Recovering iCal from Time Machine

In syncing my iPhone with my desktop, all calenders and events were wiped out. Trying to recover the data from Time Machine has been unsuccessful. Whenever I download the data from earlier, the calender does not show the missing events. I chose "replace" when it asked, yet still nothing. Any help?

ssamnelson,
What file(s) did you replace using Time Machine?
Open your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Calendars Folder, and locate the Calendar Cache file. Quit iCal and move the Calendar Cache file to your Desktop.
Additionally, navigate to your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder, and find the com.apple.iCal.plist file. Drag that file to your desktop, log out/in or restart and let us know if iCal finds the missing events/calendars.
;~)

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Restoring iCal from Time Machine

I accidently deleted my calendars from iCal and then my blank iCal synced to mobileme and my iPhone so I lost everything. When I try to restore my iCal from Time Machine, it initially shows all my calendars when I open iCal, then it syncs to mobileme and I get a blank iCal again.
Here's what I do:
1. Quit iCal.
2. Delete Calendar folder from Home>Library.
3. Restore Calendar folder from Time Machine using the gear icon and "Restore to ..."
Then when I open iCal it restores perfectly, then syncs to mobileme and erases again.
After talking to an apple tech, he suggested going into iCal's preferences and deleting the mac.com and trying the above steps again. That doesn't work. I even tried going into System Preferences>MobileMe>Sync>Advanced>Reset Sync Data to replace info on mobileme with sync info from my computer. That didn't work either.
What step am I missing to restore my iCal from Time Machine?

kanagashi,
You are welcome...thanks for your kind comments.
I'm still having sync issues with MobileMe though, the "On My Mac" calendars aren't syncing to MobileMe.
The "On My Mac" calendars will not sync to MobileMe. Did you complete Roger's checklist under the "Reconnect to the internet. Your MobileMe calendars will disappear as before. Now carry out the following process with each of the 'On My Mac' calendars:" paragraph?
Syncing should be possible after carrying out those steps.

Recovering Calendars from Time Machine

I want to recover calendars from Time Machines. What files/folders do I recover?
I imagine I need ~/Library/Calendars.
What other files/folders would I also need to recover?
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Stephen

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How can I restore iCal from time machine

Hi can I restore the data from iCal from time machine?

The data is in ~/Library/Calendars
The folders have gibberish names; you can't tell which folder is which calendar, so you probably need to restore the entire folder.
But if you have your Calendars synched via iCloud, there may not be anything there, since iCloud is where the "real" data resides.

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I need to recover all my emails - thousands of messages in numerous mailboxes - from Time Machine. What is the best way to do this?

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
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How to Restore iCal from Time Machine

Dont now why all my events for next month and future are erase. I want to recover the last time machine back up but dont now how. Can some one bring me the step by step indications?

I'm restoring my partially missing calendar entries from a general Time Machine backup, following FerdII's steps. Just to be helpful, I'll answer the questions about the gear icon and the home folder.
The "Actions" menu (with a Gear icon) appears in any Finder window when you choose Show Toolbar from the View menu. You need to set the Finder window to Show Toolbar before you enter the Time Machine to locate and restore your calendar files -- that will allow you to get at the Actions menu when you're in Time Machine.
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Trouble restoring ical from time machine

My iCal has somehow been corrupted. It shows up to the present month, but when I select the next month (October 2012), the calendar won't change and the name of the month dissapears. Subsequent months also fail to appear.
I thought of attemping to restore an earlier version of my calendar to solve my problem. After closing iCal (and every other program I had open) I went into Time Machine and selected previous calendar files to be restored by going into Home > Library > Calendars and selecting restore on the entire "Calendar" folder. After restoring the folder, I opened iCal and it was restored to my earlier calendars and cycled through the months like it normally should. Within three minutes, though, it reverted to my corrupt calendar(s).
I then deleted the "Calendars" folder from my laptop (Home > Library> Calendars) and once again restored from Time Machine. After restoring the earlier calendars, I unplugged my external hard drive backup before opening iCal. Again, when I first opened iCal, it worked normally, but within a couple of minutes my corrupt calendar(s) popped up again and iCal once again refused to cycle through future months.
My questions are, am I doing the restore wrong? Where is iCal restoring the corrupt calendars from after I restored earlier calendars from Time Machine?
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4 GB Ram
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I just had a hard disk crash, and had to do it. I couldn't figure it out until I called Apple Support, my support guy put me on hold and then told me about Migration Assistant. I guess they lose so few full disks, they don't include a full disk restore out of the Time Machine interface. Give me bonus points for remembering that you had the same question and coming back to answer it.
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Thanks for this, Eric. When you say do a backup, you mean do a new backup? using Time Machine? - of the current contents of my laptop? Which will include my almost empty Gmail Sent Messages mailbox.
At the moment (pre-new backup) there is no AoisIMAP item in my Library/Mail/V2 folder - what there is, in terms of Gmail, is:
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Thanks so much for helping me with these questions, Eric!
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Jawad
Since you haven't upgraded your iPhone from 4.3 there will also not be an iCloud back-up.,,, so.....
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4. Start keying....
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Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2
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I need your help! My photos, music, videos, and other data is gone.. Especially the photos i would like to have back, they were stored in my Aperture library (about 13.000 pictures).
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If you have read all this, thank you for that. Hope you see my frustration and hopefully have some ideas of what to do?.. Recover from the original hdd - recover backup hdd - or fix the files / copy them from the corrupted backup somehow? Please help...
From Glenn :-)

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Restore iCal from Time Machine - (Lion)

Should be easy - but not for me.
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