Skip to Content

iCal all-day events causing MobileMe calendars to hiccup?

by Josh Carr Sep 8th 2009 at 5:00PM

We received a tip from a frustrated reader this morning noting that when he published a calendar to MobileMe with iCal, it wasn't showing up if there were any all-day events in the calendar.

I sorted through a few different examples and was able to verify that any calendar with 'all-day' events just doesn't publish. Of course, you'll end up with a URL, but it will go to Apple's default 404 page for Mobile Me. A quick browse through the Apple support discussions will tell you that it's not an isolated incident... the thread can be found here.

We're being told that Apple is currently working on a fix for this problem, but we thought it would be a valuable heads-up for our readers. If you have to publish to MobileMe, we'd suggest removing 'all-day' events from your calendars (or changing them to fixed-duration events) until Apple fixes this issue.

Thanks, Bob!

View Tags

Related Stories

Categories

Bugs/Recalls MobileMe

We received a tip from a frustrated reader this morning noting that when he published a calendar to MobileMe with iCal, it wasn't showing...
 

Add a Comment

Sign in »
*0 / 3000 Character Maximum

16 Comments

Filter by:
Stuart

See also:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2134790&start=30&tstart=0

and:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10081011&#10081011

the 32-bit fix works fine on my MBP.

September 09 2009 at 5:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
1 reply to Stuart's comment
Eric Taylor

Interestingly, all I had to do is run iCal in 32 bit mode on one mac, publish it, and thereafter I could run iCal on all my macs in 64 bit mode and syncing was spot on.

I think it's the initial publishing after you've upgraded to Snow Leopard that is the problem.

And I do have many all day events that all publish.

September 09 2009 at 6:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

The 32-bit fix for all day events does not seem to work for all people (see http://bit.ly/H6wun).

September 09 2009 at 4:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wimbers

I have found mobileme and idisk pretty much useless. multiple synching errors. data that could not be merged, slowness. unavailability etc (i live in europe). i have cancelled my subscription and configured google on bothh my and my wife´s iphone.
all works seamless now.

apple would better put some effort in and make this thing a lot more accessible.

September 09 2009 at 4:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stefan (ZZESTO.COM)

@All - Maybe slightly OT, but isn't Calendar on the iPhone just not bringing what's needed. It is the underpowered little brother of iCal, which is already a bit low on UI and functionality. To name a few Calendar shortcomings:

- no bannerlike multiple day events visual representation
- no week view
- only 2 lines of detailed info available when in month view
- no todo
- no copy/paste/duplicate event options
- no decent sync (only with MobileMe)
- no gmail calendars

I personally really like BusyCal. Is there a iPhone version of BusyCal out there? I have Pocket Informant (PI) Light installed on my Iphone. But that might just seem a little bit TOO much functionality.

Thoughts, anyone?

September 09 2009 at 3:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Benjy

All Day Calendar events work fine for me between a new MacBook Pro and iPhone 3GS via .me account. Snow Leopard has been the best (though not perfect) and smoothest transition ever. When in doubt, just lay out.

September 08 2009 at 10:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
1 reply to Benjy's comment
bobinwisc

Benjy -

yep it worked fine on the Macbook, iMac, and my iPhone... and also on me.com

it was when i published it to make it a viewable webpage (http://ical.me.com/bobinwisc/River) where it wouldn't show up.

September 08 2009 at 10:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Me

How about iDisk... I've found it completely useless with 10.6. It's so slow via the Finder that I've given up. Irritating that DropBox works so quickly and seamlessly, for free, albeit only 2 gigabytes, yet iDisk ($149 for my family pack) is completely incapable of syncing 3.3 gigabytes of data in a 36 hour period... yes, I let it run all weekend attempting to get it to sync.

September 08 2009 at 7:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
3 replies to Me's comment
mfenster

I've had this problem (or some other problem causing my calendars not to publish) since week before last, and was told that it was a known issue and would be fixed last week.

September 08 2009 at 5:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

It's much worse for me - all day events are simply disappearing out of my iCal after I enter them. I am totally giving up on iCal.

September 08 2009 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick hecke

Well... I've been trying to get one of mine published for the last two days... It was driving me crazy...
Thanks for the heads up. Glad to know they are working to fix it.

September 08 2009 at 5:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Larry Hitz

I have worked with MobleMe tech last week and a current work-around is to make iCal boot in 32-bit mode.

Larry

September 08 2009 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
1 reply to Larry Hitz's comment
Larry Hitz

To do this you use inspector to get the info of iCal in your apps and you will see a checkbox to many iCal run 32-bit.

All day events and oublich will now work.

Larry

September 08 2009 at 5:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Buy an ad here

Hot Apps on TUAW

Tweets

© 2012 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved.