ICal Event alarms

1 day ahead alarms for Events (birthdays, whole day events) sound at 12:01 A.M. How can I control the time at which the alarm sounds?

How can I change the default alarm for the birthdays, whole day events. I like it at 9 am on the same day? This midight is not the best. I have to many birthday to change......

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  • ICal event alarms aren't loud enough (and not long enough)...

    I'm going to be getting my first smartphone very soon and am trying to decide which to get. I have an iMac, so I heavily favor the iPhone. But, I've run into a potential problem with Events in iCal:
    I want to get an iPhone, use iCal for my schedule, and use MobileMe to keep everything synced. Until now, I've only used the calendar features in regular phones. I've been testing iCal on my Mac, and it clearly will be easier to program events into it.
    My problem is iCal's audible alarm. I've been testing it by having it sound on my iMac (since I don't yet have an iPhone), and it seems you can only have a brief audible alarm sound (for instance, the "Glass" or "Basso" sound option with the "Message with Sound" option). I'm used to the calendars on regular cell phones, which have a loud alarm that repeats (like a cell phone ringer). Is there something I can do in iCal to make its alarm louder and repetitive on an iPhone?
    I have a friend who has a droid phone and used the Google calendar. He says there is a setting on his phone (separate from the settings in Google's calendar) that lets him choose any ringer or .mp3 as the audible alarm for alerts from the Google calendar.
    If I can't get a loud, repetitive alarm to sound on my iPhone with my iCal events, then it's really not going to work for me. The alarm will be going off on my iPhone and I will never hear it.
    I know this question may be basic, but I really, really need an answer before I proceed (and I can't find the answer online). Thank you!

    That is very surprising. Short of someone being able to recommend an app or other work around for this, the lack of such an audible alarm will rule the iPhone out for me. And I've waited a very long time for it to come to my carrier, so that is very disappointing.
    It's really shocking to me that the designers wouldn't have started out by saying we need to have this smartphone incorporate every standard feature of previous regular phones. I had really not even thought that this could be a problem. I just stumbled on it and am astonished at the lack of a user ability to customize the alarm feature to a suitable sound.

  • Certain iCal Event Alarms Not Working on iPhone

    I have certain calendar event reminders that are not issuing on the iPhone (3GS, latest iOS 4.3.5) after syncing from iCal on the desktop with a CalDAV calendar running on Mac OS X 10.6 Server.
    Most appointments do issue alerts properly, but I've noticed ones that have some or all of the following attributes are a problem:
    1 - recurring on alternating weeks
    2 - alarm set for day before the event (e.g. 7pm the night before or "5 hours before all-day event" as calendar sees it)
    3 - alarms that do not conform to the short list of pre-set iPhone calendar alarms (5 min, 10 min, 15 min,... 2 hours before, 12 hours before)
    I have a feeling it's #3 or a combination of all. I've tried deleting and re-adding the calendar on the iPhone. I've also verified that the time zones match between phone and desktop iCal. In my case, the alarm never happens for these specific events, not that it happens much later or something.
    Anyone experience this issue?
    Thanks

    why so many views of this question and nobody had replied with an answer?

  • Do ical-event alarms work in nano ?

    Hello guys!
    I am thinking about buying a nano and i have a question regarding ical sync and specifically alarms.
    If you set up an event in ical that has also an alarm (e.g. Message with sound 1 day before), will this alarm work in ipod nano?
    Will the nano make a sound from its internal speaker for this event?
    Thanks in advance.

    Yes it will. The noise it makes is substantially louder than the sound the Mini makes but it's still not loud enough to hear it if it's in a case in your pocket.

  • How do I set the default event alarm to email in iCal 3.0?

    Anyone know? The default event alarm (an alert with a noise) in iCal 3.0 doesn't do me the slightest bit of good if I'm not sitting at my computer, which I'm often not.
    I'd like all new events to have a default alarm of "Email" so I get email reminders without having to edit every single new event I create. Frankly I'm amazed this isn't a simple Preference option

    Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. I have scoured the internet looking for exactly the same answer! I've asked everyone at my office (all mac users) and no one knows (but I got several "Yeah, that's annoying - let me know when you figure it out). I, too, can't believe it's not a simple preference in iCal. Someone PLEASE answer this incredibly basic question because there are obviously more than a few of us hung up on this. Thanks!

