Why are my iCal events (future events) just dissapearing?
Not using iCloud or mobile me. I am syncing my iPhone via iTunes.
Yesterday afternoon I created several new iCal events for today's and next week's calendar. This morning when I opened my iCal none of my new events were present. This morning, I recreated some of tomorrow's events. Closed/re-opend iCal to find the events had disappeared again. Also, seeminly unconnected but equally buggy - event alarms can be 1,2 3 hours late - radomly. ughhh!
In addition, I'm unable to delete some of the other events.
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I've tried "refresh" and "refresh all" from the Calendar drop down menu. This does nothing to help the problem... not that I really expected it would.
Thanks for any help you can provide. I'm going crazy!
Mac OS X 10.7.4; iCal 5.0.3Fixed my own problem. Ultamately a user error but tied to the many threads about the month view defaulting events to "all day" vs. hourly increment. I knew that was the case, so when editing events from month view I made sure to add/change the time, but negected to look at "To" date. If my event was for an hour, simply adding the hour pushed the day to span across dates so the event was really 25 hours. Looked OK in the month view (just showed as a dot) but the day and week were all filled and casued the event to appear twice on the second day in list view (iPhone). In the case of repeat events, sometimes "To" date ended up as the end date for the repeat cycle... which really messed every thing up... I believe causing what looked like duplicates, etc.
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Assistance needed please for an iCal issue on Snow Leopard (iMac).
A bunch of formerly deleted iCal events have suddenly reappeared in iCal. I thought this would be easily resolved by using Time Machine (external HD) to restore the calendar files to when they were workings ok (a couple of days ago). Although this initially appeared to work, all the previously deleted events have suddenly reappeared.
If I was using iCloud I'd assume it was some kind of syncing issue, but I'm not. Least I can rule that out.Cactus,
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1. iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting
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... to name a few.
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I am slowly feeling the iMac and its applications being pushed to the end of the line. Excuse me, Apple, but my iMac doesn't have a touch screen (yet) and I would like to have some tried and true features (aka commands) survive. Don't get me started on scroll up/down arrows lost with the Mountain Lion "upgrade." I would have stayed happy with Snow Leopard except I had to "upgrade" for iCloud to work with my iPhone.
Oh, iRaspberry to you, Cupertino!!!
Can anyone clue me in: Are the iCal menu features described above gone forever or do I need to tweak a setting?Fixed my own problem. Ultamately a user error but tied to the many threads about the month view defaulting events to "all day" vs. hourly increment. I knew that was the case, so when editing events from month view I made sure to add/change the time, but negected to look at "To" date. If my event was for an hour, simply adding the hour pushed the day to span across dates so the event was really 25 hours. Looked OK in the month view (just showed as a dot) but the day and week were all filled and casued the event to appear twice on the second day in list view (iPhone). In the case of repeat events, sometimes "To" date ended up as the end date for the repeat cycle... which really messed every thing up... I believe causing what looked like duplicates, etc.
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checking the server configuration for iCal -> found nothing that could help me or at least reveal a hint to where the problem lies
checking all client's iCal and CalDAV settings -> again, found nothing that could help me.
Maybe even though I have tried checking some settings as mentioned above, it could be possible that I have overlooked something..
Regards out front for helping me solve this issue and hoping to hear from the community,
Moritz
btw, this is not our/my only issue with iCal...;-) So look out for further threads to come.Have you tried this:
iCal > Preferences > Advanced > Turn on time zone support
(http://i.imgur.com/iiCra.png)
If that doesn't fix it automatically, top right of iCal change time zone to CT.
(http://i.imgur.com/rAKHA.png)
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ffFixed my own problem. Ultamately a user error but tied to the many threads about the month view defaulting events to "all day" vs. hourly increment. I knew that was the case, so when editing events from month view I made sure to add/change the time, but negected to look at "To" date. If my event was for an hour, simply adding the hour pushed the day to span across dates so the event was really 25 hours. Looked OK in the month view (just showed as a dot) but the day and week were all filled and casued the event to appear twice on the second day in list view (iPhone). In the case of repeat events, sometimes "To" date ended up as the end date for the repeat cycle... which really messed every thing up... I believe causing what looked like duplicates, etc.
