Mac Forum / General / General / November 2009

I'm using a G4 iMac and 10.4.11.  My father uses an Intel iMac which was
running 10.4.11.  I have my own account on his Mac which I access via
VNC daily while he simultaneously uses his Mac in his account.

I use iCal every day for both personal and business issues.  It contains
over 25,000 calendar items in my personal and business calendars.  This
causes iCal to run very slowly.  I transferred the iCal folder (Zipped)
from ~\Library\Application Support to the same location in my account on
the Intel iMac.  I launched iCal and it was a speed demon with those
25,000 items.  It didn't even blink at them.  I used iCal on his Mac via
VNC for one week.  At the end of every day, I would copy the Zipped iCal
folder from my account on his Intel Mac to my G4 iMac.  Then I would
launch iCal on my G4 Mac and verify that all of my daily activity was
present.  It always was there.

Three days ago, I installed Snow Leopard on my father's Intel iMac.  I
love it.  Can't wait to buy a new Mac some day.  I continued to copy the
Zipped iCal folder from his Mac to mine everyday.  Yesterday, I launched
iCal on my G4 iMac again to verify that all of my daily activity from
the day was appearing in iCal on my Mac.  It didn't appear there.  Only
the previous data was there.  I repeated my copy procedure and it still
didn't work.  I exported my data from the Intel iMac iCal and then
attempted to import it into the G4 iMac iCal.  It would not accept the
import.

I am confused why the iCal data from the Intel iMac is not appearing on
my G4 iMac iCal.  I am using the same unchanged procedures to copy the
data from his Mac to my Mac.  I am fairly certain that I performed this
procedure after I installed SL on his machine, and that I did verify
that the correct data appeared in my iCal.

I hope that all of my iCal data are not permanently stuck on my father's
computer.

Any ideas or suggestion?

Thank you.