No day entry possible in New Event dialog under from: to:

Whenever there is an opportunity to enter a from-to date in a New Event dialog box in ical I only can enter the month and the year but there is no field for the day... Can not find any solution. Somebody recommended my short day settings in the set-up but everything there is alright... Any help would be greatly appreciated.Tanks a lot

For the second time this month my iCal calendar and iPod calendar went blank. I don't know which went blank first. It seems that I only notice after a synch through iTunes.
Last time I deleted the Calendar file in applications and then went back a couple of days or weeks in Time Machine.
But the kicker is that when the restored calendars synchronize with Outlook, I wind up with multiple entries for the same event.
This is not a way to convince corporate IS departments to go with Macs.

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iCal 5.0.2 (1571) Is there any way to change this? I can't do it in preferences.
This is a real pain. To make an event for a specific time I have to double click again, uncheck "All Day" and then put in the time for the start of the event. Even then, if I put in the start time, the end time remains at 6:30 PM, so I have to change that too.
If I really do want an All Day event, why does it sometimes default to Busy, rather than always to Free?
The old iCal was far superior in this regard; double click once on a day and the add an event dialogue box appears, defaulting to a time close to when you were making the event, and, if my memory serves correct observing the preference I set with respect to default length of the event.
I'm aware that Command N gets me a new Quick Event, its a bit better in that if the event i enter opens the big "add an event dialogue box", it has defaulted to an hour long event. But, if I click on a day, and then hit Command N, the new event is put in Today, and not the day I had selected. It also defaults to All Day, unless I put in a time for the event in the Quick Event box. Why would I do that when I know I want to enter info into a number of fields, and doing so is easiest from the big dialogue box. If i don't enter a time in Quick Event, or enter a day, I still have to double click the event that was created by Quick Event to open the big dialogue box, and start fresh entering everything. So, I find Quick Event's implimentation cumbersome, overall ending up with more keystrokes and clicks to enter the details I normally enter, than the old iCal.
So, if someone knows how to change the double click behaviour back to the old way, or how to get Quick Event to open the dialogue box on the day i have already selected, any help will be appreciated.
Also, is there some way to get this feedback to Apple? Support SiteMap doesn't show a link for feedback.
Thanks
Ian

I have sort of the exact same problem. Extremely far away from user friendly
I have an second issue as well: When I hook off all-day it comes up with an 8 hour event!
And then if I put in a late start hour it pushes end time to next day due to the 8 hour event suggestion.
All in all this gives a lot of changes just to enter an event.
Command N
I learnt from your input to use this fuction. At least that comes up with a one hour event as default.

Stop "add new events" dialog?

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iCal I have on my desktop
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Creating new event in iCal from BBEdit data window. Calendar number fails.

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set theCals to {}
set iCalendars to {}
set theDate to current date
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab
set the_Date to text item 1 of the_line
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--if alarmTime is not 0 then
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save
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to old_delims
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You have a couple of issues here.
First, the line:
set theCalendarNumber to (first calendar whose title is theChoice)
However, theChoice is defined at:
set theChoice to (choose from list iCalendars with prompt "Choose the Calendar to use" OK button name "Choose" without multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed)
Since you're allowing multiple selections, theChoice will be a list.
You can't get 'first calendar whose title is' a list. You will need to either permit single selections only, or extract the calendar name from the selected items (maybe iterating through them if you want to add the event to multiple calendars).
Once you address that, the line:
set theEvent to make new event at end of events of theCalendarNumber...
also won't work because theCalendarNumber will be the name of a calendar, so this command tries to set the event to the end of events of a string. Instead you need to ask for the named calendar, like:
set theEvent to make new event at end of events of calendar theCalendarNumber
Then you should be set.

New Events are appearing from Flickr Albums

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I have exactly the same problem
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On first installation I have optioned for deleting conflict fonts.
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Can't create new events or todos

