Deleting an iCal event

I entered an iCal event in my calendar...how do I delete it...seems simple enough, but?

You are welcome...glad to help a fellow Fred.
Since you are new to Mac OS, you may find Mac 101: iCal helpful.

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I cannot delete an iCal event on my Iphone.

I cannot delete an iCal event on my Iphone. It does not have the edit button at the top of the screen.
The event does not show up in iCal on my Mac or on my iCloud.
One of these is a reoccuring event.

The only other thing I can think of is to try deleting the entire calendar from your iPhone and then sync your iCal calendar to your phone again. This needs to be done carefully. I would begin by backing up your iCal calendar on your mac for safekeeping by opening iCal, then going to File>Export>Export, save this on your desktop. Then do the following:
On your phone go to Settings>iCloud and turn Calendars to Off. You should get a prompt asking you whether to keep or remove the calendar data from your phone. Choose to remove it.
Without connecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to iTunes>Preferences, go to the Devices tab check "Prevent...from automatically syncing".
Now connect your phone and, as before, go to the Info tab of your iTunes sync settings. Confirm that you have checked to Sync Calendars with iCal, then further down under Advanced: Replace information on this iPhone check Calendars, then click Apply at the bottom to sync your phone.
This should transfer your iCal calendar to your iPhone, hopefully this time without the problem event. Check your phone to confirm that this was successful, then you can then go back to iTunes Preferences and re-enable automatic syncing.

Shouldn't I get a confirmation dialog when I delete an iCal event?

Shouldn't I get a confirmation dialog when I delete an iCal event? When I select an event and hit the delete key, the event is deleted without a confirmation dialog. Aren't we supposed to get a confirmation dialog? I thought I used to get one. This is not good because I sometimes accidentally hit the delete key when working in iCal and the event is gone and I didn't notice that it happened.

Don't know about 10.8, but in 10.6 you don't get one for an ordinary event.

Can't delete an ical event

i schedule an event in ical to "never" expire. i had set the event to remind me everyday until i had performed the task. once i was ready to delete the event it would not let me. what would happen is it would let me delete the evet but would show back up in 3 to 4 seconds. i've tried changing the end date and that didn't help, it would default back to the original setting.
however, i can delete them one at a time, that does work, however i need the "delete all future events" to work. any suggestions?
thanks

From this page:
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37098?hl=en
Contacts' birthdays and eventsWhen you subscribe to this calendar, all of your contacts' birthdays will display as All Day events in Google Calendar. Data is pulled from Google Contacts, which you can access via http://www.google.com/contacts (or, if you have a Gmail account, click Contacts from your inbox).
Have you tried removing the date from your Gmail contacts?
Best wishes
John M

Ical sync with ios5 deleted laptop ical events

When I synced my iphone which has the new ios 5 with ical, for some reason this time it kept all my events on my iphone but deleted the events after the present date on my laptop calender. Does anyone know how to fix this??

I forgot to mention that this is an all-day event
pete

Ical Help needed- can not delete a four year ical event

I accidentally sent an ical event that lasts for four years and now I he cant delete it and it is taking up more and more memory on his phone as it is repeating infinitly every day?? Have tried restore but it still syncs with icloud. is there an easy solution?

First you have to know which calendar your client saved the event to. Usually by default it saves to the native Calendar app. If that is the case, he should be able to log into iCloud and delete the event (decline the invitation) from there. If your client saved the event to an external calendar that he has synched to his iPhone (Yahoo, Google, etc.) he may be able to delete it or decline it from there, which should in turn remove it from the device.
The logic here is that only the creator of the event invitation can edit the event details, so that if they do that, all of the recipients of the invitation will get the updated information automatically. I agree it leaves a lot to be desired to stick things on people's calendars that they can't at the very least just simply delete if not edit. I will no longer accept invitations directly on my device in order to avoid this. I will add the event to my calendar manually from now on.
HTH

Deleting a recurring event in iCal

Situation; iphone 5 recurring event wont delete. looking at same calendar on a synced PC (work) the event is not there at all.
If you are having trouble deleting a recurring event in iCal try this:
on your iphone change the event "alert" or "show as" setting on one of the events in the future. The event that wasn't showing on the PC outlook calendar magically shows up now. delete it from the PC by opening it and choosing the X delete for all occurances (if its asks).
Now open the event in iCal and you should see the Accept Maybe Decline option at the bottom - choose decline. you may have to do this on several dates, but that should delete the event.
Hope this helps.

pedfogog,
... or whoever may find this post in need of assistance as I was.
I just had this same problem and successfully deleted ALL event (past and future)instances by :
1. Click on any instance of the event in the calendar
2. Select "Delete" from the iCal toolbar "Edit" menu.
3. The iCal propmt asked me to choose to delete all or just the one instance.
4. Naturally, select to "Delete all occurrences"
I am running OS 10.6.8 iCal 4.0.4

How can non-visible orphan iCal events be deleted?