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Below is a segment of my code;
try {
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catch (Exception e) {
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try {
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public void startDocument() {
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System.err.println("End Document");
public void startElement(String uri, String name, String qName, Attributes atts) {
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System.out.println("This is parsing");
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = start; i < start + length; i++)
sb.append(ch);
String content = sb.toString();
if (CurrentElement.equals("eid"))
temp.setEventID( (Integer.valueOf(content)).intValue() ) ;
else if (CurrentElement.equals("sd"))
temp.setShort_description(content);
else if (CurrentElement.equals("ld"))
temp.setLong_description(content);
else if ( (CurrentElement.equals("dt")))
temp.setDate_Time( formatter.parse(content, new ParsePosition(0)) );
else if (CurrentElement.equals("repeat"))
temp.setRepeat_pattern( (Integer.valueOf(content)).intValue() );
else if (CurrentElement.equals("valid"))
temp.setValid_period(content);
else if (CurrentElement.equals("status")) {
temp.setStatus( (Integer.valueOf(content)).intValue() );
else {}
public void endElement(String uri, String name, String qName) {
System.err.println("DEBUG" + temp.toString()); /*debug*/
if (name.equals("event")) {
try {
/*debug*/ temp.setUserID(1);
/*debug*/ System.err.println("DEBUG: " + temp.toString());
sendSQL(temp, db_connection);
//temp = new Event();
catch (SQLException e) {
System.err.println(e);
}//end catch
}//end try
Where event is a public class Event {
//fields
private int userID = 1; // = 1 only applies for testing
private int eventID;
private String short_description;
private String long_description;
private Date date_time = null;
private int repeat_pattern;
private String valid_period;
private int status; //1 for new, 0 for modification and -1 for delete
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
//Constructors
//every event requires the following: userID eventID and short_Description
public Event(int uID, int eID, String shortDescrp) {
setUserID(uID);
setEventID(eID);
setShort_description(shortDescrp);
public Event(int uid, int eid, String sd,
String ld, Date d_t, int r_p, String v_p, int s) {
setUserID(uid);
setEventID(eid);
setShort_description(sd);
setLong_description(ld);
setDate_Time(d_t);
setRepeat_pattern(r_p);
setValid_period(v_p);
setStatus(s);
//set
public void setUserID (int x) { this.userID = x ;}
public void setEventID (int x) { this.eventID = x ;}
public void setShort_description (String x) { this.short_description = x ;}
public void setLong_description (String x) { this.long_description = x ;}
public void setDate_Time(Date x) { this.date_time = x ;}
public void setRepeat_pattern (int x) { this.repeat_pattern = x ;}
public void setValid_period (String x) { this.valid_period = x ;}
public void setStatus (int x) { this.status = x; }
//get
public int getUserID() { return this.userID;}
public int getEventID() { return this.eventID;}
public String getShort_description() { return this.short_description;}
public String getLong_description() { return this.long_description;}
public Date getDate_Time() { return this.date_time;}
public int getRepeat_pattern() { return this.repeat_pattern;}
public String getValid_period() { return this.valid_period;}
public int getStatus() { return this.status; }
//Event to SQL statements;
public String toSQL() {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
///if ( status == 1) {
sb.append( "INSERT INTO events SET" );
sb.append( " userID = " + userID + ", ");
sb.append( "eventID = " + eventID + ", " );
sb.append( "short_description = " + "\'" + short_description + "\'" + ", "); //String
sb.append( "long_description = " + "\'" + long_description + "\'" + ", "); //String
sb.append( "date_time = " + "\'" + formatter.format(date_time) + "\'" + ", ");
sb.append( "repeat_pattern = " + repeat_pattern + ", " );
sb.append( "valid_period = " + "\'" + valid_period + "\'" ); //String
sb.append( ";");
//} else if ( status == 2) {
System.err.println(sb.toString());
return sb.toString();
} My question is: I have taken my SQL query generated by toSQL() method in events and it worked.
Here is the funny thing:
Everything is correct syntax wise: No complaints what soever
The mysql part works: Tested separately.
So I tend to think that the problem lies within the SAX parser. I have written SAX2 parsers on this machine before and they have worked too. I tried inserting println statements all over startElement endElement etc etc only to find out that the SAX parser did not call any of the methods that I overided!! Why is that so?
Can you guys spot where my SAX parser fails?I see.
I try to correct this problem by removing super();
so right now my code looks like this:
static Event temp = new Event(0, 0, "null", "null", new Date(), 0, "null", 0);
static String CurrentElement = null;
static File XMLpath;
static Connection db_connection;
static XMLReader xr;
static DefaultHandler XMLSAXhandler;
//Constructor, Build the SAX Parser
public EventXMLParser(File path, Connection connection) {
try {
this.XMLpath = path;
this.db_connection = connection;
this.xr = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
this.XMLSAXhandler = new DefaultHandler(); //create a new own handler
this.xr.setContentHandler(XMLSAXhandler);
this.xr.setErrorHandler(XMLSAXhandler);
//System.out.println("DEBUG: db_connection is " + db_connection.toString());
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Constructor Error!");
e.printStackTrace();
}This time, I created a new instance of default handler() which can be referenced by as the objects's XMLSAXhandler. However, that did not solve the problem, why does the problem still persist?
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