ICal won't quit out

All of a sudden when I'm in iCal the "quit iCal" option is grayed out and I let it sit for a while thinking it might be synching but no matter how long I waited it wouldn't quit out. I force quit twice now but Finder doesn't indicate it's not responding. I'm all updated software wise on my MacBook Pro. Don't get it. Help?

I am having this problem also and would appreciate insight. I can only quit from the Dock.

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We bought our iMac 20" last January 2008 and it has worked perfectly. I have installed all updates. After the last update (and I really don't know if it is just coincidence...) iCal won't quit unless it is forced. All data is gone. It might also have something to do with the last time I synced my iPod...?
More troubling, the screen has started flickering... almost shutting down at points. However, it is not on a regular basis and seemingly out of the blue...?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Wilrez,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Regarding the iCal issue, if you used Software Update for installing OS X 10.5.7, you may want to try reinstalling the update using the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update.
Let us know what happens with both problems after the reinstallation.
;~)

ICal won't quit/monitor has commenced flickering

We bought our iMac 20" last January 2008 and it has worked perfectly. I have installed all updates. After the last update (and I really don't know if it is just coincidence...) iCal won't quit unless it is forced. All data is gone. It might also have something to do with the last time I synced my iPod...?
More troubling, the screen has started flickering... almost shutting down at points. However, it is not on a regular basis and seemingly out of the blue...?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

HI,
Try deleting this file. com.apple.ical.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.
See if iCal behaves.
*"More troubling, the screen has started flickering... almost shutting down at points. However, it is not on a regular basis and seemingly out of the blue...?"*
Run the Apple Hardware Test and see if it reports anything.
Not sure about the iPod. One problem at a time.
Check the startup disk just in case.
Insert the installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger and later) and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
Carolyn

Address Book (and iCal) won't quit

Hi - I have a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo running OSX 10.4.11 (i know, i know i will get to leopard soon..) and recently Address Book and regularly iCal won't quit without being forced. There doesn't seem to be any problem operating either programs (though with iCal i have to re-adjust the frame size to see the entries) and Address Book updates up via iSync etc.. but it just won't quit.
Anyone got any thoughts?
Thanks,
Lloyd

HI Michael,
Using your restore disk(s) you could use Software Restore from your Applications/Software Restore and reinstall iCal and Address Book. Launch Software Restore and just follow the onscreen instructions.
Carolyn

My safari won't let me shut down my computer and it also won't quit out of safari!

Im trying to exit out of safari but it keeps on making a noise and won't let me close out of it or minimize. Also when I try to shut my computer down it says to quit out of safari before but it won't let me. It lets me quit out of everything else but safari

Choose Force Quit from the Apple menu and close Safari from there.
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All events disappeared and iCal won't quit

Ok, I'm stumped.
I'm not sure if this started when I did the 10.5.5 upgrade or when I had a power-hit crash in the same time frame, but iCal seems pretty much dead. When I launch it, I see none of my events or groups - just a blank calendar. When I try to quit, the "iCal" menu shows blue but nothing happens. I can force quit but get the same results upon restarting iCal.
So, I have good backups and restored my user Library/Calendar and Library/Application Support/iCal folders. No change. Tried tossing the prefs and the Cache files per some other threads I've seen here - no change. Finally got out Pacifist and reinstalled iCal from my Leopard disk (which caused a number of other problems but sorted them out by reinstalling 10.5.5 update). iCal however, is still doing the same thing.
Anyone have suggestions for what I might try next?

Do the combo update for 10.5.5. For some reason, a number of us had the same problem when 10.5.5 update was first available. Even though I had 10.5.4 on my computer, ical worked (not) just like yours. Redoing the update as the combo one seemed to solve the problem.
Look for the thread ical hosed with 10.5.5.

Ical won't quit?!

I got a Macbook Pro for christmas and i entered a few events into ical and not it has a loading bar saying upgrading ical caladners and it won't go so i can't shut down the macbook properly as it says it failed due to this app. How can i fix this?

Put cursor to apple logo top of screen, Force Quit, and force quit ical

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Hi all,
My imac (osx 10.6.8), apple mail(4.5) has begun to act very odd. It quits out and on occasion I open an email to face "plugin is missing" or I have a spinning wheel and the email won't open. New to do list fails to add to the list. Can anyone help?

Hi all,
My imac (osx 10.6.8), apple mail(4.5) has begun to act very odd. It quits out and on occasion I open an email to face "plugin is missing" or I have a spinning wheel and the email won't open. New to do list fails to add to the list. Can anyone help?

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ICal won't start up! unexpectedly quits...

As soon as i start up iCal, it immediately shuts down and gives me the msg that "The application iCal has unexpectedly quit"
what do i do?