Bear with me, this is going to sound very confusing.
I have reported this via the iCal feedback on Apple's Product Feedback main page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
but nothing has changed (not surprising, but more on that later).
My wife publishes her calendar from her computer to MobileMe via iCal (version 3.0.8 on OS X 10.5.8). I subscribe to it on my computer via iCal (version 4.0 on OS X 10.6.1). In her iCal and my iCal, all appears OK. But when I view her published calendar in a web browser (right-click in iCal to "Show Calendar on MobileMe") two orphan all-day events appear (one on 20 October and one on 27 October). And since her calendar appears in my iCal, her calendar appears on my iPhone (OS 3.1.2) AND those two orphan events appear on the iPhone. When the wife logs into her MobileMe account via the web interface and views her calendar, the two orphan events DO NOT appear. Since the two events do not appear to her she can not delete them. But they are cluttering up my iPhone calendar display!
To recap:
The two orphan events appear:
- on my iPhone in the Calendar app
- via a web browser on my Mac
The two orphan events DO NOT appear:
- on wife's iCal
- on wife's MobileMe account
- my iCal via subscription to wife's calendar
The wife did a Sync reset. No change. She unpublished her calendar and I unsubscribed. After waiting 3 days, she published her calendar again, I then re-subscribed. The two orphan events re-appeared but can't be deleted since they don't appear in her iCal or MobileMe account.
So, there are two questions:
1. How does she delete these orphan events since she can not see them?
2. How does my iPhone get them since they don't appear in my iCal and why do they appear via a web browser if they don't appear for her?
I mentioned earlier that I've reported this via Apple's feedback page. I have reported many iCal publish and subscribe problems over the past year. But I have decided that no one at Apple actually ever sees this feedback. Why do I think that? Because, not only have I reported problems with the application, I have also reported problems with the feedback page itself. For example, the latest version of iCal shown on the page is 3.0. How long has 4.0 been out? Also, the page still references ".Mac". Huh? Gee, I thought that was re-branded to MobileMe a long time ago. Since Apple has not updated the feedback page, no one at Apple must be monitoring feedback submitted via those pages, or perhaps they just don't care anymore about their Product Feedback pages. At least, that is the impression they give.
Thanks for the time and any suggestions on how to get the two orphan events to go away. --Mike

Wish I could help.
Instead, I'll simply let you know that you are not alone. The only difference is that I have an orphan calendar that appears on my iPhone.
Said calendar does NOT appear in iCal on my MBP NOR does it appear in Mobile Me.
I do not sync via iTunes.
I would LOVE to know how to delete it as it creates duplicate events for me.

Why have deleted iCal events suddenly reappeared in my calender?

Assistance needed please for an iCal issue on Snow Leopard (iMac).
A bunch of formerly deleted iCal events have suddenly reappeared in iCal. I thought this would be easily resolved by using Time Machine (external HD) to restore the calendar files to when they were workings ok (a couple of days ago). Although this initially appeared to work, all the previously deleted events have suddenly reappeared.
If I was using iCloud I'd assume it was some kind of syncing issue, but I'm not. Least I can rule that out.

Cactus,
Here are two troubleshooting articles which may be helpful for you:
1. iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting
2. iCloud: Resolving duplicate calendars after setting up your calendar application for iCloud Calendar

ICal events being deleted when syncing with Palm Zire 21

I have been syncing my Palm Zire 21 with iCal successfully for over a year with few problems. A few weeks ago I noticed that almost, but not all of the events on both the Palm device and iCal more than three months old were gone. Then, a few weeks later, I noticed that the events suddenly were all back in the iCal application, but not on the Palm device.
But this week, I used HotSync (as usual) to sync iCal and the Palm device, and the events were gone again. Now I am wondering what on Earth I am doing to cause this. I have read the articles about setting up to sync. I double-checked to be sure I have been syncing the way that is outlined in the instructions in the help articles.
I must have missed something vital. I have been backing up my iCal to my .Mac account using Backup. I am thinking that I can restore the iCal events using my last backup. Can I? And how do I keep this from happening again?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10) "OS10.4.10" "iSync 2.4" "iCal 2.0.5" "Hotsync 3.1"

Found the issue for me. The events are not deleted, but filtered in the standard calendar view. The iPhone shows everything as it should. Outlook 2003 has all the events to as seen when going to categories view.
It seems that once events pass on the iPhone and then a sync via iTunes to Outlook 2003 the "All Day Event" field is removed from the calendar entry.
Creating another Day/Week/Month View in outlook 2003 that has a filter to only include calendar entries where the "All Day Event" field "does not exist" will allow viewing the "hidden" past events.
Hopefully this will be fixed VERY SOON.

