Ben Collier

Q: Calendar no longer showing month name

This is a new one, just booted up my laptop this morning and the menu bar was showing M10 5 Wed, which is also how it looks in Calendar. All the other months are the same (M01, M02 etc.).

 

Tried resetting PRAM, but can't see any Calendar prefs that I'd need to trash as the only one is the agent for synching.

 

Anyway to get my laptop to remember that it's October again? Not sure if it's connected but it also completely forgot that I have my trackpad set to tap-to-click and three fingers to drag, and that I have DND set in Notifications.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 17" Early 2011, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD

Posted on Oct 5, 2016 1:30 AM

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  • by jeremy_v,

    jeremy_v jeremy_v Oct 5, 2016 5:46 PM in response to Ben Collier
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    Oct 5, 2016 5:46 PM in response to Ben Collier
    Hi Ben Collier, 

    It looks like you are having some issues with your Mac showing the numeric numbers for the months, instead of the names of the months themselves. You are also having some issues with the trackpad preferences and Do Not Disturb for notifications. I can see how you'd want to get this all resolved. Let's see what we can do. 

    First, I'd like to have you set the trackpad preferences and Do Not Disturb notifications the way you want them and then boot the Mac into safe mode. 

    OS X El Capitan: Notifications preferences

    OS X El Capitan: Start up in safe mode

    Once you are in safe mode, please test out to see if the names of the months have returned and that the trackpad is still functioning as expected. If the names of the months did come back, please restart the Mac and open the Calendar app and check there to make sure the issue is resolved. If the issues didn't get resolved in safe mode, please create a test user and check. This'll help us to determine if the issues are system wide or user specific. 

    How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac

    Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a great night! 
  • by Ben Collier,

    Ben Collier Ben Collier Oct 6, 2016 3:59 PM in response to jeremy_v
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    Oct 6, 2016 3:59 PM in response to jeremy_v

    Hi Jeremy,

     

    Thanks for your detailed reply, I managed to manually get the trackpad working again and the date returned as normal in the test account (not in Safe Mode).

     

    As it's user specific, what's the next step?

     

    Many thanks!

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 6, 2016 7:50 PM in response to Ben Collier
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    Oct 6, 2016 7:50 PM in response to Ben Collier

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  • by Ben Collier,

    Ben Collier Ben Collier Oct 7, 2016 1:01 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Oct 7, 2016 1:01 AM in response to Eric Root

    EtreCheck results below:


    EtreCheck version: 3.0.6 (315)

    Report generated 2016-10-07 08:59:00

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    Runtime 1:58

    Performance: Excellent

     

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    Problem: Other problem

    Description:

    Month names have vanished

     

    Hardware Information:

        MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)

        [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

        MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,3

        1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core

        16 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

            BANK 0/DIMM0

                8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

            BANK 1/DIMM0

                8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

        Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

        Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

        Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 458

     

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            Color LCD 1920 x 1200

        AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB

     

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        OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1004) - Time since boot: about 9 hours

     

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        MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8   ()

     

    USB Information:

        Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

        Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

            Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

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        Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

     

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    Gatekeeper:

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        [loaded]    157 Apple tasks

        [running]    74 Apple tasks

     

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        [loaded]    159 Apple tasks

        [running]    88 Apple tasks

     

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        [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-05-09) [Support]

        [loaded]    com.apple.aelwriter.plist (2011-03-13)

        [loaded]    com.malwarebytes.MBAMHelperTool.plist (2016-01-18) [Support]

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        [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (2015-11-05) [Support]

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