No longer snooze times in mavericks calendar?

I think I have this figured out now after several runs through these discussions and other forums, but I want to make sure I'm correct in my understanding... can someone please confirm?
I used to rely heavily on ical alerts for things that didn't have finite deadlines, but rather some thing would extend for days or even weeks beyond their original date. I'm finding now with the new calendar app in mavericks/10.9.x that the snooze option only works for periods of time longer than a few minutes, when and only when, those lengths of time still fit in prior to the actual time of the event. is this the way it works, or just how I'm interpreting it?
I did find the reminders app still has the ability to snooze something for 1-2 hours or days, or even weeks, like ical used to.
do I need to move ALL my recurring events (such as tax payment reminders that come up 15-60 days in advance of when they're actually due) so that I have the ability to delay them for more than a few minutes?
to give you an idea of how I used it... I would set recurring events for quarterly tax payments to come up perhaps 15 days ahead of when I'd expect to prepare them, which might have been 30 days prior to them being due. now, when they come up in calendar app, they only give me the option to snooze them for a few minutes, not 2 hours, or a day, or a week as I used to depending on my work load and/or prep of documentation. beyond this, I also had several things that I reminded myself to do but weren't critical if not performed on or by that date. I used to push things one day at a time for weeks, and sometimes one week at a time for months. it appears that none of this is possible anymore?
am I correct in my understanding that calendar has severely limited its snooze options and reminders, a completely separate app, is the only way to bring some of the functionality back to my mac? I really do not want to move everything that doesn't have a finite due date over to another app. perhaps I'm better off jumping from 10.6 to 10.9 like I did last week. as I'm reading all the notes, it sounds like others had it worse over the previous versions of 10.7 and 10.8. I'm not looking forward to moving to busycal or something similar just because apple foolishly removed functionality that had been fine for years and years. is there any way to customize plist files or anything that would allow me to bring additional snooze options back to the 20+ calendars I have from the past dozen years or so working in osx?

whosails,
quite right! I agree, this was painfully difficult to find! and your solution is the correct one. it took me an age to figure that out!

Similar Messages

Travel time in Maverick Calendar - when away from home / office

Travel time is a nice feature but not working properly from my perspective. Some situations I can´t solve, perhaps anybody could help.
1) I am flying out of Sydney Airport at the morning to lets say Melbourne. Calender will calculate travel time from home to airport as it should be. My next appointment is in Melbourne. Need to calculate travel time from Melbourne Airport to that appointment, but can´t add Melbourne Airport as an adress.
2) When I am f.ex in Melbourne overnight I add an all day event with Hotel details (adress included). I need to calculate travel time from my Hotel to an appointment next morning. System is not offering the Hotel adress as an option.
Thanks for any ideas...

As a temporary workaround, of course, you can just turn Time Machine OFF.
There was a similar message, with reference to type "file" in the URL, but this one is differnent.
Have you ever used a 3rd-party utility, or followed any instructions to edit some files, to change Time Machine's default behavior?

I can no longer determine a calendar alert snooze time?

I'm very dependent on my calendar alerts and use them for recurring events like bill paying and unique events like meetings and doctor appointments. Up until OS 10.7 (Lion), when an alert popped up and I wanted to continue being alerted of that event, I could simply choose the snooze time (be it 5 minutes, an hour, a day or a week) and could continue to be re-reminded until I chose not to be.
Last week I upgraded to Mountain Lion so I could take maximum advantage of iCloud and my new iPhone 5. After much frustration and searching, it's apparent that the option of determining the snooze time in "Calendar", formerly known as "iCal" is simply no longer an option. Why remove a core feature of a core app? I'm stuck using the default snooze time as set in the calendar app, then, when the alert does pop up, I'm stuck with either dismissing it completely or hitting "snooze" only to be reminded every 15 or 20 minutes. This works okay for events with a short lag time, but in other cases (I will sometimes set up a bill payment reminder days before it's due so I have time to cover the due amount in my bank account) I'm stuck having either it pop up incessantly for days EVERY 20 minutes for DAYS or dismissing it, risking missing the payment due date.
I know from scanning these forums that a lot of other people are unhappy with the dumbed down functionality of this core app. I haven't been able to find an alternative to the app from any third-party. It sounds like both "busycal" and "fantastical" are dependent on Apple's calendar app so I don't know if they will solve the problem or not. I don't really wnat to spend money on a third party app just to get back a core function of an app I've been dependent on for years.
If anyone has found a good alternative to help get back this simple, but critical functionality, I'd love to know about it. Thanks!

