Duplicate Birthday Calendar SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOT duplicate reminders/entries)

NOTE:
+This is a DIFFERENT problem than the folks with duplicate iCal entries or duplicate reminders. For that, please either go to http://www.nhoj.co.uk/icaldupedeleter/ to download John Masey's iCal Dupe Deleter Applescript or go to one of the many forums on that topic.+
MY PROB:
Somehow, my *_iCal has hundreds of individual Subscriptions to "Birthdays"._* That is, I have over 800 Subscriptions.
*How can I remove all of them so that I do not have to individually delete them?*
*How can I avoid this in the future?*
I am a MobileMe user and I sync iCal between a PowerBook G4 and an iMac (PowerPC) G5. Both computers now operate on Leopard, but there was a long period where my PowerBook - my primary computer - was on Leopard while my iMac was on Tiger.
I already tried iCal/Preferences/ShowBirthdaysCalendar, <turn off><turn on> (I also tried variations of on/off, off/on, on/close window, off/close window, etc.)
+Help me, Obi-Wan. You're my only hope.+
Message was edited by: WBaggins

Why not post in the iCal forum area?
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=166

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My iphone duplicates the birthday entries on the calendar. The iPhone info tab in iTunes seems to have the option to synch Birthdays from the calendar even after i deselect all options to synch birthdays. *Is there a way to delete the Birthdays option from the iTunes:iPhone:info tab?* If I select the synch Birthdays tab, it puts the Birthdays Calendar on my iphone, but not on my iCal. If I choose to synch Birthdays in iCal I have it on iCal and on the iPhone. There are then two "Birthdays" options to select from the iTunes:iPhone:info tab.

That solution didn't solve the problem for me. I too had Birthdays showing up twice in the "Sync... Selected Calendars" list. What worked for me was disabling syncing of all info in iTunes and .Mac sync, quitting all applications and deleting the following folders:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/
The tilde character (~) signifies your user account's home folder. Once I did that, I attempted to resync the info with the iPhone, but I found the contacts, calendars and Mail accounts lists empty as though there was nothing to sync with. So I opened Address Book and tried to sync again and suddenly all the contact groups appeared in the list. Launched iCal and tried to sync again and suddenly all the calendars appeared. Same thing with the mail accounts. Not sure if launching the seperate apps was necessary, iTunes may just have needed a bit of time to rebuild the links to the application data. Everything is working fine again and this time, I don't have duplicate Birthday calendars.
Just as a side note, those folders I deleted I believe contain cached information related to synchronization, and I believe the problem stemmed from corrupt or duplicate information which was resolved by deleting them and forcing iTunes/.mac/Sync Services to rebuild them. There is no important data stored in either folder that won't get recreated by the apps in question, although it's probably a good idea that you do a complete sync of both .mac and your iPods/iPhone before deleting them. In my case, the Mac I was using contained the 'master' databases for all apps, so I didn't hesitate to tell .mac to replace it's contents with the information on my Mac. Proceed with caution if you have multiple Macs that may not be in sync with each other.

Error message: "The Birthdays calendar does not support events."

Error message: "The Birthdays calendar does not support events." pops up 100 times..probably as many times as I have birthdays in my contacts....very irritating...

Well mother of christmas Apple, what the **** is this?! Please help us get this off the screen

Duplicate Birthday calendar entries in Notification Center

I have many contacts' birthdays saved with their contact info. This created two calendars: one "Birthdays" calendar in iCal on my Mac, and one "Birthdays" calendar in my iPhone's Calendar app. I want to keep each of these in their respective places.
Here's my problem:
Both show up in Notification Center. For example, my friend Bryan's birthday is tomorrow, and it shows twice in the Notification center (once, pulled from the iOS Calendar; the other, synced from iCal).
I've disabled the imported calendar from displaying in the Calendar app (so I only see iOS's "native" entry listed on my calendar). But it still shows both in Notification Center! Any ideas how I can get rid of the duplicate NC entry, without deleting the calendar itself from either source?

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Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you want to delete a calendar. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you isolate or resolve the issue.
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Both the iPhone Calendar and the MacBook's iCal create a "Birthday" calendar, based on entries in Contacts and/or Address Book (In iCal Preferences, "show birthday calendar" must be selected).
I have an entry in my contact list with a birthdate of September 4, 1932.
I cannot get that birthday to appear on my iPhone's Birthday Calendar. It does appear on the iCal Birthday calendar and - believe it or not, it even appears on the MobileMe Birthday Calendar. It just will not appear on the iPhone's Birthday Calendar.
That is the only entry I can't see on my iPhone's Birthday Calendar. I have also tried to create fictitious contacts with that birthdate and they do not appear either.
I am requesting any other user (or users) to create a Address Book entry with the same birthdate and report whether it will display on the iPhone's Birthday Calendar after a sync.
I am using the latest Mac, iTunes and iPhone software.
Thanks in advance to any users who respond.

