ICal Broke?

My iCal stopped working for the most part. I still get an email message I've preprogrammed but when I open iCal there is nothing in the far left area, name of calendars, etc., and I cannot access, add, or delete anything. I cannot close, diminish, etc from the upper left dots, I have to go to the upper bar to close iCal. It is “frozen” and I cannot even advance the months. I repaired permissions from my leopard install disk and my computer HD disk to no avail and synced. The same thing is happening on my macBook. iCal does work in my "test" log in, without the info of course.
I went to (UserNameFolder)/Library/Calendars, Calendar Cache, and renamed the file. iCal rebuilt the cache but it still does not work.
Is there any way I can restore iCal?

I think my iCal is finally back to "normal".
I followed these suggestions and this time put the Home folders on the desktop instead of the trash. Miraculously everything in iCal reappeared and has been working for about a week. I "think" I used the "manual" in the first one. I trashed the desktop icon a couple of days later (just to make sure it was still working), it is still working.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306537
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306482

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ICal Appointment Info Auto Popup Broke

iCal used to do a popup when you moused over the event or appt for a given day to give you information about that appt. It does not do that anymore.
Is there a way to turn that back on?
That was a VERY helpful feature and now it is gone.
Thanks

Hi,
Which version used to do that?
You can see the event details by double clicking on it. There is also a 'Show Inspector" option in iCal's Edit menu, with that open you click once to see the event details.
Best wishes
John M

ICal is just broke!

I don't know about others experiences with iCal's mandatory meeting cancelation notification process but I've been waiting for the last 30 minutes for mail to process the 700 some meeting notices in my calendar that I just deleted due to excessive duplication of events by iSync.
I had to take my computer off line during the start of a very busy day just so iCal can perform its unwanted, uncontrollable and excessively blatant disregard for efficiency.
_*Very simple, iCal should:*_
(1) give users the option to notify of cancelation not mandatorily send a cancelation without user interaction,
(2) not send cancelation notices when deleting an entire calendar.
*c'mon Apple! What the heck?*
UPDATE
Okay, I think I found the breaking point for Mail.app, if you have 832 outgoing messages pending in your outbox that are meeting notice cancelations automatically sent by iCal, Mail.app will crash! LOL
Message added by: JimN

Even though I'm marking this as answered, it really isn't because Apple hasn't found a way to resolve these issues. This is really important but doesn't appear to be high on Apples list of priorities. I assume that at some point, if enough people complain about this, there will be something done.

How to restore iCal and Address Book from my iPod mini.

I used to back-up my iCal and Address Book to both my Nokia phone and my iPod mini twice a day. then over Christmas my laptop hard drive and my phone both broke within 2 days of each other. Ouch! My only copy of my addresses and diary are now on the iPod. I could spend days reading the data and type it into to computer manually, but there has to be a way to do it automatically. *Mustn't there?*

Similar problem here,
I have a month-old archived version of my AddressBook, but today my entire rolodex vanished when the program froze and I force quit. I have a much more recent update on my ipod and have made significant additions/editions in the past month. Can I retrieve all that data from my iPod??
Help!

Apple You Need to Fix iCal/iSync in Leopard!

Hi,
What did Apple do to iCal in Leopard? They broke it somehow. I had hard drive failure in powerbook. Replaced Hard drive, did new install of Leopard. Then installed Palm desktop 4.2 (newest from site). Setup Palm Treo 650 conduit in isync. It will only sync the addresses, nothing in iCal. Either way is bad. From Treo to iCal, and iCal to Treo won't work. Everything IS setup correctly. I used to do this in Tiger with no problems. What did Apple do to Leopard? This needs to be corrected immediately! I do all my scheduling in iCal. It is useless to me if I can't sync it to the Treo to take with me.

You have no idea of what you are talking about, and your claims are entirely without merit. iCal was rewritten from the ground up for release with Mac OS X 10.5, and the synchronization component of it—in particular—does not work as intended or expected.
Virtually all mobile handsets and smartphones which worked under various releases of Mac OS X 10.4—with or without a plugin—continue to work under Mac OS X 10.5 and later. It is almost exclusively Palm devices which do not work as user would reasonably expect them to since the release of Mac OS X 10.5 and iCal 3.
iCal and iSync cannot simply be returned to their Mac OS X 10.4 counterparts: your inability to understand the complex nature of programming these applications and their frameworks apparently underlies your groundless assumptions and claims.
It silly to claim that these applications "…worked perfectly in and up to 10.4." Nothing could be further from the truth. By most reasonable measures, particularly with regard to Palm devices, these applications did not come close to working "perfectly," and many, many mobile handsets offer better interaction with the Address Book and iCal through iSync than does the iPhone through iTunes.

