iCal Preferences not finding new calendars

OmniFocus OmniFocus 1 for Mac
#1

Hey, all.

I’m a new OmniFocus 1.10.6 user and am enjoying it very much. In trying to get all my ducks in a row, I nuked all my old and useless iCal calendars and created new ones. Alas, in iCal Preferences within OmniFocus, only the old calendars are visible.

Q: Does anybody know how I can force OmniFocus to fetch the list of calendars from iCal to update the iCal Preferences?

#2

Are your iCal calendars in iCloud, or local. If I remember correctly, OF only allows you to sync to local (on your Mac) calendars

#3

Hi, Nick.

Good question and, yes, I’d just left everything on iCloud when rebuilding. In the end, I had to get fairly extreme in resetting iCal:

rm -rf ~/Library/{Caches,Caches/Metadata,Preferences,Application\ Support}/iCal
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/SyncServices/Local/*

We’ll see whether it works properly, but at least the list populated correctly in OmniFocus. The real question now is whether these local copies will be merged with the iCloud calendars. I may have to chase iCloud Support to get the local calendars merged with the cloud.

Cheers and thanks for a helpful reply. It gave me a direction to pursue.

trane

#4

Adding: Remerging my local calendars with iCloud has removed the local calendars entirely. It seems that there won’t be any way for me to do this. Pity.

Thanks for reading. :)

#5

I think the merging just puts them back into iCloud. If you want OF to see calendars on a Mac, then they must be local only, I think.

#6

Yeah, that seems to be the case. The benefit of syncing iCal with my iPhone Calendar trumps having cross-pollination between iCal and OF, so I’ll leave things on the cloud.

Cheers!