Disappearing events in iCal

A week ago all events in my iCal display disappeared. I restored them from a Time Machine backup. They disappeared again. I restored them again, then saved the .icbu file. They disappeared again. I restored them from the .icbu file. They disappeared again. I signed out of iCloud, turned off wifi, restored all the events, saved the .icbu file, turned on wifi, signed back in to iCloud, re-imported all the events and they disappeared again. I've tried everything I can find that's recommended and nothing works. iCloud seems to have a version of iCal that has saved only events I've entered since this horror began, and that version overrules anything I do on my iMac, no matter how many times I export and re-import. I can think now of only one solution: ditch iCloud from my life. Is this really what it's come to?

For the many, many people with this problem I want to repeat my advice that this solution : http://chasingaftermoonbeams.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/restoring-lost-ical-events-a nd.html
has worked for me where dozens of others didn't. It's as if the deletion of everything gets rid of things that otherwise cause trouble. I don't think this course of action is any more complicated or difficult than any other, but its comprehensiveness seems to get rid of all the rubbish that's sending the system crazy. Fingers crossed (yes, life with Mac OS has become that primitive!).

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