ICloud displaying deleted iCal events

I set up my iCloud/iCal sync when I updated to iOS5, but my iCloud calendar (and thus my iPhone calendar) is now displaying events I have deleted from iCal on my MacBook Pro. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

I'm getting the same thing. Events that have been deleted from iCal on my G5 are still sent to my iPhone. I've reset the iPhone software, restarted, logged out and in, deleted the iSync history etc - no luck.
Also, events created on my iPhone don't transfer to iCal on my G5.
Obviously this renders the iPhone/iCal combination unreliable as a diary/calendar. What makes this particularly frustrating is that I'm using absolutely standard gear and software. Nothing fancy, no trying to sync to third party equipment or applications. I'm using Leopard 10.5.2, with Apples very own iCal 3.0.2 (1236) and an Apple iPhone with software version 1.1.4 (4A102). So all software up-to-date.
Does anyone have this standard up-to-date setup working?

Deleted iCal events still showing- does iCal 3 help?

I have an iCal in Tiger (iCal 2.0.3) that I publish to co-workers. They subscribe in iCal and it mostly works fine (published through mobile me). Sometimes when I delete and item that is part of a recurring event, it continues to show in the published (subscribed) versions. The only way to fix it, is for my co-workers to delete and re-subscribe to the calendar.
Recently I also began publishing the calendar as a Google Calendar (subscribe to it in Google Calendar and then publish to the world) for some of my co-workers that prefer Google Calendars. Same problem only worse. Deleted events (some not all) continue to show up in the Google Calendar version that are no longer in teh iCal version, even after re-subscribing.
Someone (Ben Kazez of iCal widget fame) suggested that this is a problem with the way iCal 2.0.3 stores events in the calendar and that iCal 3(leopard) fixes this. (he had this problem with his widget).
Can anyone confirm that iCal 3 fixes the problem of deleted events showing in published calendars? I want to be sure this will fix my problem before I go through the hassle of the upgrade.

I'm getting the same thing. Events that have been deleted from iCal on my G5 are still sent to my iPhone. I've reset the iPhone software, restarted, logged out and in, deleted the iSync history etc - no luck.
Also, events created on my iPhone don't transfer to iCal on my G5.
Obviously this renders the iPhone/iCal combination unreliable as a diary/calendar. What makes this particularly frustrating is that I'm using absolutely standard gear and software. Nothing fancy, no trying to sync to third party equipment or applications. I'm using Leopard 10.5.2, with Apples very own iCal 3.0.2 (1236) and an Apple iPhone with software version 1.1.4 (4A102). So all software up-to-date.
Does anyone have this standard up-to-date setup working?

Why does ical delete my past events when all settings indicate that it should not?

All of the boxes, about deleting past events, in ical preferences are unchecked, so I can't figure out why ical deletes my past events. Could it be because of a setting on either my iphone or ipad causing this to happen?

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and called apple support. The solution is as follows:
Most apple users have multiple devices using icloud such as an iPdad, iPhone, and other computers. In my case, I had two computers, two iPads, and one iPhone. After speaking to apple support, I realized that one of my ipad's setting were set to delete events older then 2 weeks. In short, if you are expeirienceing problems with ical deleteing events, you better check all your devices. If just one of them is set wrong in your preferences, you will lose past events. Even check computers you gave to your cildren or other members of the family. You will probably find out that the settings on one of these machines is causing your problems.

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

TS4337 How can I recover all my deleted iCal events?

My children were playing around on the computer, and for some reason, all my iCal events were deleted. I doubt that they purposefully went through all my events and deleted each one. I checked icloud with no luck, it's still an empty calendar. It's the same way on my phone as well.
How do I get all my events back?!

- On your syncing computer go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices and see if you do have a backup, if so restore from that backup. When you sync to iTunes the first step is making a backup
- If you use PhotoStream you may be able to get them fromn yuor steam. See that topic of:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
Note that the backup and PhotoStream only included photos in your iPod's Camera Roll (or Saved Photos) album. Photos synced to the iPod are not included.

Deleting an iCal event

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