iCal default duration - Lion Upgrade
Hey all, so i updated to Lion last week and now when i go to enter an event into ical it sets the default duration at 8 hours. ***? How do i fix this back to 1 hour?
iCal-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Hey all, so i updated to Lion last week and now when i go to enter an event into ical it sets the default duration at 8 hours. ***? How do i fix this back to 1 hour?
iCal-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)
Tocanostra,
Try refreshing the iCal plist file. You will find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder. To get to the Library folder use Finder>Go>Depress the "Option" Key and select LIbrary. Quit iCal, drag the .plist file to your Desktop. Then log out/in or restart.
Just tried the plist thing, but it didn' work. After more research, it seems like this is what lion does. the only work around is to enter a time for your meeting in the subject; in which case ical will default the event at 1 hour.
ex: "Birthday party for Jen @ 9" it will show up in the cal from 9-10.
Tocanostra,
Your first post indicated a duration of 8 hours. The 8 hour duration was an indication of plist corruption. Since you followed the suggestion and refreshed the plist file, I surmise that it now reverts to the default behavior.
For others reading this thread, events entered in the Month view without any time references will be entered as all day events. Additional event entry tips:
I correctly refreshed my plist file and if I create a new event iCal defaults to an All-Day duration and if I uncheck All-Day, it defauts to an 8 hour duration. Really??? This can't be how it was designed to work! I hope there's a software update soon. Why isn't the duration a preference setting???
So is there no setting to have iCal default to 30 min. or 1 hour for a new event?
I'm having the same problem. Trashed plist, logged out, same issue, new events go to 8 hours (after all day is turned off). Must be a bug of some sort. Since I'm mostly interested in the start time, and work off the monthly view, this isn't a big deal for me but I trust it will get fixed since it certainly impacts daily or weekly views.
Please fix this or make it an option. Nowhere does it make sense to have an event default to being all day, when you are adding an event from the calendar mode. I schedule things out weeks at a time and have to check for a conflict, the best way to do this is to use the monthly calendar mode. Having to change to another mode, type more, or do anything other than just click and enter is obnoxious. Adding six more clicks to punish me for clicking on the day to add an event is even worse.
This is an option that needs to exist: "Default Event Duration in <Mode> Mode: [AllDay/1hr/30min/etc]" "Default Calendar in <Mode> Mode: [Work/Home/etc]"
Thank you for attending to this.
Hi, one more vote to fix this, it's really annoying when you type the initial time and it ends in next day. 😢
Yes, I agree. I can not believe that the programmers and designers have made such a huge mistake and not continue this possibility in preferences.. Shocking...
One more vote for a bug fix. Default to all day or 8 hours is nuts. Another thing. In either iPhone or iPad calendar one can select a one day prior alert. On the Mac, one does not have that selection. One has to chose 30 day and edit it. How many people need a 30 day notification for much of anything?
ical ***** now. I like being able to put my times in manually. I drink the apple koolaid and love a ton of stuff... I hate the ical mods. Double click on a day for a new event and it defaults to all day? Then you have to edit, remove all day and if you change time to PM, it rolls the activity into a two day event. ***?
there's a terminal command for changing the default event duration. it is:
defaults write com.apple.iCal 'Default duration in minutes for new event' 15
the above would change the default time to 15 minutes, but any value should work.
Great tips for data entry Ferd, works like a charm.
andy
iCal default duration - Lion Upgrade