I have also submitted feedback to Apple about this, as I think they have rendered Calendar all but useless by stripping out the ability to set sound cues, and to specify the lag time when hitting the "snooze" button. I completely agree, this is a serious and unprofessional messtep to remove a core function as though it were a trivial feature of the software. I've been a loyal Apple consumer for two decades, and this really makes me angry.
I am hopeful the wonderful people at Apple will restore this function with the next update to the OS.

Why am I experiencing long lag times after installing Mavericks?

I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks on my Mac Mini; Why am I experiencing long lag times?

Not enough free disk space can cause the lag times...
Click your Apple menu icon top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage. Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.
Do you have anti virus software, MacKeeper, and CleanMyMac installed?
Checked the disk lately?
Launch Disk Utility located in HD > Applications > Utillities
Select the startup disk on the left then select the First Aid tab.
Click: Verify Disk (not Verify Disk Permissions)
If DU reports errors, restart your Mac while holding down the Command + R keys. From there you should be able to access the built in utilities in OS X Recovery to repair the startup disk.
Make sure to back up all important files first before using OS X Recovery.

Since downloading Maverick I have a long hang time, computer crashes, can't use word and I can't access finder, why?

Since downloading Maverick I have a long hang time, computer crashes, can't use word and I can't access finder, why? Also, iTunes is horrible. While I'm listening to my music iTunes will just stop playing the song for at least 5 minutes and I can't force quit why does it do that? This is the first time I have ever felt like my iMac is just as bad as a PC and I wonder if Steve Jobs would have let the program be relase to the public with all the problems involved. No wonder Maverick was free. IT ***** BIG TIME!

Hello, vanvu.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Since you are experiencing this issue with both a wired and wireless connection only on your home network and not at other locations, this issue would related to your router. I would first recommend power cycling the router and testing the connection again. If the issue persists, try updating your routers settings per the article below.
iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4199
Cheers,
Jason H.

How can I change the snooze alert time for my calendar?

I have no idea what the default snooze time is as I have never seen where this is an option. It is annoying to get five snooze alerts for five different events with no way to modify when I want them. Is anyone looking at this?

No. You can't change it.

How do you turn off the displayed start time in individual calendar events? (Mavericks)

In iCal there was a preference option. It would seem that has gone away in Mavericks Calendar. Any work-arounds?

You could make them all day events, which will display as a banner.

Where has the free/busy option gone in Mavericks' Calendar?

I can't find this option anywhere in the Mac Mavericks Calendar info/edit pane of an event.
My calendar is synced from Mac Calendar to iPhone 4S with today's IOS 7.0.3 update.
The iPhone entries no longer show free or busy like they did before but they do still have the option available in the edit pane.
I'm hoping I'm just being a bit thick!
Revised: it's showing as there in the new Mavericks Blurb!
Message was edited by: Livebox

Thanks for the feedback, Bryan and Laurent.
Bearing in mind that I'm using a straightforward Mac to iPhone sync it's curious that it seems to show for the third-party set-ups and not the 100% Apple-shaped ones!
I've just run a little experiment:
1) opened a Mac Calendar event with a known 'show as: Busy' in TextEdit. The TRANSP field was correctly showing as OPAQUE.
2) refreshed iPhone Calendar and then changed the event to 'show as: Free'.
3) refreshed Mac Calendar and opened the event in TextEdit. The TRANSP field had correctly updated to TRANSPARENT.
This confirms to me that the information is there and properly recorded but, for whatever reason, the field is simply not showing in Calendar under Mac OS X 10.9 for me at this time.
Mavericks has a few annoyances that are nudging me to consider a move back to Mountain Lion.
I had already left feedback for Apple but I will also now file a bug report on the Developer's pages.

