ICal and Alarms

I have numerous recurring events set up in my iCal. Everything transferred over fine using BlackBerry for Mac Desktop Manager, but when you look at the event on the BlackBerry itself, no reminder/alarm shows. The alarm still works on my computer. Any idea why this isn't transferring over?
Thanks.
-b

I finally got everything on my BB correctly, but it took a lot of work that some might not want to go through.
1. I uninstalled and removed any files associated with PocketMac.
2. I uninstalled Desktop manager.
3. I corrected all the information on my Mac. This took a long time, and I had to remove some calendars that were read-only. They weren't being used anymore, so it wasn't a big deal. I have 3 calendars.
4. I created archives of iCal, Address book and Notes.
5. I reinstalled Desktop manager.
6. I wiped the BB. Yeah, I had to erase everything and start from brand new.
7. I setup the BB itself. The thing that seemed to be most important, especially for iCal, was to change the Time Zone in Options-Date/Time.
8. I connected the BB and setup Desktop Manager. I did a sync with all 4 PIM options, selecting replace all data on device. I also selected all calendars for Calendar and Tasks
9. I ejected the device and checked that my data was correct, both on the Mac and device.
10. I turned on the cellular connection.
11. I went to the BlackBerry/provider website and sent service books.
At this time everything is where it is supposed to be. I even did another sync, after starting and quitting iTunes, to sync music.
I am scared to do to many more syncs at this point. With everything working I don't feel like spending hours and hours to fix it again.
OSX 10.6.8, Bold 9650 v6.0.0.524

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ICal/email alarm issue, please help if you can....

Hello. I am just starting to use iCal and have been setting email alarms to remind me of my iCal events. Here is the issue I am having, if mail is closed and the email alarm time has gone by, the email does not show up. Any ideas?
Another thing I noticed is that if I am on my computer, mail is closed, and an alarm time comes by - mail will open up on its own but an email never shows up in my inbox. Any ideas on this one?
Thanks,
Steve

Your problem is that the command you're trying to run includes spaces.
Spaces are used by the shell to delimit arguments, so when you say:
script with command " sudo /Volumes/Adobe CS3 Design Premium/AdobeCS3/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup"
The shell sees this as the command 'sudo' with four arguments - "/Volumes/Adobe", "CS3", "Design", and "Premium/AdobeCS3/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup". It's no wonder it doesn't work.
You have a couple of options. One is to escape each of the spaces by preceeding them with a backslash. This tells the shell to treat the next character as a real character, not as a delimiter, e.g. "/Volumes/Adobe\ CS3\ Design\ Premium...". If you take this approach, though, you need to be aware that AppleScript also uses the backslash to escape characters, so you need to escape the backslash itself - the first one tells AppleScript to treat the second backslash as a literal, and so the shell sees the second backslash and can deal with the spaces:
>do script "sudo /Volumes/Adobe\\ CS3\\ Design\\ Premium/AdobeCS3/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup --mode=silent --deploymentFile=/Volumes/Adobe\\ C3\\ Design\\ Premium/AdobeCS3/deployment/liteinstall.xml"
The other option is to use the 'quoted form of' a string. 'Quoted form' takes a string and makes it shell-safe:
<pre class=command>tell application "Terminal"
set myCommand to "/Volumes/Adobe CS3 Design Premium/AdobeC3 blah blah blah"
do script "sudo " & quoted form of myCommand
end tell</pre>
Depending on what else you're doing, you might also find it easier to eschew the Terminal altogether and just run the command directly via 'do shell script', but the same caveats apply.

