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iCal problem with Leopard Upgrade

If you upgrade to Leopard 10.5.2, you may experience problems with iCal. When I opened iCal all of my repeating events where shown twice, and I couldn't edit anything.

If this happens to you, you can fix this problem by removing the iCal cache file. Here are the steps to fix:

1 - Quit iCal.

2 - Open a Finder window. From your home directory, go to Library and then Calendars. You should see a file called Calendar Cache. You can either delete this file (scary) or click on it and rename it.

3 - Restart iCal. It will tell you that it is rebuilding the cache. Once it completes, everything will work as it did before this "upgrade".
Rating: 96% positive, 31 total Votes
Categories: iCal Leopard bugs
Added: on Feb 12, 2008 at 9:33 am
Added By: an anonymous user

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Worked perfectly!
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 12, 2008 at 10:10 am
Yes works great. Thank you.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 12, 2008 at 11:33 am
Great - working fine now - many thanks
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 12, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Solved the problem. thanks
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 12, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Thanks so much. Ran into this problem with the 10.5.2 update, and this fix was the answer.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 12, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Cheers and thank you for sharing. Has saved me a great deal of time, effort and stress.
Peter (Bangkok)
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 12, 2008 at 7:55 pm
That fixed it, thanks:-)
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 13, 2008 at 1:28 am
it works perfectly... thx so much.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 13, 2008 at 7:12 am
Thanks for the fix. Worked for me.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 14, 2008 at 8:42 am
Worked! Thank you. Had to send Calendar to Trash, couldn't rename
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 14, 2008 at 9:01 am
Didn't work for me. Thanks for sharing the tip, though.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 14, 2008 at 10:43 am
worked a treat - thanks!
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 14, 2008 at 2:00 pm
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL BABY!!!
Thank you for a great tip!
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 14, 2008 at 4:17 pm
The problem is deeper than this. Removing the cache does cause the events to reappear, but they don't get updated if you're syncing (through .Mac) with another computer.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 14, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thank you so much! I tried so much other stuff to no avail. Thanks again.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 16, 2008 at 1:55 am
God Bless you MAN! This works perfectly!
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 16, 2008 at 7:21 am
That was the perfect fix. Thanks.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 16, 2008 at 3:32 pm
HOORAY!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 18, 2008 at 8:59 am
Thank you!!!
– Added by gretchengh on Feb 18, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! 3 kids, home business, volunteer work, need I say more? My life is in iCal.
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 25, 2008 at 8:52 am
Thot my life for the next week was toast! Your fix saved my bacon! The only appointment I missed before finding your fix was breakfast this morning;-) No, really! (Couldn't resist!)
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 09, 2008 at 5:58 am
Thanks, that's exactly what it needed to work! Excellent tip.
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 12, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Yee-Haa. Another fix for an upgrade. How "intuitive". GO PC
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 29, 2008 at 12:13 pm
You helped in a way Apple's Support website could not. Thanks for sharing!
– Added by an anonymous user on Jun 09, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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