7-day advance alerts in Calendar

Is there any possible way of modifying the Calendar to allow for alerts 1 week before an event? At the moment the maximum alert time available is 2 days before, which is too late for sending birthday cards etc. This seems like such a simple modification -- surely there's a way it could be done! I live in an area with no mobile phone coverage and am sometimes away from email, so reminder apps like ReQall that rely on email or SMS alerts are no good to me -- I need something that will stand alone on the iPhone (rather like I had on my good old Nokia mobile!)

If you sync your iPhone calendar to one of the supported desktop calendars, you can set the alert in that app and it will carry over to the iPhone.

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Hello
Because the default sound "Basso" isn't the best alert sound for me I want to change the default sound of Calendar items in Mountain Lion.
I was able to do this in the past, with Lion, but unfortunately this isn't possible anymore I see...
Changing the com.apple.iCal.plist file doesn't help, since this plist file doesn't exist anymore.
And despite what I saw on several websites (see http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/80_os_x_mountain_lion_tips_and_tricks#slid e-3), I can't change this in Calendar neither (see image here below)
I checked the settings in notification centre, where I can choose to have sound alerts for calendar, or not, but cannot adapt the default sound.
Can you please help?

Hi,
here is a solution that is working for me in 10.9.5 (thanks to Wakko from http://iszene.com/thread-165772-post-1927711.html#pid1927711)
(Make TimeMachine backup)
Quit calendars
Go to ~/Library/Calendars. Here, for each calendar there is a folder with its UUID (i. e. 9C36543C-8BA1-4264-8E3F-C1BB9FB207BE.calendar). To find out what calendar it is referring to open info.plist within it. Chose the calendar's folder you want to change the alarm sound for. It should also be containging the folder /LocalDefaultAlarms with the two files EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm and EventTimedAlarms.icsalarm. If it does not open calendars and create a test event in that calendar. Go to 2.
Open EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm and EventTimedAlarms.icsalarm. Find the line ATTACH;VALUE=URI:basso and change basso to the sound you like. I had to place the sound file in /System/Library/Sounds.
(By the way: If you want to change the default hour for alerts for all day events, change TRIGGER:-PT15H accordingly. PT stands for pacific time, -PT15H means 9 AM (15 hours before beginning of the day).)
Reboot
EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm and EventTimedAlarms.icsalarm are re-created and reset to basso each time calendar prefs are saved. So, in order to prevent overwriting your manual settings accidentally, set them to read only.
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Receiving double alerts from Calendar ...

Hi,
I am experincing double email alerts from Calendar. Not all alerts are doubled though.
As an example, I asked Calendar to send me an email 7 days before my November 5th appointment. The appointment is sceduled from 4H00PM (16H00) to 5H00PM (17H00). I received 2 emails ... one at 5H00PM (17H00) and one at 5H21PM (17H21). See the picture below.
Why am I receiving 2 email alerts ? Could this be related to the Calendar app on my iPad or my iPhone ? But then I would receive 3 alerts ... !!!
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Robert Lespérance

Hi camilla262,
Thank you for your post and welcome to the forums!
Since syncing will transfer all calendar events as they are on Outlook (or Exchange server), it may not be possible to filter out this information on the phone.
What you can do though, is to disable the calendar notifications on your device.
To turn off all Calendar notifications (sound alerts):
Menu > Calendar > Options > Settings > Calendar alarm tone > None
Let us know if this helps,
Puigchild
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Have problem setting Email alerts for Calendar events. Warning message says I need to set up a card in Contacts with my email. I do but it doesn't recognize it. How do I indicate the email I want alerts sent to?

The system of setting up email alerts for Calendar events worked fine in Snow Leopard but since I upgraded to Mt. Lion Calendar won't let me set email alerts. When I try, I get an error message saying I need to set up a card in Contacts for my email. I have a card set up in Contacts for both of my email addresses but it doesn't recognize them. Perhaps the name I have on the card doesn't match a name that Calendar is looking for. Calendar doesn't seem to have a way in Preferences or elsewhere to indicate the email I want alerts sent to. Any ideas how I can get this system working again? Thanks for your help.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.
See if another contact is marked as this is my card.

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I'm having a huge problem with the days and dates being on the right side of the day in the week calendar. Can I change that to the left upper side?
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Does EAM Forecasting considers off days mentioned in Workday Calendar?

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Requirement: Let's suppose Maintenance Workbench is showing forecasted work orders on 25-March-2013. But if 25-March-2013 is the off day mentioned in the workday calendar or it is mentioned as off day in the exception list then what would be the behavior of maintenance workbench?
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I take it then you don't have a memory problem. Just to clarify, your events on the calendar are fine, it's just the display
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It's a problem they need to fix. Make a complaint at http://www.apple.com/feedback/

CalendarAgent downloads 25 MB day! Even if Calendar not open...

Hi - I spend part of my time at a remote site that accesses the internet via a shared satellite connection. It's lousy, but it's the only way to get internet access here. It has daily bandwidth caps (100 MB) which are regulary exceeded by the group of connected computers, even if very little email or web surfing occurs.
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Outlook not showing all-day events in shared calendars

One of my users cannot see all-day events on shared calendars if those events are marked as "free" (as in the person is not busy or out of the office.) We use these events for a time-off calendar, and being on our help desk she needs to know when
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I noticed that the issue only happens to specific user with specific computer. Please do the following checking to narrow down the issue:
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I have tried for 2 days to create a calendar in Numbers and it keeps crashing...not sure what to do next

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I've upgraded to an iPhone 4s but my birthdays appear one day out in the Calendar!

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