Double iCal Events and Birthdays (and more)

I've been having issues with my iPhone long before iCloud, that repeatable events tend to appear in pairs in my phone and sometimes my computer iCal as well. I tried to modify the iCloud calendar directly, adding new event and see if bpth my phone and my computer can get it. It turns out that my iPhone gets the updated event but my computer remain ignorant of the change. What's going on

I found a fairly inefficient workaround but it works, if anyone is interested.
This will create a list of specific events and tasks and email them.
Automator:
Find iCal Events (specify criteria)
New TextEdit Document
Find iCal To Dos (specify criteria)
Set Contents of TextEdit Document (Append)
Get Contents of TextEdit Document
New Mail Message
Send Outgoing Messages
(Textedit document to Trash)

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Double Calendar events and notifications

Hello everyone,
I am getting double Calendar events and notifications, that is, instead of getting and seeing one notification/calendar event, I get two of the same one.
Yesterday I was setting up iCloud so it may have something to do with that but I don't know what.
Also, in my Calendar Settings, I have the same calendars listed ( Work, Home, Personal, etc) under "From my Mac" and the another under iCloud.
This might have something to do with it too ...
But I still don't know what I need to do in order to stop getting double notifications and alerts.
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thanks!!

okey-dokey, and now imagine I have 250 events in calendar
sitting one hour somewhere and changing some of them in such a manner - will make anyone mad... unless he has non-nokia device... mua-ha-ha
Of course it's related to the bug you described (I've encountered it too).
But regarding my initial problem as in header of topic - I'm pretty sure it does exist.
I deleted ALL entries in my Nokia calendar and have been ultimately suprized to hear reminder popping up. I even searched through calendar and alarms to see if anything left by chance. No - both were empty. Presume this bug is somehow related to the second one you described.Message Edited by sidream on 16-Oct-200704:14 PM

Time machine backing up iCal events and Contacts with icloud

Is Time Machine backing up my iCal events and contacts? The reason I ask is because I have it set so they are stored ONLY on iCloud, NOT locally. Is this getting backed up too by Time Machine? I hope so! Because, if something were to fail, or if I were ever to accidentally delete a contact, I might like to be able to travel to the past and recuperate that contact.
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Wants to delete my contacts + double posting iCal events and not syncing

Hi everyone!
I hope you can help me.
I have an iPhone + MacBook + iMac and use MobileMe as well. My iphone was full which resulted in it not syncing with my computers. I double checked the settings and saw the "Info syncing" had been turned off for some reason, which I then turned on, and I checked the MobileMe settings as well.
So the situation is this now:
My iCal events are not getting synced to my computer from iPhone or MobileMe.
My iPhone has "double up" some events, meaning that I write them into the phone or my computer, they get uploaded to MobileMe, then synced back to my iPhone and thus appearing twice. I think these are the "old" events that were writing in before my MobileMe account was set up for syncing.
iSync wants to delete 195 contacts on my computers, without modifying or adding any. I did this with my iMac and sure enough some 195 contacts were deleted! Aw! How do I get these back?
My MacBook keeps prompting me with the some message, saying that syncing with MobileMe will delete 195 contacts, even though I have all these contacts present on my iPhone and my computer now.
I do not understand what is happening. I can send the contacts to my iMac and add them again, but I am afraid that these will then appear twice as well. Why can does calender on my iPhone show both the ones I write into the phone and from MobileMe? Shouldn't these be "synced" via MobileMe, so all I have to do is set it up and it should take care of itself? And why oh why does it want to delete 195 contacts? I think these are all my contacts apart from the 5 most recent which I wrote into the iPhone.
Can anyone help me? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
Mc

Hi,
I'm afraid you're asking in the wrong place. This is the iSync forum - which is for syncing contact and calendars to non-Apple mobile phones only. iSync doesn't sync between Macs or with MobileMe.
MobileMe syncing is handled by *MobileMe Sync*, and the forum for that is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
However, you may need to reset your sync data. The process for that is described in this Apple Support Document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1497

Load new pictures to exiting events and more questions.

