Just a quick note on how upgrading to yesterday’s 10.5.3 release broke iCal, what didn’t fix it, and what did.
I upgraded yesterday, and everything seemed fine. It wasn’t until this morning that I tried to access my iCal, and I received an error dialog letting me know that iCal could not move the Calendar Cache due to a permissions problem.
I manually checked permissions on ~/Library/Calendars/Calendar\ Cache and the file was owned and writable by me, as well as the containing directory.
smeg:~ merlin$ cd ~/Library/Calendars
smeg:Calendars merlin$ ls -al Calendar\ Cache*
-rwxr–r–+ 1 merlin staff 532480 May 28 17:39 Calendar Cache
-rwxr–r–+ 1 merlin staff 311296 Feb 11 15:33 Calendar Cache~1
Running Permissions Repair inside of DIsk Utility did not help.
Moving the old Calendar Cache files out of the way did fix the problem, and the new iCal was able to upgrade and rebuld its databases:
smeg:~ merlin$ cd ~/Library/Calendars
smeg:Calendars merlin$ mv Calendar\ Cache Calendar\ Cache.bak
smeg:Calendars merlin$ mv Calendar\ Cache~1 Calendar\ Cache~1.bak
If you found this page because you have hit this problem, then I hope this helps.
-Chris
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