I had a peek at Rock 'n Rollers birthdays and now I can't delete it. It's all over my iCal and I can't delete it.

Question

Just started using iCal with Mobile Me and just out of curiosity, I had a peek at Rock 'n Rollers birthdays and once it's opened, it goes into your calendar and I can't delete it.
Can anyone help with this?  I've tried looking for the .ics file in my downloads and deleted them, but it's still there.
I tried to uncheck the HOME calendar of where it automatically downloaded, and of course there are other events that are in there and if I check it again, they just come back.
It's clogging up valuable space on my calendar.
Please help.  Thank you.
Ali-B

Answer 1

Hi,
It is better to subscribe to calendars rather than download them into a local calendar. I have looked at the calendar and the only common element is the text " *" in the title. Below is an Applescript that searches your "Home" calendar and locates events with this text It then gives you an option to delete each one so so you don't delete any 'false positives'.
Copy the script into a new Applescript Editor window (Applications > Utilities > Applescript Editor) and press Run.
Best wishes
John M
-- John Maisey -- 14 May 2011 -- www.nhoj.co.uk
set myCalName to "Home" -- Calendar to search
set mySearchTerm to " *" -- Search in event title
tell application "iCal"
  activate
          set myEvents to events of calendar myCalName
          repeat with thisEvent in myEvents
                    if summary of thisEvent contains mySearchTerm then
                              display dialog "Do you want to delete this event?" & return & (quoted form of (get summary of thisEvent)) buttons {"Cancel", "Delete", "Don't Delete"} default button 3 with icon 2 with title "Event Removal"
                              if button returned of the result is "Delete" then delete thisEvent
                    end if
          end repeat
end tell