MobileMe "New Calendar" upgrade by Microsoft...??

Am I missing something? Was the new mobileMe calendar upgrade designed by Microsoft instead of by Apple? Things are supposed to get better with Apple, not worse as with Microsoft.
iCal before the new calendar upgrade - Organizer sends me new iCal event. Message appears in my iCal notifications. I click on "Accept". Done, perfect, Apple-way.
iCal after new calendar upgrade - Organizer sends me new iCal event. Message does not appear in iCal notifications. I receive a new email with invite. The email has all broken images (ugly). I click on "Load Images". Images load. Now I see a "Accept" button. Clicking on it actually opens Safari. I wait for Safari to open and for page to load. Now I see a link where I can download an .ics file with the calendar event. I download file. I then have to find the correct .ics file among all the other files I downloaded. I double-click on .ics file to store event in calendar. I have to switch back to finder to delete stray downloaded .ics file.
???? Am I missing something? Is this dumb and absurd? Only Microsoft could have come up with such a loss of functionality, loss of practicality, loss of smoothness of streamlining, loss of simple GUI, loss of... my mind.
My most useful link of the week:
http://www.me.com/calendar/downgrade
PS - I confirmed with a tech support chat that this unbelievable behavior is actually by design - ExpressLane Case 195850002

Agree 100%...the new MobileMe Calendar "upgrade" is a huge step backward in most respects.
Just spent the last hour trying to help my wife figure out how to undo the damage. In my opinion, the most obnoxious behavior of the new "upgrade" is that it completely commandeers all of your calendars, so instead of being able to send business meeting invites from my business email account and personal invites from my me.com account, all new meetings are now sent from the me.com account.
Even that behavior could be acceptable if there was an easy way to change the name of my me.com address to something more "business appropriate", but of course that is another me.com failure...

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Quick rundown of what I've been through and how I have solved my problem.
I have a MacBook running 10.5.6 and I also have Bento 3. Recently Bento (Filemaker) told me that I would have to complete a few steps before upgrading to the new MobileMe calendar. So I followed the steps exactly. (URL: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7846/~/setting-up-bento-for-th e-new-mobileme-calendar)
After completing the steps. I proceeded to upgrade to the new calendar. Upgraded in less than a minute and then after opening up iCal on my mac & importing my calendars, thats when things started to go wrong. I kept getting error messages on almost every even I have ever created. I could barely even quit iCal due to all the error messages. Also, many of my events werent there after importing and the progress wheel kept spinning. Complete DISASTER! (*Luckily, I made plenty of backups before doing any of this so I was safe*) But Still I had NO iCal!
I searched and searched and could not find a complete solution. So what I did was the following and so far I believe it could be the solution to all of you guys's problems.
I followed these instructions on this website (URL: http://answers.makeitwork.com/how-to-reset-ical-on-your-mac-or-how-to-clean-up-y our-ical/) **I followed these exactly**
They are below:
+Export any Calendars you wish to retain after you reset by clicking on the Calendar you wish to retain and go to File > Export… > Export…+
+Repeat the above process for every Calendar you wish to keep. (Make sure you remember where you saved them)+
+Quit out of iCal+
+Go to Finder and click on your Home icon to display the Library folder.+
+Open that folder+
+Open the Calendars folder in the subsequent window+
+Delete all the contents within that folder+
+NOTE: If you open iCal at this point, it will initially appear that you cleared everything. Within minutes, however, everything will come back.+
+Go to your Utilities folder and open the Terminal application+
+Enter the following command: rm -rf ~/Library/{Caches,Caches/Metadata,Preferences,Application\ Support}/iCal+
+Exit out of Terminal+
+Open iCal and…Voila! Brand new iCal!+
But that did not completely work. So before doing this again, I went to my iPhone and quit syncing calendars on my mobile me account. And chose to ERASE every calendar on my iPhone.
After doing that and repeating the process above, I opened up iCal and boom, it worked. Then after I had the calendars setup the way I wanted on my MacBook, I proceeded to go to Preferences>MobileMe>Sync> and then chose to sync
I then went to Me.com and checked to see if the calendar was operable and it was 100%. I could do everything like before. Then I went back to my iPhone and just turned Calendar syncing back on in my mobileme preferences.
This has solved all my problems 100%. Hope this helps someone. Just remember that as long as you created a backup of your Calendar you should be safe.
-Cody-

Well... seems I didn't have any answer on this. I fiddled a bit more but I have to say that I really came to wits' end at this stage. A couple of observations though:
* I don't really understand this notion of a keyboard issue. My keyboard and its layout work properly but I will not be able to login regardless of login through GDM, KDM or Slim. Yet it's worth noting that in the case of GDM and SLIM the X server starts; I see the graphical interface, I click, etc. but when I type the trouble starts.
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If anybody has any clue, let me know... It's becoming very frustrating.
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I'm having strange things happen with sending/receiving "invitations" to people in other time zones.
Prior to this MobileMe calendar upgrade, sending/receiving invitations worked fine. I would schedule an event (obviously in my time zone), and if I invite a friend in a different time zone, the event would show up on her Google Calendar at the proper time. Between iCal and Google Calendar, the time zone translation was working properly. Likewise, when she scheduled an event and sent me an invitation, the event showed up in iCal at the proper time for me.
But now, after simply upgrading MobileMe calendar, events from me to her show up at the wrong time! It's as if the time zone translation is no longer occurring. Oddly, events that she sends to me still work correctly.
I have "Turn on time zone support" enabled in iCal, MobileMe calendar, and on the iPhone.
So this very nice feature that was working previously seems to have broken with the MobileMe calendar upgrade.
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How can the new MobileMe cloud calendars be published locally?

