Alert- open file in Calendar (Mavericks)

So, I never had a problem with this before Mavericks, but now when I use a custom alert in calendar, (opening a file, an mp3), it never works anymore. Anyone one else have this problem or know a workaround?

To open your domain file in Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks or Yosemite or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script"/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"
delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. The script modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files if desired.
NOTE: once the domain file has been opened the first time you won't need the iWeb Switch Domain app again until you decide to switch domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
NOTE: for Mavericks, 10.9 , go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

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Open file with Calendar

Hello,
Configuration: Mac Mini - Mavericks - running a FileMaker server 13 on a local network.
Purpose: Automated archive a single file (.zip).
For this I create an App with Automator (archive a file and copy it in a folder).
This app is stand alone. When I clic 2 times on it it works well.
I try to run this App automatically everyday with Calendar.
For this I use (in the Alert dialog) open file and I select my Automator app.
On the server, when I close Calendar, and reopen it, my configuration alert (Open file) disappeared.
I try under Yosemite and it works fine.
I can update this server to Yosemite because there are still some incompatibilities with FMS.
Any idea to run automatically my automator app?
Regards
Ben

zebradan,
Export and send them as a vCard.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

Can't change default app to open file type in Mavericks

I'm having a problem changing the default application to open .PSD files.
I've tried using Get Info, Open With and click on an app and Change All button, but when I confirm I notice that it has been changed to the old app.
For example, I tried to change .psd files to Photoshop CC, instead of Photoshop CS6. I click on Open With and changed it to Photoshop CC and click Change All. When I click confirm, and move the pointer away, it changes back to CS6.
What gives?
Thank you.
Roxy

After you change the application used to open the file, there should be a "Change All" button that will set the default for all files of that type.
In addition, I use the Perian plugin so that almost all types of video files will open in Quicktime. http://perian.org/
Free and works very well.

How to see filename for Mavericks Calendar Open File alert?

How can you see the name / path of the file to be opened for a Mavericks Calendar Open File alert from the Calendar UI?
Before Mavericks, the file's name would be displayed in the item itself like this:
Now all I see is something more like this:
So I can longer see or verify exactly which file (if any) will be opened.

The external image URL in my previous post isn't displaying, so here's a copy of the old iCal Open File image:

Calendar Open File Alert also showing a Notification on screen

When Calendar used to open and run Automator scripts, it happened silently in the background. Now Mavericks insists on opening an on-screen Notification, even though I have no other Alert associated with the Calendar event besides Open File. Is there any way to turn off Notification of Automator scripts from Calendar events without turning them all off?

Same problem here. Trying to set Open File alarms is incredibly buggy, and even if you do successfully set one, and even if it does happen to work once or twice on a repeating event, don't trust it, because the joy won't continue. I used to run my life by iCal, but since upgrading to Mavericks, it's been nothing but grief and aggravation. I'd like to migrate to Google, but, hello? Privacy issues.
If I'd known that a free "upgrade" was going to break something so fundamental as a formerly useful calendar, I'd have give that particular freebie a pass.
And while we're on the topic of inadvertantly having downgraded our applications, Apple, take note: you should not helpfully make our alert notifications disappear after a nanosecond. Additionally, you should hasten to allow US the ability to decide how long to snooze an event, or even reschedule an event from within the alert window. A generic and unmanageable "Snooze" for an alert is just annoying. (I missed the snoozed alert for "Plug Grandma's life support back in," while I was in the bathroom and you can imagine the consequences. Okay, not really, but just sayin' -- get your effing house in order and make sure you don't break important basic apps with upgrades. Oh, and also, please FIX THIS!)

Mavericks Calendar Open File Alarm Scripting Failure

Hi all,
I just recently upgraded to 10.9 from 10.8.5. Part of my daily routine is to download an excel file, gather information from that excel and, using applescript, add information from that document to an icloud calendar found in Apple Calendar, and create an alarm that opens an application after the specified event time.
The upgrade to Mavericks did two things, first it stripped away all of the "Open File Alarms" from existing events on the icloud calendar, and now when I attempt to create new events with the below applescript, I get an error "There was an error saving calendar data. Calendar encountered a critical error while saving to the database, and recent changes may be lost. More information may be available in the console." If I strip away the code for adding the open file alarm, the events add properly. If I manually add an open file alarm by clicking the event and selecting the necessary info, the calendar and event save fine. I've checked the applescript dictionary for Calendar in 10.9 and I don't see a difference in how Open File Alarms are handled. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Below is the snippet of code that grabs the data from excel and loads it into the event in Calendar.
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tell application "Microsoft Excel"
activate
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open file theDoc
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          set eventFirstName to the value of range "B2" & " " as string
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          end if
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          tell calendar theoutdatecal
                    set deactivate_date to make new event with properties {start date:targetDate, summary:eventname, allday event:true, status:confirmed}
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end tell
Thanks!

As a side note, I have also tried unlinking and relinking the icloud account (to clear the calendar data), and creating fresh calendars "On My Mac" to the same result.

I am trying to download a calendar into ical and keep getting this message-Some of the events in this calendar have alerts that open files or applications. What am I doing wrong???

I am trying to download a calendar into ical and keep getting this message-Some of the events in this calendar have alerts that open files or applications. Remove alerts or cancel
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I have this same problem in October of 2013. I am unable to import .ics files into Lion that I exported from my Snow Leopard MacBookPro without losing all of my future events (which all have alerts attached). All of the events from BEFORE today's date are successfully importing, presumably because they are no longer expected to trigger alerts via Apple Mail. After my first unsuccessful attempt, I learned that iCal was communicating with iCloud by default. I have since turned off iCloud, but I have not found a solution to the problem. Harvey

Open file alarms severely broken under Mavericks

Hi.
So when I updated my systems to Mavericks, all of the alarms/alerts that open file to run an automator or Applescript applet had to be reset.
Even resetting was tedious, as each of the applets first had to be run from the finder. Then reset to the event(s) in Calendar..... but onle 2 can be set, then quit Calendar, then go back into calendar and set the next two......
Until Mavericks, I have depended on Canlendar to run everything.Calendar, invoking applets is like the best thing since sliced bread for our uses! On some days I have > 20 event alerts set.
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Note to Apple: PLEASE FIX THE PROBLEM WITH CALENDAR AND AUTOMATOR / APPLESCRIPT applets!!!!
Note to anybody else who has been likewise devastatingly affected, IS THERE ANOTHER 3rd party app available that will do what we have been dependent on Calendar to do?
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edited to add system using is OS 10.9.1
Message was edited by: croixmom99

Wow, ahahah.
Found the bug source. A big OSX security flaw in my opinion. As the file was on the desktop, the path was Users/Me/Desktop/... However, I had a network connection to my pc, and the link was to my user account, Users/me/... So OSX was not trying to open its own /Users/ path but my PC folder... Somebody could fool the system, by creating a volume called /Users/... with some fake duplicate files, and someone could try to open something on his drive, but in fact it would load the evil Users volume.
I don't understand how this could be possible. I never understood how bad the OSX network volumes system was that bad, but never tought it would be so crappy.

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Adobe Indesign & Illustrator CS6 will not open files off server after Mac Maverick update.

I updated to Mac OS X Maverick and all the sudden my InDesign and Illustrator will not open files off of my works network. I read somewhere about installing the new Java update may help fix it, but I tried it and it did not. I have restarted my computer and reset the connection to the server multiple times, but it does nothing.
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http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

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My solution from another thread:-
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Alert- open file in Calendar (Mavericks)

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