iCal crashes on startup
 

Help. iCal crashes on startup. I've reinstalled, replaced the .pkg, checked everything I can think of including replacing a font rumored to have once caused problems. I don't have anything critical in the program that I need to preserve so wiping it out completely and reinstalling is perfectly fine...except that even that doesn't seem to work.

here are the error details I get when it crashes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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The presence of unsanity's APE and audio hijack server in this crash thread looks suspicious to me. Turn off APE. See if iCal works. Turn off audio hijack. See if iCall works.

iCal crashes on startup...still
 

Sadly neither worked. I Uninstalled Ape and turned of Audio Hijack. For what it's worth, here is the most recent crash report:

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Both APE and Audo Hijack still seem to be active. Revisit your uninstall procedures.

And tell us what is different since the last time that you ran iCal successfully. What did you install or remove? Fonts? Peripherals? OS Updates? etc.

I had a similar problem. It turned out to be one of my calendars. I fixed it by going to ~/Library/Application Support/Calendars, moving out all my calendars, and moving them back one at a time and launching iCal each time. (iCal 'knows' your list of calendars and will create blank calendars when you move them out - just replaces those blank calendars with your real .ics calendar file)

iCal 1.5 Crash fixed also with same procedure
 

I have been having the same problem and I just removed the Calanders in iCal 1.5.5 then started it... worked great! then I just drug each one back in until it crashed.... it was the HOME calander for me... so... next... when running (iCal) I double clicked on the HOME calander that I had drug to my desktop... it reloaded (imported) it back and now works great! :-)

the location of the Calaners have aparently been moved by apple.. to this folder (OS X 10.3.8 Panther) ~/(user)/library/Calendars hope this helps anyone... :cool:

The user meant:

~user/Library/Calendars/

fixed ical crash at startup
 

>Help. iCal crashes on startup. I've reinstalled, replaced the .pkg, checked >everything I can think of including replacing a font rumored to have once >caused problems. I don't have anything critical in the program that I need to >preserve so wiping it out completely and reinstalling is perfectly fine...except >that even that doesn't seem to work.

I had the exact same problem and I figure out how to fix it without system wiping my computer...

I deleted iCal off my computer as well as the com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist & com.apple.iCal.plist found in Library>Preferences

Then I went to MacHD>System>Library>PrivateFrameworks & dragged CALcore.framework to the trash as well

Empty trash ...insert Mac Osx Install DVD>System>Installation>Packages>iCal.pkg and reinstall your iCal

after that I opened up iCal in my apps and it worked!!!

hope that helps everyone :)

Where are my Calendars in Tiger? In /Users/rskoss/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources/ there are folders with names like 7E4346E7-63F5-4879-B2D6-708C5DCE075E.calendar. In each of these folders there are 3 files: corestorage.ics, index, and info.plist. Do each of these folders represent one of my Calendars?

I made another folder named backup in the Sources directory. I moved all of the .calendar folders into this backup folder and started iCal but it still crashed. It also showed all of my calendar entries for the 2 seconds it was up before it crashed - so I'm confused. If those folders were my calendars and I moved them, how did iCal find them?

Okay, I'm stumped. After posting a question on my iCal immediately dying (following my attempt to respond to an Outloook MIME invitation) I removed all vestiges of iCal from Tiger on my G4 (couldn't find the CALcore.framework file anywhere, though).

Anyway, I cannot find a way to reinstall just iCal from the Tiger DVD - it demands that I restart and then warns about resetting everything. Which I obviously don't want to do. Is there a magic key combo that will get me to the part of the DVD which will allow me to select only iCal installation?

TIA

BobF

You should be able to use the Tiger DVD to do a "Custom" install where you check only the iCal files and uncheck everything else.
Otherwise, you could use the 3rd-party utility "Pacifist" (http://www.charlessoft.com/) to extract the files you need from your Install DVD.

Same Problem
 

I'm having the same problem as described above.
I've tried everything.. deleted everything listed, reinstalled both with Pacifist and through the iCal.pkg on my CD, and nothing works. It dies right when it starts up. Strangely, it works on a new user account that I made.
Trust me when I say that I deleted everything iCal related in my home directory.
The only thing that could be going on now is that it is crashing from some kinda extension or widget conflict.

