I have a Calendar "event" for March2, 2018 which reads "Holi". When expanded, it is shown to be an all-day "US Holiday" and there isn't any apparent way to delete it. I have no idea how it got there. It wasn't present in 2017 and doesn't show up in 2019. Is there a way to delete it?
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How can I delete a bogus Calendar "event"?
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The Calendars I have checked are: Home, Calendar, Birthdays, US Holidays. After the US Holidays (sidebar), there is a black triangle with an exclamation point in it: it says Calendar "couldn't be refreshed...there was an unexpected error". It seems i can get rid of "Holi" by unchecking US Holidays, but that gets rid of the whole year's worth.
It's part of the US Holidays calendar by default in Mac OS and iOS, you can't delete a event from this calendar but you can unsubscribe (Mac OS) or unselect it (iOS) and all US holidays will go including this one. It's all or nothing, I am afraid.
Sounds like some sort of minor corruption in your calendar files. The solution could be to nuke your user calendar files if all of your calendars are synced to iCloud or another service.
You could just uncheck "Show Holidays calendar" in Calendar>Preferences…>General and subscribe to a different holiday calendar...like Google's.
You could just uncheck "Show Holidays calendar" in Calendar>Preferences…>General and subscribe to a different holiday calendar...like Google's.
No corruption. As others have pointed out, it's coming from the holiday calendar. Holi is a Hindu holiday. It looks like Apple has added a number of non-Christian holidays (or has always been there: I don't subscribe to the holiday calendar) to the US holiday calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
Thanks, Brian...may try what you suggested. Hard to understand why Apple doesn't allow deletion of an individual holiday.
You are correct...and we have been educated. It's not on the default Google "Holidays in United States"...that's for sure.
NoBoMac...if Apple added this to a holiday list, it should be showing up in 2019 calendar, which it isn't.
The calendar is "read-only" as is Google's.
This is the subscription link to Google's "Holidays in United States" if anyone's interested:
https://calendar.google.com/calenda...@group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
I subscribe to the old webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics calendar which does not include Holi. I noticed that if I turn on Calendar>Preferences>General>Show Holidays calendar, I get Holi showing on a second "US Holidays" calendar.