APPLE = Fix iCal in Leopard!!!!!

Hi,
What did Apple do to iCal in Leopard? They broke it somehow. I had hard drive failure in powerbook. Replaced Hard drive, did new install of Leopard. Then installed Palm desktop 4.2 (newest from site). Setup Palm Treo 650 conduit in isync. It will only sync the addresses, nothing in iCal. Either way is bad. From Treo to iCal, and iCal to Treo won't work. Everything IS setup correctly. I used to do this in Tiger with no problems. What did Apple do to Leopard? This needs to be corrected immediately! I do all my scheduling in iCal. It is useless to me if I can't sync it to the Treo to take with me.

My sync in Leopard was working OK until today. My Nokia E61 syncs contacts but not calendar entries as of today. Strange. iSync doesn't recognize the calendars in iCal and says "No writable calendar was found" even though iCal is open right behind it.

ICal won't recognize calendars in a calendar group

First - I do not use the cloud, everything is stored on my local hardDisk
Second - the problem is only with iCal. Other programs can see calandars within calendar groups just fine.
Third and most importantly - I apologize in advance for misspelling calendar (or anything else) as I am sure to do so many times.
My problem: All of a sudden iCal stopped recognizing anything inside a calendar group.
I am running Mountain Lion 10.8.3.
I have multiple calendar groups, all containing calendars inside them and a slew of events for each.
When I click on a calandar within a group and add a new event it popps up with the right color, indicating that it will be saved within that calandar group, yet inside the actual event (in the edit screen) the calandar associated with it is null. Specifically I can't choose anything because everthing is grayed out. The only thing showing are the names of the various calendar groups I have, but none of the calandars inside those groups show up for me to select them.
Notice that the new even is GREEN indicating that it will go into the World Holiday's calendar inside the group Holidays. Yet inside the details of the even it shows that the associated calandar is Lightfoot, the only calendar not inside a group. The only way to make World Holidays an option is to move it out of the group, but that defeats the purpose of groups.
As stated before, the calendar groups show up and work fine in other programs, the problem is unique to iCal alone. Here is a screenShot of mail as I try to add a new even from there.
See how it is giving me the option to put the event in ANY of the calandars whether they are inside a group or not. This is how iCal was working up until Tuesday the 19th. This is also what I just finished doing when it broke. I have tried the following with no success:
- deleting all the calendars/calendar groups and working from a clean/error free archive of iCal
- deleteing my cache files
- installing a dummy user with admin privelges to see if the problem ports over
- reinstalling OS X (not erasing my data but in essence reinstalling iCal)
- verifying the disk to find any errors (there were none)
- reparing disk permissions (they were all fine but I repaired them anyway)
- contacting apple support (nice guy, but so far can't figure it out either)
It appears to be a hierarcy issue inside of iCal alone. It is as if anything inside a calendar group (calandars and events) is unreadable by iCal, like the hierarchical structure is corrupt or there is a bad line of code in there somewhere. Any ideas on what I should try and do to fix it?
Thanks!

I too am having this difficulty. It just showed up today (3/27) and nearest as I can figure, is somehow tied to the latest Mountain Lion update since I just installed that from the App Store. That said, I'm no closer to figuring out what to do about it.
I am also running 10.8.3 and am steering clear of the Cloud because it doesn't support calendar groups.
Like you, I can get things in the right calendar/color if I click that calendar then add the event. But if I then go into the individual event it is being labeled as something else. I think it is actually putting it in the correct calendar, because if I click between events and watch the calendar bar on the left, it switches between the different calendars and groups appropriately. It is a bit frustrating though that if I want to switch an event's calendar assignment, I now have to re-enter it, rather than just switching it through the edit pane or by right-clicking.
Here's hoping someone out there will see this and have a solution.
Cheers!

In mail "create new ical event" has stopped appearing in ical

Please help! I love clicking on data in email to bring up the "Create New iCal Event" box, and using it to put new events into my ical calendar. But recently when I "Create New iCal Event" from an email, and click "add to iCal" the window closes but the event doesn't show up in iCal. I can still add events by clicking on a calendar date in iCal and typing them in, but the link between Mail and iCal seems to be broken. How can I fix it?
Could this be related to how Firefox recently broke? Foxfire will not save bookmarks any more, either, I click on "Bookmarks," then "Bookmark this page". The window closes but the bookmark does not save. Also, the forward/backward browser arrows no longer work on Foxfire.

