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I have a simple event in iCal with one attendee. I sent an invitation to the attendee via iCal and they accepted the invitation.

When I double click on the event or do Get Info, it shows the attendee with a green check mark next to their name (I assume this indicates the acceptance of the invitation). However, the event in iCal shows an icon of a person with a question mark next to their name. Why? Do I need to do something further to complete the event?

I am running Lion and have iCal 5.0, but the most recent information about symbols on Apple's site that I could find is for iCal 3.0. According to that information, the question mark indicates a tentative acceptance. This makes no sense considering the single attendee accepted the event (not tentatively).

I have the setting to Automatically retrieve CalDAV invitations from Mail turned on.

I tried obvious things like closing and re-opening iCal.

Here's a screenshot of the event:

Event

And a screenshot of the same event expanded:

Event expanded

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Are the people on the same network as you are (e.g. the same exchange server)? I only ask because in outlook, people outside of my exchange server always show tentative. – Raystafarian Mar 26 at 11:11
@Raystafarian Yep, same Exchange server (and same LAN). – Nate Pinchot Mar 26 at 16:27
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The question mark means that the person you invited has not responded to the inivitation yet. After confirmation by this person, the question mark will change in the green check mark.

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Maybe I was not as clear as I could have been, but I noted the person already accepted the invitation and it is still showing a question mark. – Nate Pinchot Mar 26 at 16:26
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