How to Restore To Do's or iCal

I almost had a heart attack this morning when something on the computer glitched and it appeared I had lost all my To Do's. No problem, I thought, I'll just enter Time Machine and restore them. Yet when I entered Time Machine (viewing my To Do's in Mail), my To Do's were grayed out – I couldn't click on them to restore them! I opened up iCal and tried the same, but much to my chagrin iCal refused to open up in Time Machine and instead the Finder would appear in front of the iCal window and I would enter Time Machine viewing the Finder.
Luckily, when trying to re-add my To Do's from memory, they all miraculously re-appeared.
My question now is… what gives? I thought Time Machine backed up everything. Not mostly everything?!

I read that Time Machine does not have this interactive restore function for iCal. Yes, it is shocking, but that's Apple for you. Brilliant in some areas, but just can't get it in others.
For example, you cannot sync iCal's to-do tasks with an iPhone.
I don't think Apple gets it that to-do's are important to people.
Apple, if you read this, please don't delete this, but take it on board as feedback. To-do tasks are probably the most important thing for busy people, because our lives consist of getting things done. This really is a major oversight by Apple, when it designed Leopard.

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Please always post your System details when you have a query. The upgrade to the new MobileMe calendar produces different results, and different problems, with different versions of OSX.
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
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Just got off the phone with Apple Support. With Lion, your User/Library/Calendar file is now hidden. Here is how to find it in order to restore data to your iCal.
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Use “GO” button located across top
Hit and hold the OPTION key on your keyboard
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Hello,
I've got a dumb question - I've tried this a number of times. You have given the clearest directions that I've read so far. However, after trying a number of different dates, it still will not populate. Most of my calendar entries were done with an iPhone, then synced via iCloud to laptop. Would that prevent them from being synced to the Time Machine? I'm at a loss (in more ways than one).
Either way, thanks for the help.
Pat
Message was edited by: pmrose

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Hi there,
After reading several postings (especially https://discussions.apple.com/message/16446185#16446185) I thought to understand how to restore my Calendars from Time Machine after creating a big mess using iCloud...
So far so good:
1. Open Finder and select Go > Library - using the Alt key- (so the folder "Calendars" is shown)
2. Enter Time Machine
3. Go to the date from which to restore
But:
4. Then the Destination Window opens
So I try to find my way to, you might guess, Home > Library... can't be seen. It's hidden. And now the Go > (press Alt = ) Library is grayed out.
So, how to make this work?

Pondini provided what looks like it might work:
Re: Restoring Backed up iCal folder to desktop: copy permission error
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