Hope someone can help.

-v

generic answer for user-specific problems
 

You have determined that the problem is only with the one user account.
The problem thus is almost certainly due to something under your home folder.
And it likely is something under ~/Library
( ~ = your home folder)
The most likely thing is a bad preference file under ~/Library/Preferences
You could start by removing the preference files for the apps you are having trouble with.
If the problem persists, you need to narrow the problem down - you could start by moving (via drag & drop) the whole "Preferences" folder that is under ~/Library to the Desktop, then log out and log in again. A default copy of the Preferences folder will have been recreated. Does that improve things? If so, you could use a divide & conquer approach to figure out which of the preference files is causing the problem - move half of the preference files back into the Preferences folder, log out & in again, etc.

If the problem persists, try the same thing with the other sub-folders of ~/Library. E.g. with ~/Library/Caches, ~/Library/InputManagers, ~/Library/Fonts, ~/Library/PreferencePanes, ~/Library/Application Support, ~/Library/Application Enhancers, contents of ~/Desktop, etc.
Also remove any files owned by your user in /Library/Caches (the Library folder at the top-level of the drive)

iCal has been crashing on restarts for months but it would always open when double-clicked from Dock. Tonight it crashes full time.

Last night I used CCC to clone the main drive to another HD. That has been the major change. However iCal worked fine this morning, I believe. The cloned copy of iCal is broken, too!

I tried all the solutions (most of hayne's anyway and not Pacifist, yet) plus reinstalling the OS10.4.5 upgrade and creating a new user. iCal continues its stubborn streak. Tried removing the two calendar widgets too.

Sure would hate to lose access to that calendar :-(

The solution that worked for me: installing Tiger on the other drive in my computer. Taking the broken iCal out of the startup drive and Option-dragging the new iCal from the 2nd drive to the startup. All the birthdays, appointments, etc. were still there. I only had to adjust the Prefs to suit my needs.

Only problem is the working iCal is v2.0 The broken iCal was v2.0.3.

Remove Home Fixed It
 

I removed the Home calendar and launched iCal and it worked. Then I imported my Home calendar (picked the option to remove alarms thingiee) and that worked too.

THANK YOU MacOSXHints folks & users!

Adam

:)

iCal crash was due to iSync problem
 

I tried most of the suggestions in this thread but iCal kept crashing after a couple of seconds. Then I deactivated (removed checkmark) "Calendars" in System Preferences / .Mac. That's where the Sync settings are controlled.
Now iCal worked again but I had no syncing for it with my iDisk.
When I reactivated "Calendars" it reported that it wanted to add 40 !!calendars to iCal. I cancelled that crazy task and subsequently went to the Advanced Tab. There I unregistered my computer.
This unregistering had the purpose to remove all compromised backup data on my iDisk that was most likely responsible for iSync wanting to add 40 ficticious calendars to my only 4 calendars (Home, work, and two more) in iCal.
Once I had unregistered, I immediately registered the same computer again, but this time under a different name (I don't know if a different name was needed, but it did not harm). Then I was asked how to handle the data in the first iSync. I choose to delete all data on the iDisk.
That done, the sync worked fine and ever after iCal works again. No further crashes.
By the way, this whole problem occurred when I had only 2 GB of free space on my HD for a short while. Don't ever have your disk get that full.

The original problem was a bad sync with iDisk. The fix was/is to simply go to iSync preferences and "reset all sync". You will be prompted to tell whether you want to sync the computer to the iDisk or vice versa. Choose one or the other, let it sync and you are good to go.

iCal still crashes
 

Hi,

I've tried deleting all the calendars but I must still be missing something because when I launch iCal it creates Home and Work and 6 other unnamed calendars. I've tried deleting everything as follows:

~/Library/Application Support/iCal/*
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iCal/*/*
~/Library/Caches/metadata/iCal/*
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal*.plist
~/Library/Safe Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist

I think there must be somewhere I'm still missing because there are events in some of the calendars, so these are being recreated from somewhere. I just don't know where.

Here's the crash log, I don't know if it's any use (it doesn't tell me anything)!

Thanks in advance,
D