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Title: iCal multiple-day problems
Post by: Thomas S. England on July 05, 2010, 05:14:46 PM

Seems as though just recently I've had a problem crop up in iCal. When making an all-day, multiple day event I am only given the option of the month to enter the dates, not days.

This is Version 3.0.8 (1287) of iCal, running under OS 10.5.8 on an iMac.

Here a screen capture of the problem:

Title: iCal multiple-day problems
Post by: Paddy on July 05, 2010, 11:06:18 PM

QUOTE(Thomas S. England @ Jul 5 2010, 06:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Weird. I just tried entering an all-day, multi-day event and had no issues. I'm using iCal 4.03 in 10.6.4 though, but it shouldn't be doing what you're seeing in 10.5.8 either.

Something is not right. Have you tried dumping iCal's .plist files, restarting, repairing permissions etc.? It is an Apple app, so repairing permissions might help - I'd start there.

Title: iCal multiple-day problems
Post by: krissel on July 06, 2010, 04:46:54 AM

If that doesn't help try clicking on repeat, select every day, then end on date and see if a full date shows up there.

Title: iCal multiple-day problems
Post by: Thomas S. England on July 06, 2010, 05:49:40 AM

Yes, I have dumped the preferences, and no, choosing "repeat" doesn't help. I get the same truncated date problem when I try that approach.

Perhaps I could re-install iCal. Isn't there a way to use Pacifist to extract just that application from somewhere?

Title: iCal multiple-day problems
Post by: Paddy on July 06, 2010, 07:02:56 AM

Tom, you might be able to dig iCal out of the combo updater, but it's probably easier to just reapply the combo updater for 10.5.8 entirely.

There are a couple of other things you could also try listed in this thread on the Apple forums (before they realized that the OP's problem wasn't actually a problem, but something that Apple had done).

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?m...2&#11604462

Title: iCal multiple-day problems
Post by: krissel on July 07, 2010, 04:42:17 AM

Out of curiosity, when you do other kinds of events do the normal date numbers show? If not perhaps try closing iCal and then play with your Date/Time prefs (change date, time zone, etc. and then back), log out/in and open iCal to see if anything changed. You might want to backup your iCal stuff first.

Probably reinstalling will solve the problem but I like to try alternate solutions for fun...