ICal Alarm Repeat Options

Is there any way to have additional repeat options other than the ones presented when trying to reset the iCal pop-up alarm? In other words it offers a repeat choice of 1 or 2 hours and I would like to be able to reset it to pop up at different hour intervals. This also applys to minutes, days, weeks.

Welcome to the discussions. I know of no way of changing it. Use OS X Feedback to ask Apple, and maybe we will get lucky in some future release ...
AK

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I went into iCal to edit a new event and there is no repeat option now! There is the option for an alert or invite, but no way to set this event to repeat. HELP.

This does not work for editing "REPEAT" on my MACBook?
Followed your instructions with an existing event that had a 6 week repeat frequency.
All showed up to edit BUT NOT THE REPEAT FREQUENCY?
Wanted to change to 4 weeks repeat, but field not displayed to be able to edit it?
Still not figured how to edit repeat frequency field?
rm2426

Changing the default Repeat Times list in iCal Alarms?

Has anyone ever figured out a way to change the default "repeat times" list on iCal Alarms?
[img]http://img.skitch.com/20091129-xe9qr7yt94d8e6bq5pp3nya574.jpg[/img]
I'd love to add a few to iCal's current offerings, like "4 hours" "8 hours" etc.

Dear Rich
Welcome to Apple Forums,
I'm not sure about either of these but it used to be that you could rook the finder into opening in which ever view you wanted by double clicking on your hard drive icon on your desk top changing it to the view you want and then resizing it slightly. If you then close it and reopen it it should open to list view again. Again i'm not sure that this still works but its better than nothing. Also there is a free program called Cocktail that might do it for you( i have an old version and there for the newer version might have it when might doesn't). I hope one of these two ideas works out for you.

ICal Alarms Fail Repeatedly

Since upgrading to Leopard (currently 10.5.7), iCal alarms have failed to appear several times. That is, they work for a while, then stop working. This didn't happen at first. But when it was clear iCal alarms were not working (I ran several tests) I called Apple. The expert had me delete a number of files (Cache folder and several plists) and restart the computer. Problem solved.
Or maybe not. About a week later alarms failed again. I called Apple again, and talked to two experts. The first had me restart the computer. An alarm popped up. Then she had me delete several things and try another test--no alarm. I restarted the computer again and an alarm popped up. A test in a new user account worked, so apparently the software is OK.
Next she passed me to expert #2. He had me make sure iCal and iCal Helper were in the list of startup items. He was certain this would solve the problem. 2 tests (iCal running, iCal not running) both produced alarms. Problem solved.
Or maybe not. Another week has passed and alarms failed again. Tried a test--failure. I restarted the computer and alarms DO work again. But why is that necessary when for years (in earlier versions) it wasn't?
I'm about to call Apple again. But does any expert not employed by Apple have any ideas?

Charles,
Hopefully, Apple will come up with a solution as I'm obviously not the only person having this problem.
I concur, but in order for Apple to be informed of this problem you should also Provide iCal Feedback.
;~)

How can I get iCal alarm to sync with my iPhone 4?

My iCal alarm won't sync with my iPhone 4 if I add the event using iCal on my Mac. I find that if I set an alarm on iCal, I only get an alert on my computer. If I add an event on my iPhone, I get a pop up alarm on both the phone and the computer. I want to be able to add an event on my computer and get an alert on both devices. Is this option even possible?

Turn up the alert volume all the way in Sounds. Lock it so you can't change it with the buttons.

I've read two solutions to my problem and neither worked. I can't get the repeat option to show in some events, though it does appear in others.

I can't get the "repeat" option to show in some events, though it does appear in others. How can i get it to show when I need it? (I read two "soluntions" that supposedly worked, but neither worked for me.)

Greetings,
I can't say I've seen that behavior before. I' be curious to see a screen shot of it in the edit mode where you edit the fields.
Beyond that I'll offer generic troubleshooting steps:
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats > Region. Region should be set to the country of your choice. Do not have it set to "Custom" as this can have unexpected results in the iCal window.
If that doesn't resolve the issue:
1. First make an iCal backup: Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal one at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
2. Go to iCal > Quit iCal
3. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
--- NOTE: To get to "Home > Library" in Lion: Click anywhere on the desktop and then click on the "Go" menu at the top of the computer screen while holding down the "option" key on the keyboard. You will see "Library" in the menu.
4. Launch iCal and test.
If the issue persists:
1. Go to iCal > Quit iCal
2. Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
--- NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
3. Launch iCal and test.
Hope that helps!

ICal Alarm - Pass Event data to AppleScript?

Is there a way that a script called by an iCal alarm can be passed event data as parameters?

