Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I have just upgraded to El Capitan on my iMac. I now find that on starting or restart, Calendar will not retain the window size that I had previously set. Perhaps I need to discard the old preferences setting and start afresh. Will that solve the problem, and if so, where is that preferences setting located?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
This will probably never be fixed in El Capitan.
However, instead of trying to remember to hide the sidebar before quitting Calendar a quick Option-Click of the green window button will get your big calendar back.
It has been indeed fixed for me on my MacBook but not on my iMac, even though they both run the same mac OS Sierra, latest version. The sidebar will disappear on my iMac after quitting the app. Any other fix?
Since upgrading to OS Sierra (now 10.12.2), I have no problems at all with Calendar window size on both my iMac and my MacBookPro.
I can leave my sidebar open or closed, resize my calendar to any size, and it comes back as I last left it every time.
I never had an issue with the sidebar disappearing. Never heard of that problem before.
Sidebar was mentioned as a culprit in the resizing issue in this thread. Anyhow, since my earlier post, I deleted the com.apple.iCal.plist preference file and after a couple of attempts with resizing and sidebar on/off, I am now able to keep the sidebar open, without resetting of size, after quitting and restarting. So mac OS Sierra did fix the issue, even if some errors may have carried over from older preferences that needed to be trashed.
Did you find a fix for this? It happens on one of my macs, but not the other. I've tried trashing the preferences but that didn't seem to work.
I have exactly the same thing. Idential Macbook Pros at home and work with identical OSX El Capitan versions and it only displays this bug on one of them. Weird! If it's useful, I created an Applescript to resize the window with one click for my ACD 24" at home (1920x1200 resolution) - save it as an Application and just launch it to resize the calendar window to your liking:
tell application "Calendar"
set the bounds of window 1 to {0, 21, 1770, 1150}
activate
end tell
you can change the last two numbers to whatever size you want: the 3rd number represents the width and the last number represents the height.
So not that you should have to do this, but I've discovered that if you click the Calendars button on the toolbar, which hides the sidebar, then calendar retains the window size you set before quitting and restarting the application.
I've never had to do this before, and only recently began experiencing the issue. I normally leave the sidebar exposed. But this is what worked for me.
Well, I'll be ******, it works. Strange bug! Hide the sidebar by clicking the "Calendar" button in the toolbar, close the application and it will reopen with the window size remembered. However, if one leaves the sidebar open and THEN closes the app it will NOT remember the window position between restarts. Mos def a bug!
Miklos' Applescript has the advantage that it can be set to work automatically. Dnapolitano4 has the advantage that it doesn't require wizardry at setting up an Applescript app. All of us would benefit if the Mac OS designers would simply fix the darned bug.
Thanks for the help of Miklos and Dnapolitano4
same issue here, anyone found a solution for this?
I had the identical problem in 1 of my 3 Macs after updating to Mac OS El Capitan. Having to resize the calendar window every time the application opens was annoying. Your simple workaround works great, until Apple fixes the bug or a new OS update is available. Thanks!
Genius!
Thank you for the workaround solutions, but as was said before, it is a bug that should be fixed and that highlights the recent lack of attention to details from Apple. I need to switch often between home and work calendars, so turning off the sidebar with calendar list is not a good option for me. I also mostly work from a month view. So every time I quit and reopen, I get frustrated. This is only made worse by the fact Calendar does not work well with Exchange (non-dismissible pop-ups that accumulate when checking details for invitation events). I don't know how these things go unfixed for so long when they are vital for people using macs at work.
Yup! Hiding the calendar list sidebar did the trick for me!
I find it incredible. First there is nothing to be found on the internet, just here, and only now do I learn that it is not me who is just to stupid to understand it! I was so frustrated about all the articles discribing how to use spilt screen etc I can not, for the life of me, imagine how this can be a bug that exists in version 3 (0,1,2)
Calendar will not hold window size on restart
