ICal Events Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. Erased.

For some reason or another, my events are gone. All of them are gone. What, why, and how can I get them back?
If this happens again, I'm sticking with google calendar.

Well I solved he problem. It took me 3 hours. I deleted ALL iCal files from the system including all the reference files and in all he preference folders in the various users and libraries. Then I found an old copy of all the iCal stuff on a small USB drive (not bootable,not time machine- Carbon Copy Cloner) backup I happen to occasionally make as a spare backup of the system, that wasn't much more than a week old, and I copied ALL the icall files back from that drive,; then rebooted the system, Finally it seemed to recognize these old iCal files as the "new" iCal and I am back in business, I just have to fix and update all the entries by hand. It's fortunate I'm a nut and I actually back up my main system at least 5 different ways! I lost 3 backups at the same time!
Meanwhile here was the quote fromMacprofessionals to fix it:
Good Morning Dr. Spitzer,
There are a few options we can do...
I can have one of the tech's call you, to see if we can resolve this over the phone. Or I can have him go on site to your location. You can also bring in your machine and we can take a look at it here at $105 hour.
If you choose to have a Tech come out to you it is $145 hour time starts when the technician leaves the office and is a minimum of one hour.
For phone support it is also $145 at 15 minute intervals.
Please let me know how you would like to proceed
Thank you
Cristal
So my repair job was worth $450 by their billing - what Apple cost me. And it would have been more if I billed my lost professional time. We need to start posting these equivalent $ values to these glithes so everyone including the companies starts to get a sense of the value of these bugs and errors to the customers. There have been many systems where I have spent 10 times the price of the computer working on glitches to get the system to do what I need it to do.
But there is a klugey gruesome work around for now, until Apple ever decides to think this might really be a problem to be fixed. Or will they call a bug a feature and charge for it?

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