When I load new pictures to iphoto how can I add them to existing events?
When I create albums do the pictures I put in there get "copied" or are they just linking to the originals in events? I don't want to rack up all my memory creating albums.
If I add, modify, or delete pictures in the events will it update my albums too?
How can I resize a picture to load it too ebay or something?
Where are the actuall files kept on the hard drive so I can copy them to a flash drive or something?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
When I load new pictures to iphoto how can I add them to existing events?
You can't. You can move them once they are imported by drag and drop, or by flagging the pics and then selecting your target Event and going Events menu -> Add Flagged Photos to Selected Event.
When I create albums do the pictures I put in there get "copied" or are they just linking to the originals in events? I don't want to rack up all my memory creating albums.
They are simply referenced. A pic can be in 1,000 Albums and use no more disk space than if it were in 1. A pic cannot be in more than one Event without being duplicated. In any case, it's not your Memory that would get used up, it's your HD space.
If I add, modify, or delete pictures in the events will it update my albums too?
If you add pics to an Event they will not be automatically added to an Album unless it is a Smart Album. As the pics in an Album are referenced, if you edit the pic in an Event it's edited in the Album, if you trash pic from an Event it's removed from the Album etc.
How can I resize a picture to load it too ebay or something?
Select the pic in the iPhoto Window and use the File -> Export command. In the resulting window you have various options, including resizing the pic.
Where are the actuall files kept on the hard drive so I can copy them to a flash drive or something?
By default your Library is in your Pictures Folder. It's called the, er, iPhoto Library. It's a Package File. This is simply a folder that looks like a file in the Finder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
Want to see inside: Right click on the Library icon and go 'Show Package Contents'. A Finder window opens with the Library exposed.
Standard Warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 Only*
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Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
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2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
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ICal events and time zone change

Has anyone scoped out what happens to iCal events when your MBP moves between time zones and automatically changes the date and time settings? In general, I'd like my calendar events to be fixed at the time in the time zone where they are supposed to occur, and not where the MBP is, but of course I'd like the MBP to be telling me the time where it actually is. I don't think iCal does it this way, but I'm not sure how it handles time differences. Anybody know?

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ApplesScript needed to copy iCal event and move into different calendar

Hello
I hope someone can help with this request.
For starters, I'm clueless on AppleScript and don't have the time or energy to learn it.
I am looking for a script that will copy an event in one calendar and move it to my CalDav (Google) calendar - which I intend using as my primary calendar going forward.
My techie friends give me strange looks when I explain how I came to this situation: I have to accept Outlook meeting invitations in Entourage to avoid the problem of events showing up 2 hours early (or late - can't remember which) in iCal. I have iCal and Entourage synced, with the events being pushed to iCal in a calendar named 'Entourage'.
I would like any 'Entourage' events to be copied and moved to my Google calendar, after which it syncs with the cloud.
Any assistance or advice?
Many thanks
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There's a strong element of irony in coming across a solution after doing a search on 'Entourage' and 'Google Calendar' syncing.
Calgoo Connect - http://www.calgoo.com/connect/index.do - does a decent job of syncing iCal & GCal.
Thanks to MacBitz for the solution and setup guidelines: http://macbitz.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/entourage-and-google-calendar-all-synced -up/
The nice thing is you can choose which of your iCal calendars to sync.
I use Entourage to accept meeting requests - iCal used to have trouble with time zones in meeting requests sent from Outlook - so have used the work-around of accepting in Entourage, and syncing it with iCal. This syncing process creates a separate calendar in iCal.
In theory, I could simply use that as my primary calendar - which I haven't thus far, but may well do.
As the synched Google Calendar shows up in iCal, you do end up with duplications showing if you have all calendars visible. So all I've done is hide the visibility of the Entourage calendar (and my other calendars) so that all I see is my GCal.
It's a little clumsy, I'll admit, but it does the job. Which is all a little too Microsoft-ish for my liking
Hope this helps anyone else trying to sync with GCal
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When syncing with Google Calendar invitees added to iCal events wont work