Could you be more specific? What happens (or fails to happen?)

Simple question; Mac Server Setup for Mail, iCal and Address Book Services.

Hi Guys;
I'm new to the Mac Server world and need a few questions answered.
I have purchased a new Mac mini Server for hosting File, Web, Mail, iCal and Address Book Services.
I’m comfortable setting up File and Web Services however I’m a bit uneasy setting up Mail, iCal and Address Book services to be access locally and remotely(via the internet).
My current setup is;
Internet connection (Dynamic IP) -> Router -> Mac mini Server.
I have purchased a domain name (Thornton-net.com) from DynDns.com + a custom DNS service as I can setup my router to update my domain’s IP address automatically.
I can access File and Web Services remotely (thortnon-net.com) perfectly without any issues via the Port Forwarding feature of the Router.
If I setup Mail, iCal and Address Book Services -> will Mail, iCal and Address Book clients be able to access these services hosted by the server via Thornton-net.com?
Message was edited by: Allan.Thornton

Welcome to the forums.
For mail services (and specifically for your outbound mail to be accepted by other mail servers) your mail server needs to have a static IP address and matching forward and reverse and MX records, or a tunnel to a static IP (with matching DNS), or you need another mail server where you have an authorized relay. Without that, your mail will be considered a spam engine, and dropped.
Additionally, your particular tier of service with your ISP (with a static IP) will generally allow server-oriented access and server-oriented network traffic, where a residential or other tier of service (with a dynamic IP addresses) can be firewalled.
The ISP controls the "high ground" of the network connections here, so you pretty much get to play by their rules and requirements. If they don't offer static IP, then (presuming their T&Cs permit it) you get to tunnel (via IPv6, for instance) to a tunnel broker, and receive your network traffic via that (and with matching DNS) point of presence. That could well be a tunnel for your mail at whichever your DNS provider is here, because you'll have issues with your dynamic address. (You get to sort out if they offer that.)
Far and away the easiest approach (if you want to host this stuff yourself) is to work with the ISP. They're inherently involved in your network, and they and they alone have full control over your reverse DNS configuration.

Meeting time mismatch between MS Outlook 2011 and iCal

Devices:
Mac Air running OS X 10.10 with MS Office 2011 (Outlook via IMAP) - no Exchange.
Also running Mail concurrently via IMAP.
iPhone 6+ running iOS 8.2.
Time Zone:
New Zealand on daylight saving - UTC/GMT +13:00
Background:
I have using both Microsoft and Apple Mail and Calendar (iCal) platforms concurrently on various MacBooks etc for at least 5 years i.e. previously MS Entourage 2008 (?) now Outlook 2011. Once upon a time Entourage/Outlook & Mail/iCal used to sync quite nicely via iTunes and sync services but then that functionality was taken away from us in Mavericks. There was a lot of fuss about this!
I managed to find a work around that worked for me. Far more detail can be found in a previous thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5479205 but in short I found I could drag calendar and contacts from Outlook to iCal & Contacts and vice versa without too much fuss for my volume of meetings etc.
Once meetings and contacts were in iCal and Contacts then iCloud made sure they synced with my iPhone - YAY!!!
THAT ALL CHANGED AGAIN WITH YOSEMITE !!!!!!
Problem:
It would seem that since upgrading to Yosemite I am experiencing serious TIME ZONE discrepancies between Meeting requests in Outlook and OS X / IOS.
Example:
1. Meeting request created in Outlook from external 3rd party contact received for Sunday, 23 November 2014 10.00am - 12.00pm
Shows correctly in Outlook
OS X & iOS show event exactly 13 hours later @ Sunday, 23 November 11.00pm - 1.00am
This is exactly the time difference between GMT/UTC and NZT (or GMT/UTC +13:00)
Because meeting/event is from a 3rd party the date/time cannot be edited.
Accepting locks it in at the wrong time which ends up being synced to iPhone.
2. Meeting request created by 'self' in Outlook and dragged onto iCal in OS X for Saturday, 13 December 2014 3.30pm - 4.00pm
Shows correctly in Outlook (as you'd expect!)
The instant its dragged across the iCal 'Adding a new event' pop up box appears.
Click 'OK' and for literally 2 seconds it's displayed as the right day and time ...
BUT THEN it jumps (moves) to Saturday, 14 December 2014 4.30am - 5.00am!!! Exactly 13 hours later.
When iOS updates via iCloud it also shows the event @ Saturday, 14 December 2014 4.30am - 5.00am.
Log on to iCloud (web calendar) and it's the same.
Again this is exactly the time difference between GMT/UTC and NZT (or GMT/UTC +13:00).
NOW CHECK THIS OUT - double click event in iCal OR iCloud web calendar and it shows the details as "13 December 3.30pm - 4.00pm (GMT)"
See images -
3. Meeting request created by 'self' in Outlook and dragged onto iCal in OS X for Friday, 7 December 2014 12.00pm - 1.30pm PLUS added and sent to invitee
Shows correctly in Outlook (as you'd expect!)
The instant its dragged across the iCal 'Adding a new event' pop up box appears.
Click 'OK' and for literally 2 seconds it's displayed as the right day and time ...
BUT THEN it jumps (moves) to Saturday, 8 November 2014 1.00am - 2.30am.
So everything else is as previously described ... the EXCEPTION here is the person who I sent the invite to.
They received it in OS X Mail and iOS - it also appeared in their calendars Saturday, 8 November 2014 1.00am - 2.30am rather than the more suitable time for a Friday business lunch!!
Given this worked fine under Mavericks and the only thing to have changed is an upgrade to Yosemite then there has to be a bug in Yosemite??
I've attempted to be as thorough with my testing as possible but whilst I am in IT Sales and Business Dev, I am not an engineer!! Therefore I am very keen to hear from any far more intelligent being that suggest other tests, what I should do next or better still how to fix it !!!!
Now I shall sit and wait for the arrival of great and profound wisdom ... yes, still smiling but I don't know for how long!!

