Problem with an attachment in iCal

Question

Hello,
So, I set my iCal to wake me up every morning and I attached a text file to it. I double click the text file from inside iCal every morning to add stuff to it, instead of going to the actual folder the file is in and opening it from there.
I've done this for a couple of days now, and I just went to open the file from its folder and none of the text I added for the last couple of days is there. Now, when I open the file from inside iCal, the newest revisions are there.
What's going on? I only show one file with this name on my computer, yet two different versions exist.
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Answer 1

The iCal actions won't use variables for their dates, but you can use a Run AppleScript action to change the event dates to your liking. The following AppleScript action will change the start and end dates to 2 weeks from the current date (other event properties are left as-is) - just add it to your Automator workflow after getting or creating the event(s) you need moved to the future:
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on run {input, parameters}
set an event to a future date
input: a list of iCal events to change start/end dates
output: a list of iCal events that were changed
set output to {}
set FutureDate to (current date) + (2 * weeks)
repeat with AnItem in the input
set AnItem to contents of AnItem
tell application "iCal"
if class of AnItem is event then -- just handle events
set start date of AnItem to FutureDate
set end date of AnItem to FutureDate
set the end of the output to AnItem -- success
end if
end tell
end repeat
return the output -- pass the result(s) to the next action
end run
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