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It may be a coincidence, but when I started using Spanning Sync, I
found that when I create a new iCal event and include someone in the
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Hello, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I am guessing you setup the http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html
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My wife and I share iCal calendar events between our Mac's via email. A month or so ago I started getting this error when clicking on the link that comes with the iCal event email:
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We are both on Intel Powermacs running OS 10.4.11 and have the same version of iCal (2.0.5). I can still email her iCal events and she can add them to her calendar just fine. But anything she sends me gives me this error.
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Travis,
I had the exact same problem (with my wife's iCal account to boot ). The solution lies in the "(null) informs you..." It turns out that iCal looks at your personal address card to figure out who you are when populating the email. So, if don't have the email address you are sending FROM listed under your address book entry, then the notice is from NULL.
I added my wife's email accounts to her address book entry on her machine (sorry for the bolds, but the details count.) Then I tried sending a calendar event from her iCal to me. This time it populated with her name and it added to my calendar just fine when I received the email.
I hope this solution works for you (it drove me crazy for about two weeks.)
-Dave

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When I click the field to add an invitee to my ical event and start typing the name, my address book contacts come up. I keep clicking the name of the person I want to invite and then if I press enter, tab or click elsewhere the name disappears. Ive also tried just typing in the email address but no matter what I try to do, it just wont let me submit it.
Any suggestions?

I was looking for this answer too. I think I found it here: https://discussions.apple.com///thread/3141227?start=0&tstart=0
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Scripting iCal Events

As part of a school project, my students gather weather data when a specific NASA satellite passes over our school. We have to keep an eye on the schedule we receive and collect our data. Every once in a while we forget and miss an overpass. I decided to enter the satellite overpasses as iCal events and have an alarm sound to remind us. This tedious task of entering the events sounds like a great job for AppleScript. This AppleScript project is a little over my head because I don't understand insides of iCal and AppleScripting.
The satellite schedule comes as text in an email and looks like this:
Date & Time | Satellite Position
Mo Day Year Local UT | view sat azm relative solar sat. position sat
Time | zenith fr. N azimuth zenith lat. long dir
Local Time = UT + (-6.0)
9 16 2008 12:19 18 19 | 6.46 104.44 51.37 40.32 39.94 249.13 des
9 17 2008 13:02 19 02 | 54.05 289.85 117.31 38.45 42.22 239.04 des
9 18 2008 12:07 18 07 | 27.40 102.13 49.98 42.00 39.43 252.03 des
9 19 2008 12:50 18 50 | 42.63 287.75 119.55 39.58 41.48 241.85 des
9 20 2008 11:55 17 55 | 43.58 99.08 49.57 43.80 39.09 254.98 des
The only important info for our observations is the Mo, Day, Year and UT time — the other satellite info is not relevant to our observations.
How would I write a AppleScript that would strip away the unimportant info and create a different event each time for the satellite overpass? The iCal event would need to start 15 minutes before and end 15 minutes after the UT time given.
TIA
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Here is some sample code.
-- Code starts here --
property tFile : "HD01:Users:dev_sleidy:Desktop:SatelitePasses.txt" -- Location of Satellite information file.
property tCalendar : "Satellite" -- Name of 'iCal' 'Calendar'.
set tText to paragraphs 5 through -1 of (read file tFile) -- Obtain specific lines (paragraphs) of Satellite information file data.
set {oASTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, " "} -- Configure delimiter.
tell application "iCal" -- Focus on 'iCal' commands.
tell calendar tCalendar -- Focus within the 'tCalendar' calendar.
repeat with i in tText -- Cycle through the obtain paragraphs of data.
tell i to set {tMonth, tDay, tYear, tTime, uHour, uMinute} to {first text item as number, second text item as number, third text item as number, fourth text item, fifth text item, sixth text item} -- Obtain specific information from within a paragraaph.
-- Create a new 'date' based on obtained Satellite data.
set tDate to (((tYear as string) & "-" & my handle_Number(tMonth)) & "-" & my handle_Number(tDay)) & "T" & tTime as «class isot» as date
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set tEvent to make new event at end with properties {start date:tDate, end date:tDate, description:(uHour & "." & uMinute & " UTC")}
tell tEvent to make new display alarm at end with properties {trigger interval:-15}
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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on handle_Number(lNumber) -- Manage single digit date values.
if (lNumber < 10) then set lNumber to "0" & lNumber
return (lNumber as string)
end handle_Number
-- Code ends here --
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I lost my iCal events and don't know how to restore them. Time Machine dosen't work on iCal.
Anyone know an easy (I hhope) way to solve this problem?

YES! it worked.
I went through all my font in the Font Book application and deleted all duplicate fonts, and put all my user fonts into the systems folder and then disabled and deleted all the duplicates again.
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