I really don't know what else I can do, but I STOPPED using iCal - I am giving up.
Here is a short description of what happens exactly, I hope that someone at Apple is reading this to enlighten me. By the way I trashed everything and wanted to start from scratch - yes, I was willing to lose all data for iCal to work. But no success, I am back to diary and pencil ...
Okay, here we go:
1. Upon firing up, it stays for 6 sec and quits unexpectedly (this we knew already!)
2. Under ~library/application support/iCal/sources, iCal generates a 25 NEW CALENDARs the first time and then one calender extra each time. THIS IS CRAZY. For the short moment I can have a peek in iCal, I see iCal has laid down a new calendars (why??)
3. I trashed com.apple.iCal under Cache, but no difference AND this folder has 2 subfolders (incoming and temp files) which are empty.
4. I trashed the library prefs for iCal com.apple.iCal.plist, fired iCal up, same problem!
I checked the UNIX command s at the Terminal, it says this:
Welcome to Darwin!
c211-28-65-113:~ hisham$ /Previous\ Systems/Previous\ System\ 1/usr/bin/calendar; exit
calendar: no calendar file: ``calendar''
logout
But I can't figure out more than what I have done.
Any advice will be highly appreciated!
Cheers
Hishm

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my iCal won't launch after 10.5.2 upgrade. it won't even give an "unexpectedly quit" message, it pops up then quits, then nothing. This happened immediately after the upgrade today. I got the leopard disc out and did an archive and install then it worked perfect, no issues, then I did a software update (since I was back to 10.5.0), and installed the 10.5.2 security upgrade, now iCal will not launch, am I the only one with this problem?

I had the exact same problem -- doubled events and could not edit anything. I flushed the cache as describe in some more detail here: http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/2506/iCal-problem-with-Leopard-Upgrade and everything started working just fine.

IPhoto 09 Faces wheel spins forever and/or won't quit

Hope someone has insight or it helps others...
For the last several days any import into iPhoto will set it into spinning the Faces album waiting wheel forever. There is no way to Quit. Other times just simple quitting won't work.
Activity shows 40-50% iPhoto CPU usage, lots of context switches (270,000 in 5 minutes of CPU time) but no hangs, no faults. I have previously let it run overnight, in case it was somehow reanalyzing 18000 images, but even then the problem remains.
Console shows: 10/12/09 3:55:58 PM iPhoto[653] * -[NSPathStore2 getCharacters:range:]: index (8) beyond bounds (3)
as most recent item from iPhoto in the log.
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Another console item showed iPhoto finding wrong architectured PGP plugin in contextual menu items, so I have trashed that. And, it finds a Chronos Notes related issue (contextual menu item in library and same named alias in user/library) throw an exception. I also informed ChronosNet.com of this....in case the recent iPhoto acting up is related to the SOHO update that was recently installed.
"I've had iPhoto start acting up (fails to quit) since SOHO NOTES latest update... checking the Console shows a possible problem....
You have a contextual menu entry (alias) in user/library and same name (original item) in library. That makes apps like iPhoto throw exceptions...
10/12/09 4:29:33 PM [0x0-0x40040].com.apple.iPhoto[653] objc[653]: Class SBContextualMenuHelper is implemented in both /Users/imran/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ChronosNotesCM.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ChronosNotesCM and /Library/Contextual Menu Items/ChronosNotesCM.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ChronosNotesCM. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined."
Let's see what they state.
Now.... Force quitting now to see what it shows in the logs:
It did not show any quick console messages. I'm surprised an OS X "report this crash to Apple" window did not open up.
Now relaunched... will see if it happens again...
Imran

iPhone is not "hung" in the traditional sense in that you can do several things within it while it's non-stop Faces spinning wheel displays. I do NOT find it responsive and it does NOT Quit when Faces is spinning forever. tgardner, your experience appears to be different.
Checking in Activity Monitor shows that interestingly there are no hangs or errors. But, looking into contents of iPhoto library shows NO files are modified even after 24 hours or running. In other words, maybe it's not dead, but it is comatose.
Also, checking in Console I always see a variable out of bounds error when this happens.
I have 19000 images and of those maybe 5000 have faces, of about 50 people. ALL of those images are already processed with Names info. Even if Faces needs to update some data, 24 hours of nothing but iPhoto running ought to be enough but it is not.
Others may want to check Console and Activity Monitor and add their experiences here.
regards
IMRAN

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He suggested opening the activity monitor then quitting the process genredetection.
When I went to the activity monitor, I saw I had two genredetection processes operating. I stopped both of them. iTunes went back to normal.
The blogger's source of the process was iWow. I don't have that, and don't know which application generated the process on my computer. I do now know how to fix the results.
I thought I would pass this on for others.

Excellent tip, thank you! I quit all the helper processes "orbiting" iTunes, but when all the usual suspects were already quit and I was out of ideas, going on a genredetection massacre did the trick!

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