This is a quick one I knocked up a while back to see if it was possible. The problem is that iCal doesn't tell the script what event triggered it, so you have to go looking ...
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">(*
called from iCal as on alarm, will speak the title of the alarm event
won't work for repeating events
AK ITCarlow Nov 2004
set Now to current date
-- Adjust FuzzSeconds to suit; if too big, close events will speak several times
set FuzzSeconds to 15
tell application "iCal"
set MyEvents to every event of every calendar where ((start date of it) ≥ (current date))
repeat with ThisEvent in MyEvents --scan the list looking for events that have triggered us
try
set MinutesBefore to (trigger interval of open file alarm of ThisEvent) as number
set TriggerInt to (Now - ((start date of ThisEvent) + 60 * MinutesBefore)) --notionally 0 for firing event
if (TriggerInt < FuzzSeconds) and (TriggerInt > (-FuzzSeconds)) then
say (summary of ThisEvent as text) & " at " & (start date of ThisEvent as text)
--could say other fields too eg location, description ...
end if
end try
end repeat
end tell
</pre>
AK

ICal alarms won't Open File

I created two Automator actions, one to mount a server and one to eject the server. Both actions work fine in the Finder. I saved them both as iCal plug-ins to run the same time every day. While the server is mounted Backup runs and backs up my Mac to the server.
The problem is the Mount Server plug-in doesn't work, only the Eject Server plug-in, so when I come in to work each morning, Backup is waiting for the server. Then I have to mount it and wait 20+ minutes for Backup to run before I can get to work.
Can anyone think of why this particular plug-in isn't working? When I go to ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/iCal/Mount Backup.app and simply double click the Automator action it works fine. It's iCal that's acting flaky. I've also tried an AppleScript that mounts the server, but that didn't work either. (ejecting still works fine)
I'm stumped. Any help/clues would be appreciated. I'm running 10.4.5 on a Dual 1.8 GHz G5 with 3 GB RAM.

Sorry, I'm a long time "end user." The terminal makes me nervous. But I did end up fixing the problem.
I was setting the iCal alarm to open at a specific time during an all day event. (i.e. all day event, alarm set for 7:00 pm) That wasn't working. When Automator created the event it set it as a timed event with an untimed alarm (i.e. 7:00 pm to 7:00 pm, alarm set to 0 minutes before) which makes less sense to me, but it works so what do I know. I adjusted the repeat schedule to my liking and all is well.
Incidentally, the AppleScript that mounted the server was essentially "double-clicking" an alias of the server. The Automator action was mounting it based on it's IP address on the network. I'm sure they work about the same way, but the AppleScript still doesn't work in iCal. I think it's because Automator uses magic.

ICal alarm corruption?

My iCal alarm options are showing some funny things:
send email to <myemail> 15 minutes before
send email to <myemail> 23025 minutes before
Play sound "my email" 15 minutes before
None - corrupted information.
Any one now what this is and how to fix it?

I have had the same problem for some time. I have reported it at least once but in spite of there being a number of updates to MacOS X since then, nothing has changed. It must be a very simple piece of code to fix.
I keep hoping that it will be fixed in the next update. Maybe in Snow Leopard.

Disable ical alarms temporarily (e. g. for 2 hours) by apple script ?

Hi,
I'm searching for a way to disable the ical alarm pop-ups temporarily (e. g. for 2 hours).
Is there a way to do that?
Why?
For people giving presentations with MS PowerPoint or Keynote it might be a problem if during the talk a window pops open - maybe even with private content..
I know that there is the option in the preferences, but once I used it I forgot to re-activate the alarms, so it would be better to define for how long the alarms will be disabled before.
Does anyone know how to do that?
If there's no complete solution, it would at least be interesting to know how to access this option by AppleScript.
Martin

My iCal is up to date in OSX Lion and the script below is working for me. It doesn't actually take time into account, like beckmart had wanted and I'm not very applescript savvy so I just put it into an automator workflow using the script twice with a "pause" in between.
tell application "iCal" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "iCal"
          click menu item 3 of menu 1 of menu bar item 2 of menu bar 1
          click button 3 of tool bar 1 of window 1
          click checkbox 1 of window 1
          click menu item 10 of menu 1 of menu bar item 3 of menu bar 1
end tell
tell application "iCal" to quit

ICal Alarms Request

Use my MBP all the time while teaching classes. Please give more choices for the iCal alarms. I have to turn them off when I'm teaching because I don't want them popping up during class on the projection screen. But then I don't remember to turn it back on after class. Days go by and I forget the alarms function is off and miss all kinds of alerts. The previous version had an option to only allow alarms to come on if iCal itself was running. Much better. Please bring that back or something even better. Thanks!