So no replies/comments but lots of views ... either means I haven't reached someone who's prepared to tackle this one or everyone thinks I'm a Muppet for doing things the way I do!!
Because of the many views and at least 2 persons who have indicated they have the same issue ...
UPDATE:
So much research!!! Would appear that Outlook is designed to send calendar events in UTC/GMT time irrespective of local - don't quote me! That being the case that would explain why the events I had issues with turn up with showing GMT. Would also suggest that for some reason iCal cannot see inside to translate the actual time ... anyway ... moving on.
So at this point I need to say I have turned off in Mac Mail preferences "Add invitations to Calendar - Automatically" and set to "Never" ... I will try testing with that "on" again later.
For now here's a kludged workaround for at least the process that I use i.e. dragging meetings from Outlook to iCal to sync via iCloud to my iPhone.
Before I would drag the Outlook event (straight from Outlook's calendar) onto the iCal icon (sorry realize I hadn't perhaps been explicit on that before) ... that would then open iCal if not already open and then 'pop' the 'Adding a new event' box ... click 'OK' and it'd be entered with the same alert time etc ... that once worked, then broke hence this post!!
So what I've found that does work (with some shortcomings) is (and easier if you're running dual screens!!):
Open iCal - best if you use Day view
Drag the Outlook event to that day and to the correct time
N.B.: Duration, Category and Alert information is lost
Open event in iCal and edit the above
Syncs immediately to iCloud and in its own good time to iPhone
I have tested this against my original examples:
Example 1 - Works for events/meetings received from external Outlook source - you can open and edit the time and alerts. Not sure if it creates any grief or extra clutter at the senders end!! Guess I'll hear about that soon enough.
Example 2 - Works for events/meetings created by me in Outlook and dragged over - same deal - still have to edit duration and alerts etc.
Example 3 - Hmmmm ... haven't tried adding an invitee who I know is an iCal only user yet. I expect that if sent from Outlook he's still going to have it show up wrong at his end so will be a set of instructions and training I expect. I have an idea that may work ... will have to test.
SORRY - I said it was a Kludge.
I will see if this approach remains stable for a bit before turning back on the "Add invitations to Calendar - Automatically" setting in Mail.
I'll report back again after that.

ICal Feature, Bug, or Configuration Problem?

