iCal Consistently Quitting

[chriswheat]

I'm having a bizarre problem with iCal on one of my macs.

Using the latest version of iCal and 10.4.10, every time you open iCal it stays open for about 10-15 seconds, then the spinning beach ball of death appears and hangs for about 10 seconds before iCal quits automatically, bringing up the "application has quit unexpectedly" dialog.

I tried creating a new user account and opening iCal from that account and it works perfectly. So something in this user account is keeping iCal from operating. Where should I start?

 

[chriswheat]

A few more observations (if anyone can help):

Upon starting iCal, for the first 10 seconds you can see that there are many (50-75?) calendars in the sidebar that have no name, no details, etc. They're all colored differently. If you go to User Library:Application Data:iCal:Sources and delete all the calendar folders (50-75 of them) they just reappear the next time you open iCal. It seems like to enters an endless loop creating new calendars.

I've repaired permissions and reinstalled 10.4.10 from the combo update.

 

[gauchogolfer]

Try finding the .plist file associate with iCal and dragging it to your desktop, then restart iCal.

I'm at work on an XP machine, so I can't tell you exactly what it's called, but a Spotlight search ought to find it for you.

 

[skybolt]

I had a similar issue, and found it was a bad iDisk sync to .mac. The solution was to "reset all sync devices" (not at the mac right now, so can't be more specific). I could tell it to sync .mac to HD, or HD to .mac. Choose one or the other and let it do its thing. Worked perfectly.

Good luck!