Strange? it works for me. I dunno why it would only export what you have 
selected.

Take care.
On Jan 19, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:

> Hi Sarah, 
> That is what I did but the resultant calendar backup file is only 203 bytes 
> which is not big enough to include all my calendar entries. I thus wonder if 
> is just the calendar day I am looking at. That is why I did a select all 
> before the calendar export but that made no difference. Am I missing some 
> preference option or the like? 
> 
> Are you using icloud to sync your iCal with some other device? Exporting of a 
> calendar may work differently if icloud is involved. The other possibility is 
> that as an Apple developer I am running a prerelease level of Mac OS which 
> might have iCal problems. 
> 
> Re your other Email about imap. I have discovered that gmail offers a 
> facility to forward mail it receives on an account to some other Email 
> address while leaving the original Email unchanged on the gmail account. That 
> means I can forward all my wife's Email to my Email address and move or 
> delete it freely with no effect at all on what my wife does with it (and vice 
> versa). 
> 
> All the best....
> 
> Paul Hopewell 
> On 19 Jan 2012, at 17:03, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
>> go to file, export and export the file as a ICal bacvk up. I do this every 
>> week or so as I'm having issues wiht my ical and creating events.
>> 
>> Take care all.
>> On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello, 
>>> I have recently lost my calendar and had to recreate it from scratch. that 
>>> was tedious and error prone! I thus now want to periodically backup my iCal 
>>> calendar (I only have one) so that I can restore it in case of disaster. So 
>>> I tried to export the calendar but the resultant file is suspiciously small 
>>> (203 bytes) and so cannot contain my entire calendar. I also tried select 
>>> all before exporting the calendar but that made no difference. 
>>> 
>>> I am sure I did this in the past and it all resulted in a largish file. 
>>> 
>>> Possibly relevant is that I am now using icloud to sync my iMac and iPhone 
>>> calendars. I did not do that in the past. 
>>> 
>>> So how can I backup my complete set of calendars so that I can restore them 
>>> in case of disaster? 
>>> 
>>> Many thanks. 
>>> 
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