Where My Calendar's Go?
I am the type of guy that wants to try the latest and greatest of everything. I do sometimes run beta software for that reason. Of course, there are certain applications I would never run in beta, and one of those - should have been my calendar software.
I use iCal, I subscribe to MobileMe to have my calendar synced over the air, in real time, via my desktop, iPhone and in the cloud on me.com. So when I upgraded to the beta, I was hoping to take advantage of some of the newer features, as I said it was a mistake. I should note, other's are also finding out it was a mistake but at least I was able to recover.
I received the email from Apple that I can now upgrade, so I did:
So I decided to upgrade and the upgrade said it went successfully but I had to finish a few steps:
I went through each step, starting with the iPhone steps. For some reason, my calendar items were not showing up on my iPhone. I tried everything. Resyncing, rebooting, deleting my MobileMe account from my iPhone and adding it back. Nothing. So I went on with the steps to get it working on my computer. My iCal on my computer worked just fine. But my iPhone wouldn't show my calendars.
I then tried Apple MobileME support, but that didn't go well. The live chat person said, "Okay, since the beat is not fully released we are unable to assist with any issues that may occur. We recommend leaving your feedback. If the beta is not working out for you, you can leave the beta." So that is what I did.
I left the beta. But leaving the beta was scary. On the first try, it said, "I am sorry but you cannot downgrade at this time." I tried again and it downgraded me. Then my desktop calendar went missing, my iPhone calendar was also gone. The only calendar that worked was the one up on me.com. I was able to overwrite my desktop calendar with me.com through MobileMe Sync and then it eventually showed up on my desktop. It also eventually showed up back on my iPhone after deleting and adding back my MobileMe account.
Lesson learned: Calendars, for me at least, is way too important for me to run a beta. Losing my calendar, even on just my iPhone (and my desktop for 5 minutes) was devastating. Yes, I am obsessive about backing up my computers but still, I can't back up someone else's cloud, can I?
Published July 23, 2010 by:
Barry
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posted by Rob on: Aug 5, 2010 02:55pm
Same thing with me. iPhone just wouldn't sync my calendars and leaving the beta was disastrous with all calendars disappearing except the cloud one. No support available. Eew.
posted by mishuma on: Aug 9, 2010 11:10pm
Rob, I have the same problem. The only calendar I have left that works is the one on the cloud, yet I can sync it to my iMac or my Macbook. Apple MobileMe support is willing to intervene, but they want to log onto my MobileMe account and if they delete that, I'm totally screwed. What did you do?
posted by Nicola on: Jul 26, 2010 07:34am
Wow, same thing with me! Thanks for the tip - deleting the account on iPhone then entering the info in again. The annoying thing is that Calendar Beta is only workable with Snow Leopard, so, I had no choice but to leave the Beta - silly !
posted by Stuart on: Aug 24, 2010 07:34am
I had the same problem with no messages appearing on by OS4.0.2 iPhone. After a LOT of resetting etc. I was about to opt out of the Beta. But I found that if I set the syncing to "ALL" instead of 1 month. It all seemed to flow through after that. Weird though. I assume the dates for the syncing is out of wack.
posted by Jamesbeer80 on: Sep 29, 2010 09:52am
I was about to do the same when i saw all my entries on my iPhone were gone but then i realised I had all the calenders un ticked so didn't have to change a thing. god bless apple