ICal won't send invites

Hello! Help me please.. I am trying to send invites to attendees and ICal keeps telling me "unable to send invite" and says "To be able to send invitations, you need to create an address card for yourself in Mac OS X Address Book." I have an address card created in the Address book.. what am I doing wrong?

lgcavet,
Try deleting and recreating your "My Card."
After recreating the card, use Address Book>Card>Make This My Card.
;~)

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ICal not sending invites

Hey,
Is there anybody experienced tha problem when trying to send invite (meeting request) via iCal it sais:
iCal could not send the invitation.
To send invitations, create a card in Address Book.
I've created Address Book card for that person but it didn't solve my problem.
Any thoughts?

Solution: just add yourself in Address Book and click "Card" -> "Make This My Card" for iCal to know whom to put in "From" field.

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Message was edited by: Ed Gamble

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If you'd like to see this feature send feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
iOS 5 is coming out at some point: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/. Perhaps it will include this feature for local calendars as well.
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