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hillarywb - Sep 22, 2005 - 11:45 pm
this is a just annoying thing, but I can't get my ical to start the day at an hour I choose. it displays the day starting at 1 am no matter what I put in the preferences. any ideas would be very appreciated. Hillary
ziess - Sep 23, 2005 - 12:36 am
Hi Hillary,
Macs store the preferences we set for our applications in files known, unsurprsingly, as preferences files. Sometimes, and for reasons that no one has ever been able to properly explain to me, these files go 'bad' or get corrupted in some way and need to be trashed. This normally solves all funny application problems that we might be having but unfortunately means that we have to reset our preferences when we restart the application.
Nine times out of ten this clears up small problems.
Run a search on your hard drive for com.apple.ical.plist. Once you've found this file, drag it to your desktop while holding down the 'option' key (the one between the apple key and the control key). This will make a copy of the preferences file on your desktop - you should always make a copy, never just move it as Mac OS X can link directly to files as well as to addresses of files.
Restart iCal and, fingers crossed, your problems should be fixed.
If this doesn't work then get back in touch and we'll try some other things.
Tommy -Thanks for choosing MacOSX.com: The Answer to Mac Support!
Macs store the preferences we set for our applications in files known, unsurprsingly, as preferences files. Sometimes, and for reasons that no one has ever been able to properly explain to me, these files go 'bad' or get corrupted in some way and need to be trashed. This normally solves all funny application problems that we might be having but unfortunately means that we have to reset our preferences when we restart the application.
Nine times out of ten this clears up small problems.
Run a search on your hard drive for com.apple.ical.plist. Once you've found this file, drag it to your desktop while holding down the 'option' key (the one between the apple key and the control key). This will make a copy of the preferences file on your desktop - you should always make a copy, never just move it as Mac OS X can link directly to files as well as to addresses of files.
Restart iCal and, fingers crossed, your problems should be fixed.
If this doesn't work then get back in touch and we'll try some other things.
Tommy -Thanks for choosing MacOSX.com: The Answer to Mac Support!
hillarywb - Sep 24, 2005 - 7:29 pm
Hi Tommy,
here is what I did: found plist and dragged it to desktop. restarted computer. went to ical, went to ical preferences changed day start from 7 to 6, still starts at 1 am. then I went to preferences again and changed start day from sunday to monday, and it changed immediately, so am i asking ical to do something it doesn't want to do. by the way I am running 10.4.2. thanks,
Hillary
here is what I did: found plist and dragged it to desktop. restarted computer. went to ical, went to ical preferences changed day start from 7 to 6, still starts at 1 am. then I went to preferences again and changed start day from sunday to monday, and it changed immediately, so am i asking ical to do something it doesn't want to do. by the way I am running 10.4.2. thanks,
Hillary
ziess - Sep 26, 2005 - 10:27 am
Hi Hillary,
Search for all instances of com.apple.iCal.plist on your machine and trash them. Empty the trash and try iCal again.
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Regards,
Tommy -Thanks for choosing MacOSX.com: The Answer to Mac Support!
Search for all instances of com.apple.iCal.plist on your machine and trash them. Empty the trash and try iCal again.
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Regards,
Tommy -Thanks for choosing MacOSX.com: The Answer to Mac Support!
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