iCal: Erase/delete events

riklar · 08-16-2009, 11:43 PM

Hello,

I have entered an event to ical, which repeats itself everymonth.
I want now to erase it.
I click on the event, then I click on Delete in my keyboard. I get a dialog box asking me If I want to delete all future event. I click to OK and the event is not erased. It continues to appear.

How can I convince this event to disappear forever.

TIA

iMac 24 Mac OS X (10.5.8) iPhone 3G 3.0.1

anika123 · 08-17-2009, 02:39 PM

Try this.

Make a back up of ical by using backup from the 'file' menu in case things go wrong.
navigate to ~/library/calendars in the Finder
open each folder that has the crazy names something like 037CE9F9-C722-42BA-A3A6-8848AE1A1BC4.calendar
These represent your calendars and you may only have a couple.
In each folder double click the 'info.plist' file and look at near the bottom to see which Calendar the folder contains.
When you find the right folder double click the 'Events' folder and look at the dates on the icons.
Find the ones that correspond to the dates of the 'Event' you want to stop. You can double click them and when ical opens make sure it is the right one.
Close ical.
Drag the ones you want deleted to the trash.
Restart ical.

08-16-2009, 11:43 PM	#1
riklar Prospect Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 44	iCal: Erase/delete events Hello, I have entered an event to ical, which repeats itself everymonth. I want now to erase it. I click on the event, then I click on Delete in my keyboard. I get a dialog box asking me If I want to delete all future event. I click to OK and the event is not erased. It continues to appear. How can I convince this event to disappear forever. TIA iMac 24 Mac OS X (10.5.8) iPhone 3G 3.0.1

08-17-2009, 02:39 PM	#2
anika123 All Star Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 860	Try this. Make a back up of ical by using backup from the 'file' menu in case things go wrong. navigate to ~/library/calendars in the Finder open each folder that has the crazy names something like 037CE9F9-C722-42BA-A3A6-8848AE1A1BC4.calendar These represent your calendars and you may only have a couple. In each folder double click the 'info.plist' file and look at near the bottom to see which Calendar the folder contains. When you find the right folder double click the 'Events' folder and look at the dates on the icons. Find the ones that correspond to the dates of the 'Event' you want to stop. You can double click them and when ical opens make sure it is the right one. Close ical. Drag the ones you want deleted to the trash. Restart ical.