Setting a default iCal calendar.

Hey.
Just finished moving everything over to iCloud. All went resonably well.
Problem is this:
I have 3 iCal calendars (red, green & blue), all shared over the cloud. That all works as it should.
From my primary iMac, I create all calendars entries. My primary cal (95%) is red, but now, every new entry i create defaults to my green calendar. Pretty annoying since i have to manually change each entry, but even more annoying since before the could it could default red and now i can't find a way to do it.
On the ipad it defaults to blue, on the iphone red. Go figure.
Thanks.

Try this:
1. Open the mail file that has the calendar invite embedded in the message and drag the calendar attachment (file) to your desktop.
2. Right click (or option click on the calendar file you dragged to your desktop.
3. Select "Get Info"
4. A couple of entries down in this window is an item called "Open with:". Select this.
5. In the drop down menu, select "iCal".
6 (optional) Below this you'll see a button called "Change All..." click this if you want all existing attachments of this type to be open with iCal.
That should do it. Best of luck.
Carl

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