Open Radar

 
13-Dec-2012 03:35 PM Phillip Jordan:
Summary:
In an iPhoto "Big Date" Calendar Project, if you edit the text for a specific day, delete that text, and import a calendar in which that day is a significant day (holiday), the day in the iPhoto Calendar stays permanently blank and unhighlighted.

Steps to Reproduce:
- Create a "Big Date" calendar project in iPhoto.
- Edit the label for e.g. a known holiday such as 25th Dec.
- Change your mind and delete the label.
- Import a calendar which is known to contain the day in question as a holiday, e.g. UK national holidays

Expected Results:
- The day should be displayed as a holiday as per the imported calendar
- The font colour should change to the highlight (holiday) colour

Actual Results:
- Notice the day is still displayed empty
- The default colour is used (not highlighted)

Regression:
This bug has been around for a few years now.

Notes:
Deleting the label from a day should reset it back to defaults. Instead, the KHProjectJournalEntry table in the iPhoto Library's Projects.db contains multiple records for that day, including a blank one, and it appears only one of them is actually used.

As a work-around, manually locating and deleting the blank KHProjectJournalEntry record using the sqlite3 command line interface gives the calendar-imported entry priority, and the day is displayed correctly.

Another work-around is to delete the whole calendar and start from scratch, avoiding manual editing of day labels.

The behaviour is extremely confusing and work-around 1 is beyond the capabilities of most users, and work-around 2 is extremely time-consuming.