On occasion my Calendar on Mavericks gets hosed when syncing with Google. If I look in the console, I see errors like the following mentioning “An error exists on principal”:
6/5/14 10:05:00.337 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists on principal: [iCloud]] 6/5/14 10:05:00.338 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists on principal: [Time Off]] 6/5/14 10:05:00.340 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists on principal: [Events]] 6/5/14 10:05:00.341 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists on principal: [Launch]] 6/5/14 10:05:00.341 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists on principal: [Conferences]] 6/5/14 10:05:00.342 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists on principal: [Some Team]]
Hitting Command-R in calendar results in it sitting on Updating for some time (minutes?) and then an exclamation point appearing next to the calendars in question. I finally found a solution to fix it until the next time it happens. I’m not sure what the actual cause is but this can get you back up & running.
- Close the Calendar app.
- Go into System Preferences.
- Click on Internet Accounts.
- Click on the Google account (if you have multiple you may have to do this for each).
- Uncheck “Calendars”.
- Click Show All or close preferences.
- Open Terminal.app (Applications > Utilities)
- type: killall -9 CalendarAgent
- type exit or close the window.
- Go back into System Preferences and turn Calendar back on for the Google Account(s).
- Start up Calendar and hit command-R – everything should refresh properly.
Let me know if you have questions!
pacoverde
Hmmm… Been looking for a solution to this problem and was hoping this was it. Unfortunately, after following the steps above on my 10.9.3 MacBook Pro I continue to receive sync failures with my Google Apps Calendar. For now I have just turned off syncing; hoping for a fix in a Mac Calendar update of 10.9.4?
pacoverde
Mac Calendar update of 10.9.4 ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h or 10.9.4 (!)
Jon Dagle (@jondagle)
Still helpful on 10.9.4. I’ll have to keep this in my reference for Yosemite! 😉
Joe K
OMG – thanks for the steps as it fixed my calendar problems. It was driving me crazy not having my calendar working properly. Virtual hug mann.