How to "In Effect" Turn Off Time Zone on iCal AND main computer

I am hopeful that this will help those of us who don't want to have any form of Time Zone on our computers or iCal. I read some of the other posts and see that it does not appear an option to completely turn off all Time Zones on the computer and iCal.
What I am thinking about doing, is trying to "Trick" my computer & ical into thinking it doesn't ever go anywhere and thus leaves all of my appointments where they are - no matter what time zone I am actually in.
I hope those of you more knowledgable can please help me see if this will work, or not?
I am hoping that by leaving Time Zone Support turned "Off" in iCal and leaving my computer at a 'manual' Mountain Time Zone (meaning I don't have it set to have it automatically set to the right time - I will set it manually), my appointments will stay put (not move around 8 hours when I go to Italy &/or back to the US)?
I can set the time "manually" to the correct time when I am in either US or Italy so my computer will reflect the current time, but still be set in Mountain Time Zone? Will the alarms still work on calendar events?
The only drawback I can see so far, is that all of the times on emails are messed up (i.e., off by 8 hours) when I am actually in Italy because I still do have the main computer time zone set as Mountain Time - US.
I am willing to live with this (I think?) if it leaves my appointment times alone.
Someone on a similar thread had wanted iCal to function like a paper planner - that is exactly what I am looking for as well! (it looked like that thread was a bit older, so that's why I posted this new question. It is my first on this type of forum, so forgive me if I am doing something wrong - and please advise! :~)
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I am being driven crazy by, what I suppose to be, the same issue. I have used the Time Zone Support feature to somewhat limited success.
I frequently travel between different time zones am confused on how to set up iCal to show the times of my events *in the place where they occur*. When I am in LA and I have a concert in Chicago later in the week, I don't need to know what time the Chicago concert is in LA.
Syncing my Treo 650 adds another problem. Publishing the calendars adds another as the published times are not listed in the time zone where the events occur but rather what time zone my laptop is in.
This seems simple to me, but I may be missing something. Here are my wishes:
1. As I travel with my MacBook Pro that I can change my Date and Time preference to actually list the time zone where I am. Easily done...but...
2. That the event times in iCal are unaffected by the changing of the Date and Time preference adjustment...(after all the concert in Chicago is still at 3pm on Friday, even if I am in Tokyo on Monday. I need to know the time of the Chicago concert in Chicago time, not Tokyo.)
3. That calendars that I publish list the time in the place where the event occurs. I have students that need to know their lesson times but are consantly confused because the published times reflect whatever time zone I happen to be in...not where the lessons take place.
4. That when I sync my Treo the event times automatically adjust to whichever time zome the treo picks up off the network time server. When I land in a new time zone, I need to know the the rehearsal starts at 10, in the city where I have just arrived.
I have recently switched to the Apple PIM apps from Entourage...where, if I never changed the time zone, everything was fine.
Sorry for the longish cry for help.
Thanks

Reliability of iCal (and Entourage)?

I am about to need a program like this for very important things, and I'm nervous about relying on it.
I entered a number of things in iCal awhile back (Panther at that time, I now have Tiger), including when library books were due, and discovered that it was randomly deleting events. How reliable is it--have others had problems like this?
Does anyone have any idea whether Entourage is more (or less) reliable than iCal (and Address Book)?
Thank you so much.

of course I can only talk about my experience, and since I have been using ical - now in my fourth year actively - I have never had any problem. I use it with the native mail app, both for work, where we have an Exchange server, and at home, and it seems to be doing just fine. I have many different calendars can send invitations, receive and accept invitations, set alarms, to dos... Of course I back up regularly and also before any software upgrade I do.
hope this helps.

Ical and to-do lists

I was just wondering why iCal doesn't have another bar on it: there's a bar on the left for our list of calendars (and a full month calendar at the bottom of that) and then you have the calendar that takes up the right side. Why can't we have a third bar that runs along the bottom of the calendar when we have it set to look at a week at a time? That third bar is divided up so that it aligns with the day above it. In those spaces we could create a to-do list for that day.
Just as we are able to assign a colour to a calendar for each facet for our lives (e.g. purple for work calendar, green for meetings, etc.), we would be able to assign a colour to each task so that we know if it is work-related task, phone calls to make, errands to run, steps leading up to the completing of a project, grocery list, etc. We could check them off when we complete them, but it wouldn't necessarily delete them. (I hold onto old, work-related to-do lists for a year because my work is cyclical and I like referring back to them for details or a timeline.)
And just like iCal, we would be able to set a starting and ending date and time, alarm, notes, invite, URL, etc.
Or maybe I'm just asking for too much and this would only be useful to me?

Try requesting Appigo to support Mobile Me syncing?
This site is easier to browse/search for applications than the App Store in iTunes:
http://appshopper.com/
Search for a to-do app that supports MobileMe syncing. OmniFocus does MobileMe syncing (though the HOW of it looks a little strange to me), and I assume it will hook into iCal.
Other than that, you aren't really looking for an app. You are looking for a service that keeps to-dos online, AKA in the cloud. Probably any such reputable service will hook into an iPhone app somehow, and may also have a desktop app. Or possibly you'll need a second utility that pulls into from iCal and sends it to the service.
I think I may have read that Appigo will cooperate with Toodledo.com. This post also mentions Remember the Milk, may be helpful:
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/30/appigo-sync-brings-ical-todo-syncing-with-iphone- app/
Also ask Apple to sync iCal to-dos to the iPhone via MobileMe. People have been asking for years, but another complaint can't hurt:
http://apple.com/feedback

ICal and BIRTHDAYS...HELP!

