PLEASE HELP!!! Ical is BLANK!
Think I did something very stupid and managed to delete some important files which really messed up my Mac, but I have managed to import most of the files from my back-up external hard drive and things are back to normal... almost!
Problem is my ical has been completely wiped. It contains nothing. I was wondering how to get all the information back... will it be stored on my external hard drive somewhere (I backed up my hard drive and applications before I deleted things).
Please help, I am new to Mac and can't find where it stores all the files for various applications
Thanks
Welcome to the discussions, Lanfears.The calendar files are stored in the Application Support/iCal in the Library folder in your home directory, so if you can find where that was backed up just use it to replace the new one that iCal will have made.
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