Lost iCal data... ALL of it :(

I added iCloud so I could access a shared calendar, and now ALL my dates in iCal have dissappeared. I can't even find the original "calendar" anymore. HELP PLEASE. Being such "a planner" I'm slightly freaking out at the loss of all my data...

Hi Ken,
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't work, Import emlx to mbox, See if this helps...
http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html

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