ICal and multiple iMac users w/ iPhones

We have three user accounts on one iMac. Each user has an iPhone. One iCal account has new appointments made on the iMac, but these entries *do not sync to the iPhone.*
I have been through the documentation and cannot figure out why it does not synch.
Any advice?! Thanks

The good and bad news is that I have the answer to my one question.
If you stumble upon this item the answer is that the INFO tab on iTunes when you are syncing has the options for syncing iCal and Address book. Check the right boxes and all should be well.

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Hi, all.
How do you get information entered into iCal and Contacts on an equipped iPhone to push to an equipped MacPro? So far it's been a one way street Macpro to phone, and that's not what I was told it would be. I've been through all settings on both devices and see no way to do this. Help! If I synch the old fashioned way, what's going to happen?

First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.
First check that all your settings are correct, that calendar syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the calendars you are using are in your 'iCloud' account and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud account (you can do this by clicking/tapping the calendar button in the top left corner of the application ), non iCloud calendars will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your calendars are in the iCloud account, you might try unchecking calendar syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling calendar syncing settings.

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I have just bought a used imac, i have used home sharing to get my itunes from my macbook.
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Once upon a time, I had LION installed on my 24" iMac. I moved my MobileMe account to iCloud. Shortly after that, the badly botched Lion installation (done by an Apple Genius over the phone) caused so much trouble, I had to take my desktop in to be serviced. They did a complete back up and reinstalled Snow Leopard. So now I have a mobile me account (through Snow Leopard) that does not input into iCloud. However, I can still access iCloud from iCloud.com.
That was TMI, wasn't it?
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We recently purchased two iphone 5cs for my husband and I to use. We want to share the contacts and ical on our Macbook Air. Currently the Macbook Air is set up as my computer with my id. How do I share the ical and contacts with my husbands phone?

kimberleyallen wrote:
Is there any way to share a group of contacts with another user in the same way as you can share calendars?
With iCal you can choose to share certain calendars so that any changes are updated on everyone's devices that the calendar has been shared with. I want to replicate that system with a group of contacts. I know this could be achieved by having contacts assigned to one iCloud account, that account being the one that is used on everyone's devices but that means that all the contacts would be shared. I have groups of contacts, personal, business etc. The business group of contacts contains all the relevant contact information for the client but also I use the notes section to record details of conversations etc. I would like to be able to share that group of contacts with a work colleague so that they could access up to date information on that client and also if either of us added new contacts the group would be updated on all our devices. However I don't want to share personal contacts which is what would happen if we shared the same iCloud account.
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My suggestion would be to open that "second" icloud account. Use it for you and your colleague(s). Then transfer every contact that you want to share onto that account.
Going to Settings---> Mail, Contacts, Calendars---> Add Account to add the new account, and set the Contacts to ON.
When you want to add/edit/delete a contact from that account. Just open Contacts---> Select Groups and select that account from the list. You can then add/edit/delete the contacts.
Going this route will keep your personal contact list separate from the professional list.
You can use iCloud, google, Yahoo, Outlook.com and others. Personally I'll stick with an IMAP service. As you can also use the Notes in the Notes app. *Separate from the Contacts Note section you mentioned.
KOT

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My iCal is a mess.
I have been trying to sort out duplicate events, many duplicate holidays including duplicate calendars by following instructions in the forums, no luck only making a bigger mess.
I have saved iCal to my desktop so I don't lose all my info. ln the past I have just ignored all the duplicates and lived with it. It may have to do with my syncing preferences. I think I have three places to look at the options for syncing. Preferences in iCal on my computer, Mobile Me preferences and iTunes.(info) sync all calendars. I have set preferences in all three places to sync calendars. Maybe I should not have.
I hope that someone has the time to explain to me how I can rebuild my iCal and sync it between my computer and my iPhone. It is not a complicated network. I am not sure if I have given a clear picture or enough information. I really do not want to lose any information and would like to keep old events in my iCal.

I am sorry for posting this question. I was frustrated and looking for a quick fix. There are not many answered questions in this forum on this topic and the ones that say answered I bet are just marked answered. I marked mine answered as well so as to not waste time and to just get to work on fixing it.

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I have setup our iMac with multiple users. I migrated all our digital music to one user and found all the cover art, etc to make it work well. Now I want to allow all the other users to access that music library. I have tried everything from adding the files from a shared folder to exporting it to physically copying all the files and cover art to a different folder for each user. Exporting doesn't work at all, and there doesn't seem to be a way to simply share the same music files across users on an iMac. The closest was physically copying the files, but that means gigabytes of duplicated files for each user, and it still loses some of the covert art. There has to be a solution to this, or Apple has missed a critical function for the multiple user feature. Please help.

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I have synched my iphone 3gs with my computer and I get multiple settings under each date on my phone but the same information doesn't show up on the calender on ical. I can't figure out how to get rid of the multiple settings without deleating each one individually. Also how do I get the information to appear on ical.

rabbilarry,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Are you using MobileMe? If so, your problem sounds similar to that in this thread.
Open "Settings" on the iPhone>Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks>Accounts>your MobileMe account and turn off the Calendar, when prompted delete data, wait two minutes turn Calendar back on, and when asked merge the data. Wait patiently, and hopefully you will be able to regain sync functions. If you are able, I recommend using a Wi-Fi connection to make the change.
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I have seen other discussions related to this subject but I can't seem to fix it. I have duplicates in my iPhone and MacBook of both iCal events and contacts. I am probably doing something wrong because if I add an event on my MacBook it will appear (fast enough!) in my iPhone, but it will not work the other way. Same thing with contacts. It is a bit of a nightmare and I would like to be able to have things once and automatically synced... if possible, of course, but I assumed this is what iCloud was about.
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Ical and multiple computers

hi all!
i'm sure this is probably a very basic question but here goes nothing....
I just signed up for .mac and would like to be able to access my ical at home (on an ibook) and at work (on a pc using windows xp). from what i have read, it seems like is should be able to do this through syncing but i can't seem to find my ical anywhere on my idisk. i published the calendar to the web but this doesn't allow me to make changes while i am at work. isn't there a way to use my ical both from home and at work?
thanks in advance for all your help!

Sorry , you can see your events from a PC but you can't edit your calendars. When you published a window popped up telling you the URL for seeing. Un-publish and publish again if you lost that URL.
If you have two Macs all things are possible. Yes you can sync (including edit) via .Mac. Very easy to set up.

Ical and iphone syncing issues

I'll pile on with my own iphone/ical sync issue, to add to all the others i see.
my iphone and ical synched just fine from the start, but since installing software updates, suddenly the calendar on iphone will not accept any new information.
originally, i'd set up my entourage to sync to ical, and in turn 'sync' to iphone, but to test if this runaround was the problem, i've followed some of the other instructions laid out elswhere on this board to set up a test calendar on ical.
this hasn't worked either. nor will the iphone calendar accept any new info when i explicitly direct the itunes software to replace info.
i've also tried resetting everything, but those stubborn pre-software update calendar items remain on my iphone, completely unchanged.
anyone have any ideas?

The same thing happened to me. As of today's update (11/16) I got to the root of the problem. go into itunes with iphone connected. select information, and if your problem is mine, you will see that all ical and mailbox synching options are now strangely unchecked. check the boxes for what you want to synch. click apply. for an unknown reason, the software update then reveals that it thinks your phone is synching to another account. just keep clicking through, selecting synching with your computer and "new" account. ditto for the keychain issues. presto! it all synchs correctly again.
hope this helps!

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