The Day My iCal Died

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
After installing the update to OS X 10.2.3, iCal stopped working. I click on it, it bounces twice and stops.



I've tried uninstalling iSync and reinstalling iCal, but without luck.



Any suggestions?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    clear your cache.



    go to ~/Library/Caches/ and delete everything in the folder. no harm will be done.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    Thank you, Defiant, for the suggestion.



    It did not work. Any other ideas?
  • Reply 3 of 8
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    did you restart after you deleted it ?



    yep, I have more suggestions.



    [quote] The first generic solution to proplems is attempting to repair the disk and its permissions. To do this, you need to boot up from the Mac OS X Install CD (the first one). On the main installer screen, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. Select the name of your hard drive, click the First Aid tab, and click Repair Drive. When that is finished, click Repair Disk Permissions. You can then exit the installer and reboot back into your normal system.

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    thanks brad. (brad's the one who wrote that text which is quoted)



    [ 12-29-2002: Message edited by: Defiant ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 8
    Brad:



    Thanks for the suggestion on Disk Permissions.



    Unfortunately, it did not work, either. iCal does not open. I don't get my old calendar or a new blank one.



    Any other thoughts?
  • Reply 5 of 8
    It's a font problem.



    You're missing a font. Have you got Helvetica Neue? iCal needs it and it won't launch without it.



    It could be another font, but this is the font I lost after getting rid of my early-adopters 'Is OSX safe?' partition and copying my old preferences and libraries back anew. I had to go to the Knowledge Base to find this out. Is it possible you've reinstalled incomplete back-ups?



    Or something?



    [ 12-29-2002: Message edited by: Hassan i Sabbah ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 8
    [quote]Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah:

    <strong>It's a font problem.



    You're missing a font. Have you got Helvetica Neue? iCal needs it and it won't launch without it.



    It could be another font, but this is the font I lost after getting rid of my early-adopters 'Is OSX safe?' partition and copying my old preferences and libraries back anew. I had to go to the Knowledge Base to find this out. Is it possible you've reinstalled incomplete back-ups?



    Or something?



    [ 12-29-2002: Message edited by: Hassan i Sabbah ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Finally - I got it. I thought I had the Helvetica Nueve font, but apparently I did not. Also, I reinstalled iCal and it works, now.



    Thanks for your help.
  • Reply 7 of 8
    Yippee!
  • Reply 8 of 8
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    ratatat !!!
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