OK, iCal 2.02 and i understand the names must be put into the Address book to get them into the NON EDITABLE iCal, but WHAT if i have 4 brothers and they all have wives and 5 kids...i MUST enter a card for each just to put the birthdays in? Is this correct or am i missing something? What have other's done?
Is it time to go to MS Entourage?

Hi Steven,
I agree with you. That is why I wrote the Applescript below. It makes a calendar called myBirthdays in iCal and copies any new birthdays from Address Book when it is run. The calendar is editable, so you can add extra birthdays to it. When you add birthdays to Address Book just run the script again.
If you like the script it can be saved as an application, so it can be run with one click.
Best wishes
John M
-- copy below this line into Script Editor --
-- myBirthday
-- Copy birthdays from Address Book to iCal
-- John Maisey -- 30 May 2005 -- for iCal 2
-- No longer deletes myBirthdays calendar.
-- Now checks for previous myBirthdays calendar.
-- Now checks for previously added birthdays.
set myDays to text returned of (display dialog "How many days notice for display alarm?" default answer 2)
tell application "Address Book"
set nameSet to (name of people whose birth date is not missing value)
set birthDays to (birth date of people whose birth date is not missing value)
end tell
tell application "iCal"
if name of calendars does not contain "myBirthdays" then make new calendar at the end of calendars with properties {title:"myBirthdays"}
set myBirthdays to calendar "myBirthdays"
repeat with aNum from 1 to length of birthDays
if summary of (events of myBirthdays) does not contain ((item aNum of nameSet) & "'s Birthday") as text then
set aBirthday to make new event at the end of myBirthdays with properties {summary:(item aNum of nameSet) & "'s Birthday", start date:(item aNum of birthDays), recurrence:"FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1"}
set allday event of aBirthday to true
make new display alarm at the end of display alarms of aBirthday with properties {trigger interval:-1440 * myDays}
end if
end repeat
end tell

ICal email alarms

My iCal email alarms to myself ALWAYS land in the Mail Junk folder.
I have reset Rules and Learning, and have triple checked the addresses are correct in Address Book and iCal.
What's wrong?

My iCal email alarms to myself ALWAYS land in the Mail Junk folder.
I have reset Rules and Learning, and have triple checked the addresses are correct in Address Book and iCal.
What's wrong?

Ical disable alarms for group calendars

hi there,
i have ical clients setup to access group calendars on a 10.6.2 server. is there a way to disable the alarms for wiki/group calendars?
thanx

Hi,
Open the calendar list in iCal and select the calendar so the background is blue. Press Cmd-I (or choose Get Info from the Edit menu). A sheet should open with the calendar info, there is an ignore alerts option there.
Best wishes
John M

ICal Birthday alarm / alerts on iDevices?

Just quckily does anyone know if you still get an alarm / meant to get an alarm at 00:00 on your iDevices when its someones birthday.
Mine doesn't and I'm wondering if something is broken.
All my birthdays are in iCal on the Macbook with a default alarm set for 00:00. The alarm does go off on the Macbook but nothing happens on the iDevices.
I have got the default alert times on the iPhone set for NONE on birthday, but as its set for 00:00 on iCal it should go off at 00:00 surely?

L Briggs,
You should try Dates to iCal, by John Maisey:
"As well as automatically syncing birthday dates from Address Book, Dates to iCal 2 can sync anniversary and custom dates. It can set up to five alarms for each date in iCal and can also set different alarms for birthdays and anniversaries."
;~)

Ical message alarm pops up randomly

Out of the blue, the iCal message alarm constantly pops up randomly with no message. It doesn't show an event but instead it's blank so it's not reminding me of anything I have. Any suggestions as to how I can fix this?
Thanks.

There was something similar to this recently. It turned out that the problem was caused by setting an alarm on a ToDo, then having a change of mind and unchecking the due date on the ToDo without first removing the alarm. If this could be the case for you, find the ToDo and delete it.
AK