We have a school calendar running on iCal Server (10.6.4) called "CS Calendars". Each user has one default calendar when the account is created on the local MacBook (10.6.4). Many users have created additional calendars under "CS Calendars" so that they will show up as "busy" if they schedule stuff on the other calendars.
Here's the problem...
A users sends an "invite" to another user. That user accepts the invite. The appointment shows up initially under "(username)'s Calendar" under "CS Calendars". The user now wants to change the appointment to another of their calendars under "CS Calendars". As soon as they select the other calendar an error message pops up saying:
The server responded with an error.
The request for (Name of Invite) in (Name of OTHER Calendar) in account "CS Calendars" failed.
The server responded with
"HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway"
to operation CalDavMoveEntityQueueableOperatioin.
I have googled that error operation and can't find but 6 links on the entire internet that has any reference to it and some of them are duplicates.
Is this a prohibited operation by CalDAV? (The user SWEARS to me that she was able to do this last year - we have had 4 iterations of 10.6 since then) Is this a bug in CalDAV? or (more likely) Do I not have iCal Server configured correctly OR the client misconfigured?
Thanks for any help.
John Orban
System Administrator
The Country School

Apple Engineering is looking into this issue. Not sure what the problem is but it appears that if you have a user with an iCal acccount created via the "automatic" method this type of behavior occurs. The fact that it was working until recently makes me wonder if a software update broke something?
What has worked so far is to delete the old iCal account. Create a new one but use "CalDAV" as "Account Type". Then enter port # 8443 and check the SSL box (we have both SSL and non-SSL access to our calendar). Create the account.
Unfortunately, as soon as you do another error message is thrown stating that the username or password is incorrect. When you go back to account settings, the Password Field is BLANK. Re-entering the password seems to then fix the issue.
I didn't pick up on the problem because I only have one calendar and don't move appointments around like my users do. I'll report what Tech Support finds out.

Attempting to migrate iCal from 10.5.8 to 10.6.7

So I managed to migrate mail, ldap, & the wiki pretty easily ... but ical just isn't taking.
When I put the 10.5 ical data from /Library/Calendarserver/Documents on the new 10.6 server, I get tons of errors about: "No principal found for UID: xxxx". the support boards indicate this is a problem with ldap - specifically that the uuid's have changed. however, mine have not. the uuid's caldavd complains about do exist and are assigned to the same users they were in the 10.5.8 directory
Another problem I've had and have seen discussed on the boards is that 10.6 "changed" (reads broke) how group calendars used to work (when hacked). I don't think this will be a show-stopper for me since the hacky way group calendars worked in 10.5 I don't think worked for us so we just have 1 individual user & 1 individual group account each that we delegate access to their calendar and that becomes our shared calendar solution. I think the 1 group calendar we have (not sure how we created it - it predates me) will be a problem - since I can't find a way to make 10.6 recognize it under the same uuid for that group. But I suppose as long as I could manually create a user with the same uuid as the group I might be able to make it so my users don't have to change their client configurations to point to new urls.
Also, despite all the no principal for uid errors, when I try to access the old group shared calendar's URL I get this:
There was an unexpected error with the request (domain CalDAVErrorDomain / error 5 / description 'The server has not specified a calendar home for the account at "/principals/_uids_/83E1F1D4-9D2F-4515-BBA3-04BB39F3A8BB/ -- https://<servername>:8443/".'). Meanwhile the path does exist (albeit in 10.6's new directory hierarchy /_uids_/83/E1/83E1F1D4-9D2F-4515-BBA3-04BB39F3A8BB)

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Leopard iCal (v3.0) takes away functionality and ruins the user experience

Why oh why did Apple DESTROY the usability of iCal present in Tiger with the horrid changes they made to iCal in Leopard? Please, Apple, put it back the way it was.
In Tiger iCal, if I highlight an event, the sidebar pops up intelligently ready for me to enter times, repeats, alarms, notes, or invitees. It was even smart enough to put it to the side with the most screen space.
In Leopard iCal, Apple has taken all that intelligent functionality away and burdened users with way too many unnecessary mouse clicks before en event can be entered or edited.
Now, with "new and improved (NOT)" Leopard iCal 3.0, if I want to add an event in the monthly calendar, I double click on the day, but instead of the sidebar opening all by itself, I must now do another double click on the event itself and yet another click on the EDIT button, all before I can actually enter an event in the real world.
Oh, sure, I can type the name of my event after the first double click, but that's useless for any events with times, invitees, alarms, or notes.
Again, what were the people at Apple thinking? Do any of them actually use iCal?
I check the iCal help and there was something about clicking a button in the lower right hand corner of the iCal window to quicking edit an event, but there is no such button there, only the push pin for to-dos. CMD-I will bring up the event window, but it still requires a mouse click on enter edit mode.
If you agree with me and want iCal back the way it was, please submit iCal feedback to Apple and tell them they got it wrong in Leopard iCal 3.0.