  • ICal event reminder bug causes alarm to be repeated every hour

    Hi,
    I'm running 10.7.3 on an iMac.
    In the last fortnight (nothing with the OS or settings has been changed) the iCal event reminders incorrectly trigger every hour for the same event. This is occuring for every event reminder, even if the settings are for a single alarm or email the day before. To make things worse I've had to delete the events with one-off email notifications as my inbox was getting full!
    The events themselves are not duplicated, and the alarms not set to be recurring.
    I have an icloud calendar, two exchange calendars, and two calendars all being sync'd between my iMac, two macbook pro's, and iPhone and iPad. Have had these all set for ages with no problems.
    I've called apple support enough times in the past to have already checked the system privilages but unfortunately this has not resolved the problem.
    I would turn off all the event alarms but a few of the calendars are shared across different sites and keep us all on the same page (occasionally also the events have been created by others).
    Suggestions would be much appreciated
    Isaac

    Totally missed it, duh! Thanks. Will try again.
    sig:
    iCal forum:
    http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=166

  • Automator Ical new events - Alarms type are wrong

    I've set an automator flow to create an event.
    Even with the "message only" alarm type (not" message with sound"), Ical created an event with a message with sound alarm.
    I've tried to uncheck the default alarm box in Ical and tried again, impossible to make it.
    Any idea ? thanks. It's really anoying, as when I sync with outlook at my office (through mobileme), if an alarm was set as message + sound in Ical, it results in no alarm at all in outlook 2007...
    Message was edited by: Gilles

    I'm not sure if this is exactly the same, but DZ-Jay and I seem to have the same problem. I too have a number of email addresses on my Home Card in Address Book.
    When setting an iCal email alarm, it always selected the wrong address from that list and I had, every time, to change it through the pulldown list.
    Reading the above made me think (a rare event as my nearest and dearest will be quick to testify) and I realised that the address it selected was the one at the top of the list on My card in Address Book.
    Address Book also lists Work before Home email designated addresses which, DZ, is why it always sends to your "Work" email. Whilst in effect it does, it actually sends to the top address in the list which for you is a Work address.
    I changed the order so that the address I always wanted to use for iCal alarms was top of the list (I had to designate it as a Home address - fortunately it was then by chance alphabetically superior as well), closed Address Book - and lo and behold the "correct" address then appeared in my alarm setting.
    No reboot required, so in my case it looks as if iCal took the first address on My Card at the time an event or To Do item was added.
    That's enough brain work for a while - I'm off to a darkened room to have a lie down!
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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?
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    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"
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    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:
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    The other option is to use the 'quoted form of' a string. 'Quoted form' takes a string and makes it shell-safe:
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    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.

  • New to iCal:  Audible alarms in iCal are not loud enough...

    I'm getting a Verizon iPhone and will then use MobileMe to keep everything synced. Until now, I've only used the calendar features in regular phones (I've never had a smartphone). I've fumbled around with iCal some on my Mac, and it clearly will be easier to program events on it, and it has many customization features.
    But, the problem is: I've been testing the alarm in iCal (by having it sound on my iMac since I don't yet have an iPhone), and it seems you can only have a brief audible alarm sound (for instance, the "Glass" or "Basso" sound option with the "Message with Sound" option). I'm used to the calendars on regular cell phones, which, while they aren't as customizable as the iCal events, do at least have a loud alarm that repeats much like a cell phone ringer. Is there something I can do in iCal to make its alarm louder and repetitive?
    If I can't get a loud, repetitive alarm to sound with my iCal events, then it's really not going to work for me. The alarm will be going off on my iPhone and I will never hear it.

    The plot thickens ...
    I just fixed my iCal sync problem with .Mac by refreshing .Mac with the data from my iMac and then syncing it to my iBook. Well, it finally worked, but surprise surprise, a few posts from my mobile/cell T610 appeared in the iBooks iCal, although they aren't in the iMac's iCal. So it seems like the events I have created on the T610 do transfer to the iMac -- it's just that they don't display in iCal. Or rather, in the syncing computer's iCal ...
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  • How do I stop mail from automatically opening when iCal events begin?

    How do I stop mail from automatically opening when iCal events begin?
    When an event is about to begin, the mail app opens and I'd like to turn that off since I don't use the mail app.
    Thanks!

    Hi
    This may have something to do with the "Automatically retrieve invitations from Mail" option being enabled? Click on the iCal Menu > Preferences > Advanced. It may also be the Alarms setting? This is for 10.6 iCal so it may be in a different place for 10.5?
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  • Why are my iCal events (future events) just dissapearing?

    Not using iCloud or mobile me.  I am syncing my iPhone via iTunes. 
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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.
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    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
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    TIA
    Message was edited by: Stephen Bunker

    Here is some sample code.
    -- Code starts here --
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    You may have to edit the code, as per the delimiters you use / set within 'System Preferences' 'International's 'Formats' 'Dates' and 'Times' configuration panels.

  • Applescript Event Alarm Timeout Problem

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    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?
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