HT1296 I updated my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8. I can no longer sync my Contacts and Calendar between my iPhone and my computer.

I updatedmy PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8. I can no longer sync my Contacts and Calendar between my iPhone and my computer.

Windows 8 is not supported at this time.

How to see filename for Mavericks Calendar Open File alert?

How can you see the name / path of the file to be opened for a Mavericks Calendar Open File alert from the Calendar UI?
Before Mavericks, the file's name would be displayed in the item itself like this:
Now all I see is something more like this:
So I can longer see or verify exactly which file (if any) will be opened.

The external image URL in my previous post isn't displaying, so here's a copy of the old iCal Open File image:

How do I switch Travel Time in Mac Calendar from work to home?

I recently installed Mavericks and have been using the new Travel Time feature in Calendar. Today I ran into a problem, however. I scheduled an appointment and put in the location address. When I went to enter the travel time, it only gave me two options: walking from work and driving from work. There was no option for driving or walking from home. This has never been a problem before. What's going on here?

From Calendar Help:
Choose to see travel time from your starting location to the event’s location.
To set your starting location, Calendar first looks for your location in any events that are up to three hours before this event. If Calendar doesn’t find a location, it uses your work address during work hours and your home address during other hours. (Your work hours are set in Calendar preferences using the “Day starts at” and “Day ends at” menus.) If your card in Contacts doesn’t have your addresses, Calendar uses your computer’s current location.
Also:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23549295#23549295
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23521087#23521087

Long Sync times...... Solved!!!

Over the past 2 months I have been moving my nearly 4TB iTunes Library from Win 7 64bit to my brand new Mac Mini with Lion. Like many, I made the assumption that because iTunes was an Apple product it would run at its best on an Apple product. So far, the jury is still out on this one.
During the process of moving I discovered 2 bugs with iTunes. The first one was to do with consolidating an iTunes Library in an area greater than 4TB (I have reported this using the usual channels). The second one isn't quite so "rare" and may benefit others which is why I decided to open this thread.
In my house there are 3 Apple TV's (Gen 1), 2 iPod Touch's, 1 iPad and 4 iTunes users (with corresponding libraries of various sizes). In the center is what we laughlingly call our iTunes Server which now resides on a Mac Mini (2.7GHz 4G). It took many attempts to move our primary library from Windows to Mac (I will try to document all the problems on another occasion) but when I eventually got it working I noticed that sync times on any device attached to the Mac Mini library would take a minimum of 20 minutes no matter how small the sync should have been. In all cases the first 15 to 20 minutes consisted of the Mac Mini running at around 100% CPU without actually achieving much and then suddenly the CPU would reduce down to lower levels and the sync would complete as normal. Initially I thought iTunes was in a loop but eventually decided to let it run just to see what would happen....and sure enough it eventually completed normally.
Rather than go through all the different things that I tried to sort this out I will simply point out what I think is a bug in the Mac version of the product (it works OK in the Windows version). We have a family photo library with over 80000 photos in it. When syncing any device with photos from this library I used to select the root directory of the library and then simply select "selected folders" within that library inside the iTunes Photos Tab. This method had worked ok for us for at least 3 years in the old Windows environment. In the Mac environment however iTunes appears to need to cycle through the whole photo library EVERY TIME before it starts to actually sync. If instead I simply picked one folder with say 2000 photos in it, it would start syncing instantly without any delay. I can happily reproduce this problem whenever I want to.
So if you have long sync times ONE option is to check how you are accessing your photo library.

