Why is iCal synching (and freezing)?
Gang,
I'm new to the forum. I tried to search but didn't find anything related to my question. If it's been covered elsewhere, please point me in the right direction.
I recently set up a new iMac at home, using Target Disk Mode to transfer the user accounts (2) and apps from my older Mac (running OS 10.3.9) to this one (running 10.4.3).
I run iCal on this computer and my work computer (a G5 running 10.3.9). I have a Home calendar and a Work calendar, and I back up each to a flash drive, which I use to back up the other computer (Work to the home computer, and Home to the work computer). Hope that makes sense.
In order to do this backup, I delete the calendar from iCal, then Import the updated version from my flash drive.
This has worked fine so far, but when I quit iCal, it pops up a message saying it is synchronizing, and it has a button that says "Abort and Quit."
Well, I don't know what it is synchronizing because I don't have .Mac, and the only synchronizing that I want to happen automatically is to my iPod, which it does just fine via iTunes.
The "Abort and Quit" button does nothing. I have to Force Quit iCal to get out of this.
Any idea what is going on? I can make normal changes to my calendars in iCal without this happening, but it has done it a couple times now after doing my delete/import bit from my backup file. Could there be a problem going back and forth between my work and home computers because of the OS difference or the way they handle backups (eg, iSync vs iTunes)? Or something screwy that got carried over from my old computer during the Target Disk transfer?
Hope this made sense. Any thoughts appreciated!
_dennis
1.9GHz iMac G5 17" Mac OS X (10.4.3)
Anyone? Bueller?
Every time I import my work calendar from my flash drive into iCal, when I later quit iCal, it says it is synchronizing my changes, and gives me an "Abort and Quit" button that does nothing. I have to force quit every time. And it has nothing to sync to, AFAIK. What the heck?
I was doing this on my older computer (G4) running Panther without any problems. Now with the G5 and Tiger, it's giving me this grief.
TIA,
_d
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