I am a frequent iCal / Mac user and have been using my Mac for the last year with no problem.
Yesterday, I was no longer able to create new events or todos, in any calendar. When I click new event or new todo, there is no response (no window pops up, just ignores). When I drag an area in a day to create a new event, it shows the dragged time, then doesn't create the todo
If I create an event or todo on my iPhone, it stays on my iPhone, but does not show up when syncing.
Note all old events are still present. I can move an existing event to the future, so this shows edits are still possible.
Can this be a recent bug from an pushed updated? Has anyone else seen this?
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I am having the same trouble and just realized it yesterday. Can you provide the detailed steps you followed that I could try?
I sync my calendar to MobileMe and my phone and those are both fine - and I've added new things to them since iCal stopped working apparently (guessing it was about a week ago based on things missing from iCal). I'm confused by your comment about backing up iCal - won't that simply end up restoring the same inaccurate data? Or maybe in my case it doesn't matter because the next time I sync it will update with the data I have on my phone and MobileMe (so maybe a dumb question). I already use Time Capsule so I'm guessing I can just use my most recent Time Capsule/iCal file backup to do my restore?
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In month view when I double click on a day to create a new event the timings default to 2300 until 0000. I can't find any way to change these timings - can anyone help?

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If I doubleclick to create an event in month view, depending on the current time of day, iCal will automatically create a time within the current 12-hour time period. If I then try to change the time with that annoying bubble (what ever happened to the beautiful sidebar), it will only allow changes within that current period. I.e. an event created at 10:00 can not be changed to 14:00. Entering "14" would result in the time being set to "04" in the morning. If I wait until after noon, then the times can be changed for the time period from noon to midnight only. This is really annoying. As a workaround, I can open the created event in day view and drag the event to the desired time. But this is not what I expect from Apple as useability.
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My SW2 updated last night and now I have a Icon on my watch for 'New Events' how can I get rid of this? I have my icons sorted by Favorites but no mater how many time I use m other apps the new events wont move from the first screen and I dont want to see this!!!!
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To get "New events" to move to another screen when sorted by favorites you need to open 6 other apps more times then you have opened "New events". If it doesn't move, first try restarting the watch and if that doesn't help, try to reset it from Setting -> reset SmartWatch.
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Why is ical automatically setting new events as "all day" events in Lion

After upgrading to Lion, everytime I add a new event in the Month panel it automatically selects the "all day" checkbox. It didn't used to do this and it's kind of annoying....anybody else?

Gustlock,
Default event creation in Month view results in an all day event.
Lion iCal Help (Add events to a calendar) says: "Add a new event in Month view by double-clicking within the day you want the event to appear. Enter a name and time duration for the event in the event’s title field, and then press Return."
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Lion iCal data detectors are supposed to make entry easier??

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I just did a fresh installation of Leopard Server & updated to 10.5.6 .
Group wiki, blog and calendar are displaying as expected. I noticed that whenever I created a new event, the event date will be saved a day behind the selected date in the Event dialog window. For example, if I want to create an event on 3rd Jan 2009, I would have to set it on 4th Jan 2009.
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Ways around it :
1. Create an event with a duration (at least 5 min). You can have it begin at 12:00am if you want to.
2. Create an all day event which MUST begin on or after 08:00am . Anything before this will be marked in the previous day box (even though the date and time values are as the way you have entered). I tried creating an all day event beginning from 07:55am and it was marked in the calendar a day behind. So 08:00am is the magic number.
Question : Is 08:00am regarded as a new day in iCal server ?

In contacts there is the possibility to add a new event, as the birthdays, but they do not appear in iCal. Is there any way to make that possible? It is normal to have a person with his birthday, anniversary and others key dates you want to link to him.

In contacts there is the possibility to add a new event, as the birthdays, but they do not appear in iCal. Is there any way to make that possible? It is normal to have a person with his birthday, anniversary and others key dates you want to link to such person, but the only one shows up is the birthday. How to be able to show all those dates linked to people in the agenda in the iCal?
Thanks

Hi,
I sugggest you try my application, Dates to iCal. It is shareware with a 2 week trial period.
Dates to iCal 2 is a replacement for Apple's birthday calendar for iCal. It has a range of features to allow the user to choose what, and what not, to sync to iCal from Address Book.
As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book, Dates to iCal 2 can sync anniversary and custom dates. It can set up to five alarms for each date in iCal and can also set different alarms for birthdays and anniversaries. It allows the option of only syncing from one Address Book group. This application also allows for the titles of the events sent to iCal to be modified to the user's preference.
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How do I create a new event entry for a specific calendar?

In my iMac Calendar app, I have created a few calendars for different functions. But every time I try to create a new event entry for a specific calendar, the app seems to prefer a different calendar instead by default. I cannot enter events in other calendars. Is there a way to do this? In previous versions, I would highlight the particular calendar I wanted to work with and the entry would go into that calendar. Thanks!

You don't. Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.
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