ICal is stuck.

I don't remember what I did, but now my iCal is stuck. It won't respond to any commands. All it does is give me the following box at the top of the iCal window:
In order to get rid of iCal, I have to do a force quit. The program won't respond to command-quit.
I can't use iCal on this computer.
How do I get iCal to stop doing whatever it is trying to do with some unknown server?

Hi Richard, I had the exact same issue. Spent 6 hours with support staff who got me to reinstall Mavericks, do numerous safe boots, and perform various strange CVC and NVPRAM resets as well as deleting some 3rd party software they believed was the problem! none of it worked.
And then I found this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23829145?ac_cid=tw123456#23829145
30 seconds effort to delete a single calendar cache file sorted it immediately without even having to reboot!
Worth a try. T

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Actually, I only addressed your first complaint about the view being stuck to a specific week when a todo item in that week is selected.
It turns out I am also experiencing something that looks like your second complaint, about the wrong todo item being selected when you try to click on one. What I am seeing is the following: just like you can't show a date and its events outside of the current week if a todo item in the current week is selected, you can't show a todo item outside of the current week if an event in the current week is selected. If you scroll down and try to select the todo item, the list scrolls back up automatically, and you end up selecting a different todo item in the current week.
I also reported this to Apple in the same bug report.
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You can send your complaints on the following site:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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Greetings,
1. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal one at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Go to iCal > Quit iCal
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--- NOTE: To get to "Home > Library" in Lion: Click anywhere on the desktop and then click on the "Go" menu at the top of the computer screen while holding down the "option" key on the keyboard. You will see "Library" in the menu.
4. Launch iCal and test.
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1. Go to iCal > Quit iCal
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
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Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
--- NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
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jrObert,
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adboger,
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