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Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - JEBB - 01-12-2013
When I try to import an ics file into Calendar I get a continuing stream of 403 errors 2 or 3 minutes apart which I never had with Snow Leopard's iCal. Sometimes I have ignored them and everything settled down but not with last night's import and into today. Today one of the two calendars wouldn't even show up on iCloud in Safari browser. That and the screwed up Spaces/Mission Control have me really pissed off with Mountain Lion. There a few programs I like that require Mountain Lion; maybe I should give up on them and go back to Snow Leopard! Am I alone?
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion iCloud & Calendar - Speedy - 01-12-2013
You are not alone. Google calendars work great for me!
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - Chakravartin - 01-12-2013
A 403 error in iCal/Calendar stems from an authentication problem with a calendar server.
The ics file has nothing to do with that.
The authentication failure explains why your changes aren't being pushed to your iCloud account.
Remove your calendar accounts and re-subscribe to them.
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - Fritz - 01-12-2013
Chakravartin wrote:
Remove your calendar accounts and re-subscribe to them.
what he said.
a similar thing happens with m gCal
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - chopper - 01-13-2013
As scary as it may sound, I installed Win 7 on my ML machine today, and if I can get the free/unauthenticated version of Photoshop to work I may give it a wing.
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - JEBB - 01-13-2013
Chakravartin wrote:
A 403 error in iCal/Calendar stems from an authentication problem with a calendar server.
The ics file has nothing to do with that.
The authentication failure explains why your changes aren't being pushed to your iCloud account.
Remove your calendar accounts and re-subscribe to them.
I'm not sure what you mean by Calendar accounts. I have two calendars under iCloud, one, Birthdays, which is the only one under Subscriptions and three under Yahoo which today doesn't recognize my password, although that password is recognized when entering my Yahoo account thru my browser. I turned off calendars in the iCloud System Preferences yesterday. This morning I turned calendars in iCloud System Preferences back on and imported the two ics files my wife and I had exported and saved to Dropbox. This morning's imports worked smoothly but I still got several 403 error messages.
So at the moment the calendar data displayed is ok.
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - deckeda - 01-13-2013
I'm not sure what you mean by Calendar accounts.
Calendar accounts are accounts setup in Calendar the app, just as Mail has accounts setup within it. This part has nothing to do with calendars per se.
Goto File > Preferences and one of the choices within prefs is for the accounts. Something is wrong with the account credentials with one of them. Or it's also possible there's a problem on the server's end. Either way, deleting the account and re-creating it might shake things up enough to fix.
You may need to delete/resubscribe to any online calendars again. I would get all of this going without any iCloud clouding the issue, at least first.
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - JEBB - 01-13-2013
Thank you very much for your help; this problem has really had me by the neck.
I deleted the accounts via the Calendar Preferences. Now there are no accounts. I went back to the calendar and imported the two ics files again from Dropbox as new calendars. I was able to change their names without any problem. These two calendars are now listed under the heading "On My Mac". I also subscribed to US Holidays using Help>Find Calendar Subscriptions. This seems to have put me back to the same position as with iCal in 10.6.8.
If I were to reenable iCloud>Calendars & Reminders, would you expect I would have the problems also return? So long as my wife and I exchange calendars via Dropbox I fear the Calendar problems (403 errors and inability to change calendar names) would continue. Under 10.6.8 iCal she and I would export our calendars to Dropbox. Each of us would delete the other's old calendar from iCal and import the new version into a newly created calendar. Why you ask - because importing the ics file and adding the events in that file to an existing calendar would yield multiple entries for the same events.
You've helped me get to the point where I have a useful Calendar. Now I will turn on iCloud Calendar & Reminders and see what happens. I would like the calendars to show up on my iPad via iCloud. With the information you've given me I can always go back what amounts to the 10.6.8 status.
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - deckeda - 01-13-2013
Subscribing to a calendar AND manually importing it of course will cause duplicate entries. Identify who the calendar maintainer is or if both should have edit access and go from there. Exporting and importing a calendar elsewhere in order to get an update to it isn't necessary.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2690?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57542557-285/three-methods-for-sharing-an-icloud-calendar/
http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/productivity/publish-and-share-calendars-with-calendar-and-icloud/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/28/apples-icloud-driving-your-family-crazy-heres-how-to-restore-synching-sanity/
Getting the calendars onto the iPad is easy. You just tell iTunes to include it when syncing.
Re: Rant - problems with Mountain Lion, iCloud & Calendar - JEBB - 01-13-2013
The big problem for me with all those references is that they are for Mountain Lion. My wife doesn't want to give up Appleworks so her computer remains at 10.6.8.