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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

 
11:33 AM: wailing and gnashing of teeth [#] [0]

update the next: it's sometimes handy to have a backup that's a week old. it looks like one of the creative arts therapy entries corrupted the calendar file and -nothing- could be written to it afterwards (why didn't it just -say- so? it saved and published without errors!). so when i went back to the corrupted file and edited the offending entry out and added END:VCALENDAR, it was relatively fine. i was afraid it might be a size issue or a node issue, because the file is hefty, but i tested by adding several large entries and it continued to be fine. so i have some data to recreate, but it's ultimately, minus the loss of a day, not too bad. what did i -do- to offend the technology gods so?

update: whenever i try to replace my general.ics file with a backup copy, ical -overwrites- it! ical takes a 784k file and makes it an empty 4k! what do i do NOW? need! calendar!

arrrrggghhhh! ical has decided to eat my "general" calendar! i'm grateful for the weekly backups (thanks to mph & rsync), but i'll lose a week of data (and given this week, that's sort of a big deal). but what i want to know is why. first sven noticed that new items weren't being published to the puddingbowl webcal, and i was irritated at that, but when i got to work and opened ical, i had no calendar at all! (the other three main calendars are all okay... for now...) so it's obviously a bigger issue, and the ~/Library/Logs show "iCalErrorDump-url-[timestamp]" files since feb. 27. grrrr! what's happening? google doesn't even have one match for "iCalErrorDump."

fun console messages while tinkering:
2005-03-01 12:06:24.388 iCal[543] Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
2005-03-01 12:06:24.531 iCal[543] Cal not a CALCalendar (null)
2005-03-01 12:06:24.548 iCal[543] convertFromICalURL got unparsable data on /Users/gretchin/Library/Calendars/general.ics, retrying
2005-03-01 12:06:37.956 iCal[543] Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
2005-03-01 12:06:37.967 iCal[543] Cal not a CALCalendar (null)
2005-03-01 12:06:37.993 iCal[543] convertFromICalURL got unparsable data on /Users/gretchin/Library/Calendars/general.ics - dumping to ~/Library/Logs/iCalErrorDump-url-030105T120624
2005-03-01 12:06:41.262 iCal[543] CALRFCFileRepository got nil calendar after storage. Resetting:CALRFCFileRepository 4e69e0 (0 entities) file://localhost/Users/gretchin/Library/Calendars/general.ics

why do computers hate me?

in better news, maggie was very impressed with my casual analysis of angel learning as a webct replacement.