<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 6 Sep, 2007, at 8:25, Jan Melichar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">Yes the problem starts when iCal is launched and starts to synchronize.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>iCal has a Help menu item that might give you some subjects to look for as answers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would still advise trying to disable the automatic synchronization function (your latest message did not clearly indicate that you had tried that yet) and seeing if the problem still existed at iCal startup.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have seen many other programs that started running at the time the computer was turned on and caused terrible delays in reaching a "ready to run" state. Every time this "startup function" was disabled, the computer ran without repeating the spinning disk delay. The most predominant programs of this sort were anti-virus, synchronization, back-up, and email fetchers with multiple subscriptions.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That is why I suggested disabling the automatic synchronization function as a test. If the problem disappears when the automatic function is shut off, then the problem is probably being caused by one or more of the separate computers that the synchronization is being attempted with. From that point, I would remove the separate computers from the synchronization list one at a time and try to synchronize to the remaining computers as a test. That would pinpoint the computer responsible for the delay, if any is responsible at all.</DIV></BODY></HTML>