Calendar will not hold window size on restart

I absolutely agree. Only because I sometime paly with a Windows machine do I know that Windows is still far worse, but otherwise I would have contemplated switching back, now that ALL my friends, family, co-workers have switched to the Mac,. Wouldn't that be something....

Other things that are mind boggling:

1. With FV enabled the backlit keyboard works AFTER you logged in!!!! How can I log in if I can not see the keys?

2. After a sleep my network settings (VPN) are GONE. I have to restart to see them again.

3. This calendar......man are you trying to kill me?

4. Mail. Best mail client, except for it majorly screws with formatting....

Apple may be doing a lot of things richt, but OSX (of late) is not one of them..

After much effort this finally worked for me:

Try turning off any Exchange calendar accounts. Once I did that, the window size sticks, even with the sidebar open. I don't know if the half-height bug will come back when turning the Exchange calendar back on, but I don't care to find out.

I also discovered the very weird phenomenon that when Google calendars are turned on, each one is listed under the 'Window' menu as if it is an open window. Choosing one opens just that calendar with the sidebar renamed to the calendar's name.

Thanks, but no......

Same here.. thanks for the tip on hiding calendars, it has drawbacks but at least the window keeps its sizes!

Removing the iCal preferences file as per " calendar only opens half height since El Capitan " worked for me. Has not been a problem since.

There seemed to be a lot of saved data in the prefs file - but my accounts came back straight away and everything else was just some minor tweaking.

Daniel.

OMG!!

Does anyone read the entire thread before commenting??

I'm out.

Why? Given that I tried 2 weeks ago and have tested since I was reporting that the method worked for me.

In addition, I can show and hide calendar lists, etc - so it isn't a temporary workaround awaiting me to post again here as you said in one of your earlier posts on the thread I did actually read.

It may be that this may not work for everyone, but that does not mean you immediately discount it as a potential solution.

So, byeeeee!

Sorry Daniel Figucio1.

I was not referring to your post, but to a few other ones before yours.

Please forgive me.

Ahh, I understand. Then I should be the one to apologize. Sorry!

Just hide Calendar list.

Hi Igiz,

The only problem here is that it requires you to remember to hide the list every time you want to close the app or restart your computer.

Its been 3 weeks now since I removed my iCal preferences. I have not had to do it again, and I don't need to remember to hide the list, nor do I appear to lose anything by removing the prefs file. My windows still work as expected.

I'm curious - has anyone else tried removing the preferences file? Did it work for them? I just want to make sure that I wasn't just lucky.

d.

Hi L1,

I know what you mean. I have tried everything and this is - as far as I figured out - the only way.

I do not need the calendars list, therefore it works fine for me and if I keep hiding the list, the window opens the same way, it was closed.

Unfortunately, I can not give an other advice and I hope that apple reacts on that issue, soon.

I suppose nobody is happy the way apple keeps its silence.

Have a great day

igiz

Are you referring to my post?

Closing the calendar list is not the only way. I recommend cleaning out the preferences file.

THe the problem is symptomatic of some preferences corruption, or change in the way the application stores the window positioning data. By cleaning out the preference file, you allow the application to rebuild that data from scratch. If the problem continues then there is a bug in the application or you may have a damaged disk drive.

if it is corruption in the preferences file, then your application may become unstable, resulting in real data loss.

Daniel.

Daniel Figucio1 wrote:

I'm curious - has anyone else tried removing the preferences file? Did it work for them? I just want to make sure that I wasn't just lucky.

I've removed the preferences file and it didn't work. You're lucky.

Since adding a calendar (Astronomical Events*), I haven't seen this resizing issue happen after a few weeks. But, I would be far from calling this a solution. With this latest 10.11 El Capitan version of Mac OS X, I have yet to see any Apple app that isn't messed up, often beyond recognition in attractive appearance, added/deleted basic functions, Steve Jobs' high quality or a usable/good GUI. I will have to try systematic testing when I have the time and inclination to fix (yet another) Apple OS X quality oversight or a work-around for a new lame idea.

*I wouldn't rely on this particular link as any cure — http://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/students.uu.nl_plp5j8bh2qsjfloqi6qifsis 28%40group.calendar.google.com/public/ba…

— but, nice to have.

Good luck to my fellow Mac users.

As with elections, my choice is no longer one of quality, just the least worst of the options placed in front of me.