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How to Enable iCal's Debug Menu and Show More Than 7 Days in Week View

Posted February 25, 2012 at 11:41pm by iClarified · 17968 views
These are instructions on how to enable iCal's debug menu to show more than seven days in week view and open multiple calendar windows at once.

Step One
Launch Terminal from your Applications:Utilities folder.


Step Two
Input the following command: defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1


Step Three
Launch iCal or restart it if its already open.


Step Four
Notice there is a new debug menu with numerous options.


Step Five
One useful option can be found under Top Sekret which lets you change the Days In Week View to 14, 21, or 28.




Another useful option is the ability to open multiple iCal Calendar windows with Command+L.

Step Six
To disable the debug menu just open Terminal again and input defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 0