Lot's of folks agree with you.
The following post was very active for a while - 4300 views, 66 post until it was locked without explanation.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1201297&tstart=675
I keep thinking, maybe I'll just get used to the changes and still, every single day the use of this core application is a source of constant frustration. I keep blindly hoping that the iCal team will listen to user feedback and examine the usability of this app.
And for the record, it's never been about the info drawer - it's about overall usability and restoring such basic items as one click editing of content on the calendar, being able to have a usable / expandable long event descriptions and being able to edit with one click vs. three.
For just one instance of how they broke this, just try creating a text entry of 200 characters or more in the "notes" field and then see what happens if you add more text. Unlike this web form which automatically keeps scrolling so you can keep typing....it stops and you have to manually scroll from short line to short line. It's just unbelievable - as if they didn't QA the basic functionality with a single user that does anything beyond the most limited use of the app.

How do I view reminders or To Do's in iCal in Mountain Lion

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion today. Have hundreds of tasks, ToDo's, reminders - whatever you want to call them. Previously they appeared on right side of iCal as a list. I see no "Show Reminders" in View menu, nothing in Preferences. Searched for a reminder and nothing came up. Has everything gone to "Reminders" app?

I was disappointed to find that Calendar and Reminders are two separate apps in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.3). But I am more disappointed that I didn't think to check for discussions about this issue before upgrading. I didn't think to check on iCal in Mountain Lion because iCal was working so well. If it ain't broke why change it?
I have a little network of three 2011 model iMacs that had been running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8) with Snow Leopard Server on a Mac mini. We don't share files as much as diary entries and our to-do lists. We are very happy with how OS X 10.6 handles this.
There are a couple of pieces of software that I would like to use that only run on Lion or Mountain Lion so I thought I'd upgrade one of the iMacs to Mountain Lion. After the upgrade Calendar appears to have picked up the iCal data on the iMac and our shared iCal data on the server but not the to-do list items. It appears from the discussions that no provision has been made to import the data into Reminders. Strangely, some completed to-do items appeared in Reminders.
After my first shutdown and next startup of the iMac I also encountered the frozen dialogue box "Upgrading calendars …" which some of the discussions mentioned. Calendar quit OK and I re-opened it without the dialogue box appearing again. Calendar is a big window too that doesn't seem to be able to be reduced down much.
Some years ago I used an application called Now Up-to-Date on various Macs running OS 8. It combined a calendar and to-do list that could be shared on a network but the network features didn't work with OS X in Classic mode. It wasn't until later versions of OS X that iCal incorporated the combined features.
This is a bit of a long story but for the first time using Macs I think I will uninstall an upgrade. My little network was working fine. I'm also not keen to upgrade the server to Mountain Lion and risk messing up features that have been working well.

After 10.7.4 update, iCal crashes on startup

I had several failed attempts to install the Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 update.
After each time the installer got hung up on "moving items into place" and I had to force it to quit after a couple hours.
The first time I used Software Update. After I force-quit and restarted, Mail wouldn't run.
The second time I used the Combo updater. After I force-quit and restarted, Mail wouldn't run.
The third time I repaired permissions first then ran the updater in safe mode. After force-quit and restart, Mail ran but iCal still doesn't.
Viewing the system.log in Console shows me this message:
May 16 11:39:22 MacBookPro [0x0-0x1d51d5].com.apple.iCal[38902]: dyld: Symbol not found: _kICSSTR_none_trigger_value
May 16 11:39:22 MacBookPro [0x0-0x1d51d5].com.apple.iCal[38902]: Referenced from: /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal
May 16 11:39:22 MacBookPro [0x0-0x1d51d5].com.apple.iCal[38902]: Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iCalendar.framework/Versions/A/iCalendar
May 16 11:39:22 MacBookPro [0x0-0x1d51d5].com.apple.iCal[38902]: in /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal
May 16 11:39:22 MacBookPro com.apple.launchd.peruser.201[38688] ([0x0-0x1d51d5].com.apple.iCal[38902]): Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
Someone please help me get iCal back running!

Ok, well if Apple doesn't cover this after their update broke my system I'll consider never buying an Apple product again. The first thing they did on the phone was ask me to spend $249 to buy AppleCare. I told them that I called to get their problem fixed and it was disconcerting to be treated like a revenue generator instead.
I mean, if I drop the computer and it breaks it's my fault. But if Apple's update breaks my computer, they need to fix it whether I'm under warranty or not. Many Apple customers are experiencing this problem. If Steve Jobs was stuck on delighting customers, I sure hope they don't disappoint.

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