davidcopy", "Othercopy"}
-- The blank local calendar(s) to copy in to, in the same order as the source calendars
property destinationCalendarNames : {"Davidcopy", "Other"}
-- how many days to go back - the more you add, the slower the script runs.
property oldEntryDays : 1
on run
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try
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--this throws an error if there is no calendar with the given name, thus checking the calendar's validity.
set testCal to (the first calendar whose title is the testName)
end repeat
repeat with testName in destinationCalendarNames
set testCal to (the first calendar whose title is the testName)
end repeat
end tell
on error
--if a name can't be found, alert user and halt.
calendarNotFound(testName)
return --this effectively quits the script
end try
repeat with destName in destinationCalendarNames
clearEvents(destName)
end repeat
set calendarCount to 1
--repeat through all calendar names
repeat with sourceName in sourceCalendarNames
--get the calendar names and pass them to the copyEvents function
set destinationName to item calendarCount of destinationCalendarNames
copyEvents(sourceName, destinationName)
set calendarCount to (calendarCount + 1)
end repeat --repeat through all calendar pairs
end run
on calendarNotFound(notFoundName)
display alert "Calendar named " & notFoundName & " was not found in iCal. Please edit the script to match your calendars."
end calendarNotFound
on clearEvents(destCalName)
tell application "iCal"
--Clear the destination calendar
set destCalendar to (the first calendar whose title is the destCalName)
set calendarEvents to (events of destCalendar) -- get the destination calendar's event list
repeat with myEvent in calendarEvents -- delete each existing event
delete myEvent
end repeat
end tell
end clearEvents
on copyEvents(sourceCalName, destCalName)
tell application "iCal"
set sourceCalendar to (the first calendar whose title is the sourceCalName)
set destCalendar to (the first calendar whose title is the destCalName)
set calendarEvents to (events of sourceCalendar) -- get the calendar's event list
repeat with myEvent in calendarEvents -- repeat for each item found in the source event list
--Don't bother with old events
if start date of myEvent > ((current date) - oldEntryDays * days) then --event is in future, or within prefs for old entries
-- gather relevant details of event to create new event with
set eventStart to start date of myEvent
set eventEnd to end date of myEvent
set eventAllDay to allday event of myEvent
set eventSummary to summary of myEvent
-- create event in destination calendar with details of subscribed event
tell destCalendar
make new event at end with properties {summary:eventSummary, start date:eventStart, end date:eventEnd, allday event:eventAllDay}
end tell
end if --if not older than 'oldEntryDays' days ago
end repeat --iterate through entries in source calendar
end tell
end copyEvents
Let's say you have a subscribed calendar named "David"
Go into iCal and create a new calendar ("on my Mac") named "Davidcopy" with the same color as your subscribed calendar.
Repeat for any other subscribed cals you want to sync to iPhone.
Open the CopyCal script
Edit the first line of (uncommented) code which starts with property sourceCalendarNames:
Change the names of the cals in this list to match the subscribed cals you wish to copy
Edit the list on the next line to match the NEW cals you created ("Davidcopy" etc)
Next look at iCal and uncheck the subscribed cals.
Run the script and watch the copying take place.
Now to automate this, set up an event everyday (as often as you like). Preferably this can be in another calendar you don't publish - so everyone doesn't have it cluttering their view of your cal.
For example I have events named "sync" at 9:30am and 5pm every weekday. For the alarm, use "Run Script" and choose the CopyCal.scpt.

on copyEvents(sourceCalName, destCalName)
tell application "iCal"
set sourceCalendar to (the first calendar whose title is the sourceCalName)
set destCalendar to (the first calendar whose title is the destCalName)
set calendarEvents to (events of sourceCalendar) -- get the calendar's event list
repeat with myEvent in calendarEvents -- repeat for each item found in the source event list
--Don't bother with old events
if start date of myEvent > ((current date) - oldEntryDays * days) then --event is in future, or within prefs for old entries
-- gather relevant details of event to create new event with
set eventStart to start date of myEvent
set eventEnd to end date of myEvent
set eventAllDay to allday event of myEvent
set eventSummary to summary of myEvent
set eventRecurrence to recurrence of myEvent
-- create event in destination calendar with details of subscribed event
tell destCalendar
make new event at end with properties {summary:eventSummary, start date:eventStart, end date:eventEnd, allday event:eventAllDay, recurrence:eventRecurrence}
end tell
end if --if not older than 'oldEntryDays' days ago
end repeat --iterate through entries in source calendar
end tell
end copyEvents

A way to sync Subscribed Calendars

I created an Automator Workflow that daily copies my subscribed calendars (company calendar) to local calendars. When I saved the workflow, I saved it as an iCal plugin with an alarm that goes off every day at 12:30 AM.
To create the Workflow, download the Yellow Camp actions installer at…
http://automatorworld.com/archives/yellow-camp-ical-actions/
Once the actions are installed into the Automator library you can create the workflow.
I have used the following:
Find Events in iCal (a subscribed calender)
Move iCal Events (into a local calendar that you name)
You can repeat the above steps for a many subscribed calendars that you want to sync.
Now my subscribed calendars appear at MobileMe and my iPhone.

this is great and what i've been looking for but....
how do you keep it from duplicating events?
I just ran it after i had copied an event to my local calendar and when it ran it duplicated the event. So i had an event from my subscribed calendar on my local calendar twice.

How do I add an event to my iphone calendar?

I'm trying to add an appointment to my iphone5 calendar.   I cannot do it , no matter how hard I try.   I can see events added from my Google calendar, which is nice, but it would be even nicer if I could just whip out my phone at the dentist and add the next date.   Right now I just have to remember to add it from gmail from my computer when I get home.    S000000 frustrating!

Thanks! Gmail was checked, but the phone home was not.    So now I can get it to appear on the phone, though it doesn't seem to sych to computer -- at least not quickly.
But being able to put it on the phone itself solves my immediate problem, and I'll work on the synching issue, which is well-documented elsewhere.
And thanks for being online today -- I was about to throw that phone through the window!

HT4865 How can you use find my iphone or find my friends on a ipod for a kid (daughter) but restrict who can see your personal calenders on their device. I realize you can turn off icloud. If ipod is lost, others can get your data by turning on icloud

I just purchased an ipod for my daughter. Since she is only 7 y/o she cannot create an icloud account. Therefore, I had to use my apple ID to create an icloud account on her ipod. I would like to have find my iphone and friend finder on her ipod for tracking purposes. The only problem is that all of my personal calender, notes, reminders etc get transferred automatically to her ipod which I don't want.
I turned off the icloud calender, notes, reminders etc on her device so that my data doesn't get transferred to her device now. My biggest concern is that if she loses her ipod someone could turn the icloud function back on and automatically get my data.
Is there anyway to be able use the tracking features yet protect my icloud from being turned on by a thief?

Password locks, Restrictions password protected or not anyone who gets your iPod can restore it to Factory Settings/New iPod. This will completely disable Find My iPhone so that the iPod can no longer be tracked. It is not a good idea to not use the lock password, because if someone get your iPod they can see all of your contacts, calendar entries email, email passwords, etc.

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