ICal freezes when attempting to change any appointments
I use iCal @ my business to schedule all of my appointments. Recently when I have tried to adjust any of the previously scheduled appointments iCal freezes and locks the entire computer up. If anyone has any suggestions that would be amazing, seeing as I have to use iCal on a daily basis this is a HUGE issue. I have downloaded and installed all updates and restarted the computer numerous times.
In searching I tried a couple of other things... mainly turning off .mac syncing, turn off the birthday calendar, unsubscribing all of my calendars and un-publishing my calendars. None of this worked either. I tried to export my calendars and was able to export some of the calendars and it froze on a couple exports.
I got frustrated so I called applecare today and they ran me through a battery of tests:
1. Opening ical in a newly created account and playing around with it that way. Everything worked fine in there. I imported a couple of calendars that I could export, as I stated above, and they seemed to be working fine too.
2. Back on my account I deleted the "cache" folder in my Home>Library folder, the "calendar cache" files in Home>Library>Calendar folder (I had 3 of them), and then deleted the "com.apple.ical..." preference files in the Home>Library>Preferences folder (I had 3 different ical pref files). Then started up ical and had the same freezes as before.
3. Removed the "Calendars" folder from Home>Library to my desktop and then started up iCal. All of my calendars appeared in the calendar menu on the left, but no events were added (except for some subscribed events that obtained the events from the internet). Adding new events to each calendar worked fine and I had no freezes either.
The apple guy came to the conclusion that something was corrupt with the content itself not the program or the system. This really ***** because since the move to 10.4 or 10.5 they changed how calendars are stored in the Calendars folder. It is no longer just stored as a .ics file but a bunch of alpha-numeric folders are created that have no real identifying characteristics to decipher which calendar event is which.
He suggested I install an older calendar folder from my a .mac update (no good because it has updated since the freezing began), or use Time Machine. Thankfully I started using Time Machine awhile ago and have several backups of my calendars folder.
So I took a backup from before the freezing happened... 3 days ago. I have lost a bunch of entries that I am trying to reenter right now. But so far everything seems to be working alright. I will update when I get everything back up to normal.
I am also deleting my entries to my calendar that occurred 3 years ago to try and weed out some of the old events I don't reference to anymore. I hope this post helps you out.
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