Thanks Byron... Ill give it a try and let you all know. I did indeed have a default alarm in iCal.
Is there a better way to set a default alarm? Should I be doing it in Google calendar? On Oct 2, 3:46 pm, Byron Shaheen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm guessing you all have a default alarm set in the iCal preferences > and when you sync the Google events back to iCal, you're getting the > Google alarm and the default iCal alarm which makes it look like > duplicates. You might want to disable the default alarm in iCal. > > Thanks, > > Byron > > On Oct 1, 4:39 pm, sigbjod <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I have had the same problem with double alarms in iCal. It seems to > > happen when I create an event in gcal and when it gets synchronized, > > the alarms turns up twice in iCal. One way to only have one > > notification is to turn off automatic alarms in gcal: choose a > > calender, click on calendar properties, select the messages tab and > > disable automatic alarms. To avoid all together unwanted alarms, I > > have found no other way than to delete them manually in iCal. > > > This leads me to what seems to be a bug: an event created in gcal > > automatically gets an alarm (10 minutes before, popup message) in > > iCal. Does anybody else have this problem? For your information, I'm > > using Mac OS X 10.6.1 with Spanning sync 3.0.2. > > > Sigbjørn > > > On 1 Okt, 22:30, IdeaMgr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks J. > > > > I'll wait to see if things just go away! > > > > (or if there's a FAQ on managing alarms) > > > > Cheers > > > -S > > > > On Oct 1, 7:43 am, Here in Ky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Dear S, > > > > > I had this happen a few days over the past, say, 10 but just shrugged > > > > it off and now it's gone. I actually don't fully understand how to > > > > control all the little reminders that Google Calendar and iCal want to > > > > send me and since it usually doesn't bug me, I'm fine. But just > > > > thought I would let you know that I, too, received some duplicates > > > > recently. > > > > > J > > > > > On Sep 30, 5:53 pm, IdeaMgr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Has anyone else noticed their pre-event alarms doubled on all their > > > > > events? > > > > > > Not sure what happened, or how to clean it up... > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > -S > > > > > > (lifetime member of the spanning sync fan club) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