I'm experiencing this problem too. It goes through syncing Contacts, Calendars, etc. and then it say Syncing iPhone and hangs. CPU usage for iTunes goes from 7-10 to 103 and stays pegged. I have discovered that if I go to the "Advanced" section of the "Info" tab in iTunes and select "Replace information on this iPhone" that it will sync successfully, but only for that sync and the next sync will again hang. This trick seems to work whether I select all the "replace" options (Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, Notes, and Mail Accounts) or just one (I tried with just Notes selected).
I haven't tried the Restore option yet.

Clock won't keep time after Mavericks installation

My clock no longer keeps time properly after installation of Mavericks. This problem affects all of my iMacs immediately post-Mavericks, so it's not an issue with a bad battery.
The symptom is: The clock drifts by about a minute per day. Clicking the Date & Time applet in Settings immediately syncs the clock to the correct time. So the NTP servers are obviously working. It's just that Mavericks doesn't make use of them to set the system clock unless the Date & Time applet is clicked.
I followed the advise here and used the UI to set multiple time servers. I used the recommended string: 0.us.pool.ntp.org, 1.us.pool.ntp.org, 2.us.pool.ntp.org, 3.us.pool.ntp.org
After having made this change, instead of the clock losing thirty seconds per day, now it gains one minute per day.
As you can see from the log, it executes a few time syncs correctly and then just stops. The last sync was executed back on 1/17/14 at 4:40pm:
Apparently the problem can be solved if the user knows Unix and can actually recompile parts of the operating system. This is way beyond my level of expertise.
Bottom line: Apple's OS releases have gradually been getting worse and worse and Mavericks' quality is degraded to the point where even basic operations like keeping track of time are apparently now impossible without in depth Unix & compiler knowledge. This is pretty much the last straw for me and I'm reverting back to Windows and that horrible Metro interface (it's ugly and impractical but at least it can tell time). But I can't switch out all of my iMacs overnight. I have to deal with Mavericks for a while longer. Is there a workaround to get this wretched OS to tell time properly without having to deal with cryptic Unix commands and OS recompilations?

I didn't want to recompile ntp or start messing with system files that would end up getting overwritten on the next system update, so here's the solution I came up with.
I have a cron job running every 4 hours. In terminal, type
crontab -e
then, on the first line, type:
0 */4 * * * sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u time.apple.com
(make sure there is a carriage return at the end)
This will sync your clock to the apple time servers every 4 hours. I have my cron set up where it actually e-mails me, so I've been monitoring the output, and have been adjusting more than 1 second each time it runs, which means I've been losing 6 seconds per day with this bug. That's bad even for a cheap alarm clock from WalMart.

ICal won't let me change times of Google calendar event

I have been using iCal with Google Calendar for a long time, but suddenly, this morning, I am no longer able to edit times in my calendar events. If I create a new event, it gets default times, and I can edit it all I want, but when I save it and then view it again, the old times are there. I can edit the times accessing Google Calendar directly in a browser, and then the times of the event are updated in iCal when iCal re-syncs, but I can't actually make the edit through iCal.
Any thoughts? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks.

Greetings,
Questions:
What version of the Mac OS are you using (Apple > About this Mac)
If you go into a freshly created new user on your Mac and add your Google calendar to ical, does the same thing happen?
Cheers.

Has anyone else had problems with long wakeup times on Cinema displays?

We're having problems with long wakeup times on our Cinema Display. Noticed it after the Maverick update.
Need help please. This thing is nothing more than a boat anchor to my developers... frustrating, expensive boat anchor.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Jeff Stutzman

Hey Jeff,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are experiencing issues with an external display and your MacBook Air. The following resource may provide a solution:
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1573
While you should give all of the troubleshooting steps a whirl, definitely make sure to follow the steps in this section:
Reset the system
You can reset the Mac's parameter RAM and SMC.
Thanks,
Matt M.

No longer snooze times in mavericks calendar?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for