Can't delete iCal Preferences
I have the strangest thing happening. I'm trying to delete all of iCal preferences for iCal. Which I thought I did however when I relaunch iCal all the information returns. Am I missing something?
1. Closed iCal
2. Deleted:
~/Library/Application\ Support/iCal/
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iCal/
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
3. Open iCal
Any help would be appreciated.
Just 'cos you're not using it doesn't mean that it isn't there.
Did you try my suggestion?
Sync services maintains data on several applications in folders in ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata. You can see which by opening the clientname.txt file in the various folders. There is also information stored in ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/data.syncdb. Deleting this file, the folder for iCal in clientdata, the calendar files in ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources and the several iCal plist files in ~/Library/Preferences should get rid of all calendar information.
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