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Strange behavior for iCal alarms

To run an AppleScript from an iCal alarm you do the following:
In Automator, create a Calendar Alarm
Select Utilities from the library pane
Select & drag Run AppleScript into the workflow area
Copy/paste an AppleScript into the Run AppleScript box
Save the newly created Calendar Alarm with name (e.g. ArchNew)
This will open the Automator Calendar in iCal
Edit the Date/Time/Repeat/...... as you want as shown in the example below
The resulting AppleScript will be stored here
/Users/<user_acct>/Library/Workflows/Applications/Calendar/ArchNew.app
Now the problem
If at a later time you want to modify the AppleScript ArchNew.app using the AppleScript Editor, it will break the binding between the iCal alarm and the AppleScript ArchNew.app
The only way I've been able to do this is delete the file
/Users/<user_acct>/Library/Workflows/Applications/Calendar/ArchNew.app
and then go back to #1 above and repeat the whole process with the modified AppleScript.
Does anyone know why the simple approach of directly editing and saving the changes to the AppleScript ArchNew.app doesn't work?

You still haven't provided your 4 digit Oracle version or the TABLE and INDEX DDL.
Your 'problem' could be nothing more than DEFERRED SEGMENT creation where Oracle doesn't allocate space until the first data is added for that segment.
See 'Understanding Deferred Segment Creation' in the DBA Guide
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25494/tables002.htm#CHDGJAGB
>
Understand Deferred Segment Creation
Beginning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, when you create heap-organized tables in a locally managed tablespace, the database defers table segment creation until the first row is inserted.
In addition, segment creation is deferred for any LOB columns of the table, any indexes created implicitly as part of table creation, and any indexes subsequently explicitly created on the table.
Note:
In Release 11.2.0.1, deferred segment creation is not supported for partitioned tables. This restriction is removed in release 11.2.0.2 and later.
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That is why it is MANDATORY that posters provide their 4 digit Oracle versions. There are too many features that depend on the version being used.

Can I permanently keep the iCal alarm dialog box where I want it on screen

I've switched to iCal completely after living with Entourage for years. What I liked about the MS Office Notifications is that they open in the same position where I last left it. However, the iCal alarm always opens in the center of the screen. What's really maddening is that if I drag the alarm to the position I want it (and leave it open even), the next alarm pops it back to the center of the screen. Arghh!
Positioning it followed by quitting and relaunching iCal doesn't work. Is there any way to keep it where I want it?

This happens sometimes... it is just a bug.
This message is probably coming from your HP update manager.
An explanation: The Update manager is supposed to (of course) give you the option to download and install any available HP updates. The lack of the buttons is a buggy bit that shows up in bad instructions - sometimes the result of old code, and sometimes the result of -- the buggy bits.
Try updating your HP Support Assistant
First, get rid of any older version:
Control Panel > icon view > Programs and Features >
Scroll down, find, and Uninstall HP Support Assistant.
Restart your computer after uninstalling the existing version of Support Assistant.
Install the Latest Version of the Support Assistant
HP Support Assistant
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You can control WHEN update messages shows up,
AND whether it shows up at all.
After the Support Assistant is updated:
Call up (Open) HP Support Assistant > (Launch HP Support Assistant) >
Tune-up > View Settings > View Notification Settings >
For example: Set / CHECK "Taskbar Only" >> to turn OFF popups...
So...Select as desired... > Apply > Close the Support Assistant
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Another method to qauickly control HP Update:
Start > search / type "HP Update" > Click on HP Update to Open >
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I hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
Dragon-Fur

Red X - Dismissing iCal Alarms

I've never been able to locate documentation or even a discussion on what happens when you dismiss several iCal alarms all at once by using the window close (red X) button. Can someone fill me in please.
Also, anyone know of a way to get options for dismissing multiple simultaneous alarms such as: snooze all for n minutes, dismiss all for good, or snooze until the top of the next hour.
And, Apple iCal Dev, please size the alarm box to fit the simultaneous alarms. So much elegance, and then this.
Thanks.

Software is not designed to oblige.

Ical alarm keeps trying to open file from old location

I have an iCal alarm to open an accounts file each day.
I moved the file to another folder,
and selected the new location iniCal.
It always gives me this:
Could not open file because 'Old/Path/to/File' could not be found.
When I look at the alarm section in the iCal event, there is a list of files.
When I choose the file (with the same file name) in the NEW folder, this list of files doesnt seem to update.
Is there of forcing iCal to open my new file path?
or a way of taking the OLD file out of this list?
Thank you for your help
Frazer

I just found how to removed the old files from my list
in the terminal I type:
open library/preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist
and then delete the entries under PersistentMenu
Would still love to hear a more user friendly way to do this.
And a way to just get iCal to open the new file path, or how best to report this bug to apple

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