Ical itunes alarm functionality glitch

I am trying to use ical and itunes to use my Mac Mini as an alarm clock. I have the following AppleScript:
tell application "itunes"
run
play user playlist "Morning Songs"
end tell
I have an ical alarm that opens this file at 6:30 am. I also have the energy preferences wake up the computer at 6:29 a.m.
Most things work fine. The computer wakes up at 6:29 (the LED stops fading and remains bright) but the monitor is not illuminated. And the music does not play. However, if I just touch the mouse, the selected playlist begins to play instantaneously, almost as if everything was loaded and ready to go.
What do I need to do to ensure that the computer actually plays the music by itself, without the human intervention?
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Manish
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thanks for the suggestions. I did a smash & grab of several things that seem to have corrected the issue. To answer your question, I had deleted the "Home" and "Work" calendars from iCal (part of the default calendars) a long time ago, but they decided to re-appear for syncing (in iTunes, not in iCal). I tried the following, which seemed to work.
1. Added the "Home" and "Work" calendars back to iCal I had deleted awhile ago (but still show up in iTunes for iPhone syncing).
2. Turned on .Mac syncing for Address Book and iCal (had never been on)
3. Reset sync history as you suggested in iSync (though it told it isn't used for .Mac syncing).
4. Deleted the Home and Work calendars from iCal. Quit iCal.
5. Performed a repair permissions through Disk Utility.
5. Performed a .Mac sync through System Preferences, through the Advanced tab Reset Sync Data button, replacing anything on .Mac with my PB data.
6. Once that was done, performed a sudo periodic daily, weekly & monthly through Terminal.
7. Next did a sudo update_prebinding -root / -force through Terminal.
8. Rebooted. Zapped PRAM 3 times (option-cmd-P-R) during reboot.
This smash & grab fixed the calendars showing up iTunes inappropriately. Not sure which part was most effective, but I didn't feel like doing a detailed troubleshoot -- I just wanted it fixed. Side-effect: my .Mac e-mail account did not show up in iTunes for syncing once I fixed the iCal issue. Solution: with iTunes still open, I opened Mail, changed an account setting, saved it, changed it back to the original setting, saved it again. iTunes now showed my email account as available for syncing.
Seems as if the sync process could use some QA still. Shouldn't have to mess like this with Apple-to-Apple apps & hardware. This is the sort of stuff I used to have to mess with using iSync & Missing Sync with my Treo 650. Oh well, at least it's fixed for now.

Ical default alarm time

Every reminder I set in ical pops up with a default time of 11:45 p.m. Every time I have to change it. If it would use a default time of 9 a.m., many times that would work fine for me unless it is a specific meeting. How do I change the default time ical gives me?

The original post by Saluda Judy is almost exactly my question, except my issue -- which I believe is related to if not the same as the ical question -- is the default alarm time for TO DOs. When I create a 'to-do' in imail or directly in ical, and give that to-do a due date, then set an alarm for that to-do, the default time for the alarm is 11:45 pm the day before the due date. I would like to change the default time to something other than 11:45 pm the day before so that when I set an alarm for a new task, the alarm time is 8:00 am the day of, or whatever I decided to set my default to. I'm tired of having to change the alarm time for every to-do for which I create an alarm.
And to reiterate; I don't want to create an alarm time by default for each to-do. Rather, when I choose to create an alarm time for a to-do, I want the alarm time to default to my desired time (8:00 am, for instance).

Linking multiple emails to a single event in ical and/or to do's

Hi:
Often I receive emails and I want to link them to an event in ical. OS X does this just fine as long as there is date in the email that OS X can recognize. The problem is sometimes I get multiple emails relating to the same event and I would like to be able to link all of those emails to one single event in ical. My same questions applies to 'to do' items.
And a follow up question--say I receive an email that has no date explicit in the text-I've tried to find some function that would allow me to schedule a new event in ical and would link that email to it. (I hope that all makes sense) I'm open to whatever solution I'll even pay money for 3rd party software if anyone knows of a good program. But I"m looking to stick to the basic ical interface. Any suggestions?

Hi rtwigg,
seems this is one of visio graphics limitation regarding the external data.
visio graphics, may only support for one row.
you may consider this idea :
"It is a good idea to separate your rows into visual units so that you have everything you need and nothing else in a single row. To link a shape to a data row, simply drag the row from the external data window and drop it on the shape. A default data
graphic should immediately appear next to the shape displaying some data from the row. From here you are able to customize the graphic to fit your needs"
by means, you may need to use the visio client.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2010/02/05/no-code-mashups-with-visio-services-and-web-part-connections.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff408345.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394649.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2010/02/21/the-visio-services-javascript-mashup-api.aspx
Regards,
Aries
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Am I missing something? I really don't want one very cluttered master calendar for the school. Being able to turn on and off the various types of calendar will make it much easier to manage.

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I'm trying to set up the local school with a calendar for the sports schedule as well as a separate one for district events like school board meetings and would like to be able to add one for the holidays, exams and things of that nature. The sports calendar works but I can't figure out how to add the second caledar to iCal or my iPhone. It shows shared but doesn't appear as a possible delegate in iCal and will not load on the iPhone.
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