I just recently started experiencing this. When i click on the iCal app icon on my dock it initially lifts up and sits back down. When i click it again it bounces 8-15 times and sits back down on the dock. The app won't open and i dont know why it is doing that. I cant delete the app and reinstall it since Mac OS X Lion won't let me. Any help would be appreciated since i use iCal a lot to keep track of appointments and meetings
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iCal not opening
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Are you able to open iCal in another user account on the same computer? If so, reinstalling will do you no good. The issue at that point would lie with either the iCal cache files/plists or the contents of ~/Library/Calendars and the fix would be to pull the iCal support files and restart the Mac. If iCal does not launch in another account, you can try installing the latest combo update for Lion or reinstalling Lion from the recovery partition.
In Finder, click the Go menu then Go To Folder, type in ~/Library/Caches, drag the com.apple.iCal folder to the Trash or to Desktop, it doesn't matter as long as its not the the starting location. Using the Go To Folder command again, go to ~/Library/Preferences and pull all the files beginning with com.apple.iCal. Then log out of your account and back in (or restart the computer) and try reopening iCal.
Only do this IF you can open iCal in another user account, otherwise this is just wasted effort.
Only do this IF you can open iCal in another user account, otherwise this is just wasted effort.
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