Of all the things to restore when the server regained its data, my calendars have been the biggest nuisance which is a disappointment. Last year I made the jump to BusyCal because its look and feel had more in common with my old standby Aldus Adobe Now Defunct Cellphone Company PowerOn Up2Date. Now the software I praised has become a digital anti-christ. As soon as I reconnected the application to the server’s data, it immediately started erasing all the calendars I built. The individual .ics files (how appointments and to-dos are formatted) remained, BusyCal just refused to recognize them. This cascaded over to iCal.
Now I’m going back to iCal for re-importing the calendars/data. Then I’ll resort to BusyCal, should it hold, to handle to my daily operations. Yet I may change my strategies about which calendars reside on the server and those that will stay on my computer exclusively. I have data keeping track of my life starting around September 1994 (movies I saw, concerts, etc.), I would like to keep it for fear of Alzheimer’s. I won’t ask for assistance from the BusyCal people, they published a new 2.0 version for Mountain Lion only. I don’t want to upgrade my personal MacBook Pro until three key applications are brought into line.
Does this mine I don’t recommend BusyCal anymore? I continue to endorse it for a personal calendar datebook. I now throw in caveats when it interacts with a CalDAV server, especially if it has been restored from a backup.