I tried upgrading to the new cloud-based MobileMe calendars twice before the forced upgrade date. Both times I was disappointed (as I was this time), because floating timezone events had their times shifted as though I worked for Apple (i.e. to Pacific Time). This is a bug which will just waste my time.
This is a question about something more pressing.
In the past I could publish my iCal calendars locally so that I could put them on a page accessible only to people inside the place I work.
On one of the previous upgrades, I checked that publishing locally still worked. The solution was not obvious, but it it did work: I could change the location of the calendar. Here is the solution in full:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12869330#12869330
Now when I try to use this solution, I see that the change location menu item seems to be permanently grayed out for calendars under my mobileme account. Does anyone have a new solution?
Here are some things I looked into without finding a solution:
Using symlinks to pretend the calendars were on my web server at work. The new calendars appear to be in one huge cache.
Looking in AppleScript to see if I could periodically export the .ics files over to the webserver. The dictionary for iCal is far too limited for this.
I could manually export .ics files as needed, but this is both painful and open for error---I really need an automatic solution which does not rely on having everyone at work pay for MobileMe.
Help!

OK...after better keyword choices I did find that the 'change location' solution does work, but only if the calendar is first shared with the world, and then has its location changed:
http://www.radbrooksolutions.co.uk/rs/Blog/Entries/2011/5/3_MobileMe_Calendar_Up date_and_PHP_iCalendar.html
Does anyone know if information in public calendars can be found in nefarious ways (like by Google)?
FWIW, I did try sharing privately to just myself, so that I could then subscribe to the calendar on the serving machine and push it out as a .ics file...but I cannot share a calendar with myself. Boooo.

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I need to reset the new calendar, clear it completely, then reimport data from my v3 calendar from a backup to see if it will work. Any clues? There appears to be zero data on this.
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I have been using mobileme now for sometime and i have not encounted any sync problems until recently.
The problem has started since i have upgraded the ical calendar in mobileme, i can sync my iphone with mobileme ical but ical on my mac will not sync with the new calendar on mobile me.
i am not sure what i am doing wrong any help would be much appreciated.

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1 - How do I even check how much memory I have left on this computer?
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2 - How do I check how many battery cycles are left?
There's no limit on the number of battery cycles, it's just that the more cycles you've used the more "worn out" your battery gets. You've got a 4-year-old machine, and if it's still got the original battery, it's probably about time for a replacement battery. You can check battery health using System Profiler... look at the Power section under Hardware.
3 - I want to upgrade to Microsoft Office '11 because I don't have Adobe Acrobat to creat pdf's and I need to be able to do this for school... Instead of buying acrobat, I figured I would just upgrade to Office '11
You don't need Office 2011 to create PDFs. Any application capable of printing can create PDFs on a Mac. Just choose File -> Print, but instead of clicking the Print button in the print dialog, click the PDF button and choose Save As PDF in the menu that appears.
4 - Does Apple still make batteries for this computer (from '07)? How much do they cost?
5 - How much does 1 more GB of memory cost?
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How can I get missing contacts, notes, calendar dates and reminders that are just on my old iphone onto the iCloud for transfer to my new iPhone upgrade?

Dear wise & wondeful people:
How can I get missing contacts, notes, calendar dates and reminders that are just on my old iphone onto the iCloud for transfer to my new iPhone upgrade? Half of my contacts, notes, ect. were on my iCloud so have happily moved to my new iPhone but the rest are completely resistant. For example, on my iCloud I have 14 missing contacts starting with the letter A alone, however they are happily viewable on my old iPhone 4S and won't budge over into the iCloud.
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I have now spent 4 hours today trying to get my iCal working - and I've been a Mac user since 1990.
I do have a calendar on Mobile Me -- calendar/old -whatever that is..
I have tried to update to the new calendar 4 times -- and I get an error message each time:
Your calendar upgrade for the new MobileMe Calendar couldn't finish because of a server error. Please try again.
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Server error ???? Thanks, Apple -- that helps a lot.
I am so messed up with iCal today that I'm ready to shut down and look for a glass of something strong ....
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It does sync between 5 Macs and my iPad and 2 iPods ---
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What a piece of crap - I hate iCal - and Mobile Me - and Me.Com -----
I'll call Apple on Monday and see if I can get some return for all the Apple Cares that I have paid for on everything.
This is not well engineered - or documented - or implemented - shame on Apple for doing this to me.

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New Calendar and first generation iPod Touch

Since the "old" calendar will be de-activated next month, I will no longer be able to sync my first generation iPod Touch to the new calendar. I use the old calendar now on my intel iMacs, MacBook Pro, iPad 2 and my old iPod Touch. Everything works well, but there is no software download available to upgrade the older iPod Touch to sync with my newer stuff after May 5. Basically my iPod Touch becomes a music player; I need the calendar function and do not feel the justification of buying a new iPod Touch when I already have one that works well and cost a lot of money when I bought it three years ago. Why can't Apple just leave things as they are? We have the choice of which calendar we want to use, and they are taking that option away with utter disregard for those of us who have already spent our $$$$ for an iPod Touch and still need to be able to use it. I urge Apple to either offer a software upgrade or to just leave the old calendar turned on. Have a little respect for your customers.

This is a user to user forum.
If you want Apple to read your comments, then you would need to leave them on the feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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