Birthday Calendar in iCal Alarm

Hi, I created a birthday calendar in iCal. Now I don't know how to get recognition of these data by a ringing tone.

The birthday calendar is read-only, so you cannot set alarms. If you want them, turn off the birthday calendar and use John Maisey's script Dates to iCal instead.
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Don't know what I'm doing wrong, but there's no option under General Preferences to add a birthday calendar to iCal.
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Greetings,
Just to cover all bases, you do have birthdays in Address book, right? (You are using Address Book for your contacts, right?)

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Hi,
If you first select the calendar on the left, so that its background is highlighted blue/grey, when you make a new events they should be added to that calendar.
Best wishes
John M

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Michael,
Why are you still using iCal 1.5.5? It may explain why you are having problems.
You also indicate that you are using 10.4.9, is there any reason that you have not updated to 10.4.11?
AFAIK iCal 2.0.x is the most current version for Tiger, and I do not know the ramifications of using 1.5.5. Matter of fact, Apple says: iCal 1.5.5 is not compatible with OS X 10.4 or later
If indeed you have 2.0.x try these steps.
First of all, make sure that you use the iCal>File>Back up Database menu command.
Next, Try refreshing the iCal plist file. Quit iCal and find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder. Drag the file to your Desktop, log out/in or restart and check iCal for normal behavior.
If that is unsuccessful, then select iCal>Preferences...>General> and then de-select/re-select "Show Birthdays Calendar."
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I cannot see the B-day calendar on iCal. It is set ON within iCal calendars, the Bdays are set in Address. I can see the Bdays on both iPad and iPhone, any clues?
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While logged as 'Y' you can load 'X's calendar (if you have permission) by manually entering the appropriate url, http(s)://[domainof_server]/ical/[username_of'X']

ICal alarms for Birthdays

Greetings,
I have read all the old posts about setting an alarm for birthdays and how this function seems at this point to be lacking. I even downloaded the wonderful little "plug-in" "dates-to-ical" and it works good but creates two different entrys under the date taking more space.
Has Apple made any moves to change this function yet and why can't this simple request be added?
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Hi Julie,
it works good but creates two different entrys under the date taking more space.
This sounds like you are viewing the built in birthday calendar and the Dates to iCal calendar at the same time. Did you uncheck 'Show Birthdays calendar' in iCal's preferences while running Dates to iCal?
Dan, I agree this should be a built in feature of iCal.
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Hi,
I recently upgraded from Tiger to 10.6.7 Leopard. I noticed that iCal did not import my Birthday's calendar that I had manually created in Tiger. None of my birthdays show up except for one when I select "show birthday calendar" in iCal preferences. I have done the following:
Removed from Leopard and replaced with my Tiger data the following:
com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
com.apple.iCal.plist
I have also removed the iCal folder in the Application Support folder in my Library. After I did this I reopened iCal.
That didn't work so I tried removing the Calendars folder from my Library and reopened iCal to no avail.
I also rebooted into Tiger on my external to verify that the missing "birthday' calendar is still there, and it is.
I tried backing it up when I was in Tiger, than rebooting in Leopard and tried importing the backup to no avail also.
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The birthdays for the iCal birthday calendar are taken from your address book
You will need to have one contact page and one birthday in your address book for each person.
Otherwise enter the names onto the correct dates in iCal and set them to repeat each year which is what I have done. I run couples and families in my address book.. Most of the Grandkids don't have their own pages

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Both show up in Notification Center. For example, my friend Bryan's birthday is tomorrow, and it shows twice in the Notification center (once, pulled from the iOS Calendar; the other, synced from iCal).
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1) publish the birthdays calendar from iCal, then
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If you have a MobileMe account and you have Calendars on for over the air syncing, you can't sync direct with iCal via the iTunes sync process. You can do one or the other only, not both at the same time.
At the present time, syncing subscribed calendars over the air is not supported, and the iCal Birthdays calendar is a subscriber calendar. Syncing subscribed calendars will be supported beginning with firmware update 3.0 to be released this summer.
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ICal Alarm for birthdays

I am unable to set an alarm for birthdays. I cannot believe that this is not possible to do, anyone got any ideas?

Hi,
A lot of people on this forum seem to want this feature.
I have written an Applescript Studio application that duplicates the functioning of the birthdays calendar (syncing dates to iCal in the background), plus adding a lot of extra features, including alarms.
Dates to iCal automatically syncs your Address Book birthdays, anniversaries and custom dates to iCal, creating alarmed, editable events in a seperate calendar. With Dates to iCal you can:
- Add Address Book date events automatically to iCal.
- Choose which event types you want added (birthdays, custom dates or both).
- Have any type of alarm you like for the event, from a message to emailing a whole Address Book Group.
- Choose the notice in days and hours the alarms are set for.
- Manually make changes (i.e. adding notes) to these events.
- Add birthdays manually for people you don't have a seperate card for in Address Book.
It is freeware. To get a copy go to www.nhoj.co.uk.
Best wishes
John M
Disclaimer: Although Dates to iCal is free, I do ask for donations on my site. So, in compliance with the Apple Discussions Use Agreement, I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.
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Ical alarms and birthdays...please help

I am trying to get all of my birthdays to use the same alarm settings. I went in and set up one persons birthday alarm setting but cant figure out how to get all of them to send an alarm without going to each and every birthday listing. I have a "calendar" set up called, Birthdays that they are all listed under. Is there an easy way to do this?

So, it sounds like I may have been experiencing the same problem as everyone else (general iCal alarm issues). The location of the preferences file you provided is exactly what I was looking for! I deleted the file, created a test event with an alarm a few mins in the future, and BAM! It worked! For the first time in over... a couple years now (?) I actually saw an iCal alarm.
Possible causes of my error: while i think it may have been upgrades, software bugs, mobileme, etc. it seems one unexplored possibility was when my machine ran out of a charge (batteries) and the date was reset to 1969. I checked the date of the file you mentioned above--crated date was 1969. So, it was cycling through hundreds of alarms since I got my machine (2004).
In short... THANK YOU FOR POSTING THAT LOCATION OF THAT FILE. I hope I am not speaking prematurely and that this issue does not crop up again. If so, at least I have a decent workaround. Cheers.

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