Hi Doug,
I have a calendar labeled "US Holidays Apple." It does accurately show the holidays on my iPhone and iCal. I am not sure about MM, since I have pretty much given up on that for awhile (too frustrating). I am not sure where i obtained the holiday calendar, but it seems more reliable, on the iPhone, than the Google linked holiday calendar I was using.
The specific birthdate cited is the only one that I can't get to sync. All the other birthdays and anniversaries appear to sync just fine (MM, iCal and iPhone). I suspect that it may be a bug, as suggested by another forum member (dates beyond certain [apple secret] date won't sync.
As an aside, regarding the thread you gave birth to, "...you are not alone), I have pretty much accepted that the iPhone is a POS phone (but a wonderful device). I suspect that is because they went with the low bidder for the radio component and WE got what they paid for. The only other alternative is that Apple designed or implemented the antennae poorly.
I live 1.72 miles from a 3G site and my dbm is typically -97 to -113 on 3G (week 41 build).
I am hoping the next iPhone will have a decent radio. I certainly will await reports from users prior to upgrading to the next version, since that is the only disappointing element of the device.
Your response was the first hint I had that 2.2 was on the near horizon. Glad to know that, though I do wish Apple would be more open about the changes offered in their updates.
Great to hear from you.
HC

Stock calendar app not showing GCalendar entries

This is in regard to the stock calendar app' which comes with the Samsung Fascinate. I have all calendars selected as viewable too.
I do like I did on my old phone and also make entries into the phone local calendar "My calendar". These events show in the time-grid-listing-location for their time of day. I now also have combined those along with GCalendar entries.
Googles' do show as a dog-ear on the by Month (for their day), and, also on the Week, but never in the time-grid-listing. "My calendar" entries "DO" show in the time listings.
How do I get the Google calendar (which, by the way, is synch'ed ... I know this also because the GCalendar entries show as a mass-listing at the top of a Day listing, but, not on the time-grid-listing, and, notifications via a GCal' entry work fine too) to show also? Can they not, and/or, do I need to go to the market and get a better calendar app'?
Thanks in advance! Not adverse to abandoning the stock calendar in favor of a much better/robust market-app'. Curious which of a potential multitude is a/thee pick-of-the-litter.

I am almost positive the "MyCalendar" is local-only (only stored on the phone). I have not looked for where it is stored on the phone (either internal mem' or the SD card). I suspect you can find out there the naming convention of that file if you need to back it up. I fear that hard-reset.
I roll 3 GMAIL accts plus the 1 local calendar (for stupid little reminders only). In the new 2.2 Android OS, there appears much better view-ing ability between them, or all, and turning certain ones on and off manually (open the stock calendar app', hit the menu button, hit settings, and then hit calendars (bunch of checkboxes for all of your calendars, even those subscribed to via google)).
I don't know if you can pick a default calendar - mine always automatically chooses MyCalendar, and, once an event is created, you are stuck with that event in that calendar (little bogus).

Birthday calendar will not sync to iPhone

I have birthdays entered in Address Book on my Mac. I've enable show birthday calendar. Birthday calendar appears in the side bar as a subscribed calendar. The birthdates display in iCal on my Mac. Birthday calendar appears on my list of calendars on my phone but the birthdates will not display on the calendar. I've tried allowing MobileMe to sync and I've also turned off syncing calendars with MobileMe on the phone and tried syncing directly to the Mac. The birthdays used to display on the iPhone calendar but now they will not.
Does anyone know what I need to do to get birthdays to display on the iPhone calendar.
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You can do a forum search. This has been asked before. The search bar is on the right hand side of this page.
Here are a few threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8778768&#8778768
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8763225&#8763225
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8790176&#8790176
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Multiple Birthday SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOT duplicate reminders/entries)

My iCal has hundreds of individual Subscriptions to "Birthdays".
NOTE:
+This is a DIFFERENT problem than the folks with duplicate iCal entries or duplicate reminders. For that, please either download John Masey's iCal Dupe Deleter Applescript at http://www.nhoj.co.uk/icaldupedeleter/ or go to one of the many forums on that topic.+
MY PROB:
Somehow, my *_iCal has hundreds of individual Subscriptions to "Birthdays"._* That is, I have over 800 Subscriptions in my iCal's left-hand column, listed under "Subscriptions".
*How can I remove all of them so that I do not have to individually delete them?*
*How can I avoid this in the future?*
I already tried iCal/Preferences/ShowBirthdaysCalendar, <turn off><turn on> (I also tried variations of on/off, off/on, on/close window, off/close window, etc.)
I am a MobileMe user and I sync iCal between a PowerBook G4 and an iMac (PowerPC) G5. Both computers now operate on Leopard, but there was a long period where my PowerBook - my primary computer - was on Leopard while my iMac was on Tiger.
+Help me, Obi-Wan. You're my only hope.+

Hi WBaggins,
Have you tried backing up, then restoring your iCal database? The import back into iCal should clean up the data.
In iCal go to the File menu and select 'Back up iCal...'. Save the file to your Desktop. In the Finder double click the backup (.icbu) file. iCal will ask if you're sure. It may also ask if you want to push the changes to MobileMe - say yes. Now wait.... how long depends on the number of events etc. you have but a few minutes is average.
Let me know how it goes.
Best wishes
John M

Why are calendar subscriptions not up to date?

When I select Subscriptions from within iCal, the available options are dated 2010 and 2011, even in the Most recent list.
Why are more current calendars not available?
Also, I have downloaded the US Holiday calendar before. It updates the holidays every year except Easter. However, the site does not
offer a Christian holiday calendar except a link that is way out of date. What gives?

Thanks for the input. I had been searching the wrong words. I never thought to search for subscriptions.
Thanks again.

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Hi folks, I'm trying to subscribe to a shared Google Calendar through the ICAL (.ics) protocol.
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I downloaded the .ics file from the URL and viewed it in a text editor, and it appears to contain all the information, with the start/end dates and times, etc. It's just not showing up in iCal's calendar views.
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I have subscribed via iCloud to some gmail calendars that are not updating on our iPhones. They update in Calendar on the mac just fine, but not on the phones.
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