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Missing calendars
Q When I replaced my old iMac, the shop transferred all my data to my new one. Several colour-coded calendars have disappeared in the process, and I can’t find them on the new Mac. I don’t use iCloud. Where have they gone?
AData for calendars is stored in ~/Library/Calendars, ~ meaning your account’s Home folder. When the shop migrated the contents of your old Mac to the new one, that data should have been copied across and appear in this folder.
If you have a recent Time Machine or other backup of your old Mac, you should be able to restore the calendars from it. Quit Calendar, If you back up using Time Machine, open that app,browsetoyourHomefolder,press ß+ç+. (full stop) to reveal hidden items, and open the Library folder that was just revealed. Select the folder named Calendars, which contains all your local calendars. Navigate back through time until the missing calendars’ files appear. Select them and click Restore. When you get back to the desktop, reopen the Calendar app.
If you don’t have a Time Machine backup of your old Mac, only a copy of what was on it when you upgraded, perform the same task manually by copying and pasting files from that into your account’s Calendars folder.
There are advantages to putting your Calendars in iCloud, most notable being easy access to them on all your devices. Although the local backups you make of your Mac will include your calendars, you should ensure that you keep offline backups of them; iCloud itself shouldn’t be treated as a backup as changes, including damage to files, will propagate across all devices you connect to it.