ICal dock icon "stuck" on fixed date
Today is July 6, but the iCal dock icon on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard says 5. Yesterday, it said 1, but I rebooted last night. The icon changes to the correct number when I launch iCal, but as soon as I quit, it goes back to showing the day I last rebooted.
Any ideas? This one has me stumped. No problem with iCal running on my Mac Mini with Leopard. Adding new events doesn't change a thing.
I noticed this morning mine said Jul 7. When I clicked on it to open iCal, then closed iCal it said Jul 9. Annoying since I use that icon as a quick "date check" sometimes.
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ICal dock icon stuck on date!
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Here are two screenshots:Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Yes, I see on the iCal icon the 4 is shifted up into the red. It's odd. Try this...
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My iCal dock icon has a '1' in a red circle.
That means that you have an event invitation. Click on the envelope icon in the bottom left corner of the iCal window to display the invitation.
...can I instruction iCal that I don't want it to be showing the indicators on the Dock Icon?
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My iCal Dock Icon has a red circle with a "one" in it - similar to unread emails in Mail.
I'm sure this is an alert of some kind - but what? How do I locate it?ArchiTexan,
Welcome to the Forums! Now I'm using 10.5.6 so it might be a little different but for me I goto:
Show -> notifications from the menu bar along the top. That badge is for notifications and invitations. If you want to turn it off so they don't automatically add goto preferences and turn off Automatically add invitations from Mail.
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There must be a way to rotate the date a few degrees clockwise...anyone with some good knowledge?
Thanks guys!Like this? Looks funny, do you really want to do it?
This is a somewhat risky operation; you should only try it, if you understand the structure of an application package and know what you are doing, for you have to exchange a file in the Resources folder of the iCal application, and probably even then it is not really worth the risk
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Quit iCal. Make a backup copy of the iCal Application. Make sure this backup copy is working by launching it and quitting it again.
Select the iCal Application in the Finder. Ctrl-click it, and select "Show Package Contents". Open the Folder "Contents", then the folder "Resources".
Make a backup copy of the icon file "App-empty.icns" in the "Resources" folder; then replace the icon file "App-empty.icns" with the straightened icon file. You will have to authentificate as administrator to do that.
Close the package folder and relaunch iCal.
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Cheers
Léonie
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icon is the only one which jumps out of the line, this is driving me nuts
Don't you have Mail, GarageBAnd, iPhoto, dictionary, Textedit, AddressBook? My icons are all rotated .... -
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Dock icon shows yesterday's date when closed
Per the title, dock icon shows Dec 1 when iCal is closed. When I open it, it changes to today's date, but when I quit it reverts to 12/1.
Trashed preference file, no change.
Not the biggest deal--just takes me back to Tiger--however I do get concerned when something "new" starts happening for no apparent reason.dfreiwald,
Have you removed the icon from the Dock and replaced it with the iCal icon located in your Applications folder?
I would say this is more of a nuisance than something to worry about.
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ICal dock icon...
its the actual date when its not on.
is this with the update or just me?
(yes i know i posted this twice but i posted it in the wrong place the first time)The iCal icon in the Dock will be the actual date in Mac OS X 10.5 or when iCal is open in earlier Mac OS X versions. Otherwise, it's always July 17.
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Oh awesome, it worked thanks! I forgot about plists, silly me.
For reference, navigate to:
[yourusername]>Library>Preferences>iCalExternalSync.plist
Delete the plist file and logout/in- should do the trick. Thanks teorema67! -
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