Hi Stephen,
If the person who has made the switch straight to Leopard and hasn't
used iCal in Tiger to create Calendars, he shouldn't experience
problems.
It seems that Calendars created with an older Version of iCal before
upgrading to Leopard are not completely compatible with iCal 3.0,
Apple I'm sure will get this right eventually.
To integrate the old calendars successfully with alarms it is
necessary to backup and restore them.
Glenn, (if you feel like trying another tip), you could try backing up
your calendars and then restoring & refreshing them to see if your
alarms work correctly then.
In iCal application:
1. File and select Back up iCal...
2. Restart your computer
3. File and select Restore iCal...
Select the back up file that you just created
4. Create a test alarm (if your alarms work, end here. if not go to
next step)
5. For each calendar in your list go to Calendar and select Refresh
6. Check alarms again.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 11/12/2007, at 8:24 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:
Stephen,
I am an iCal user. Unfortunately iCal has taken several big steps
backward with Leopard.
I'm having a lot of trouble with alarms - they are inevitably wrong
(by 1 hr or 8 hrs) when they originate from an invitation from an
Outlook user. But they are reliable when I set them up myself. Not
everyone seems to have this problem, but I've tried to fix and can't
(even tried all Ronni's tips).
iCal won't let you change events that have come in from someone else
- very annoying if they are wrong, but even if they are right
sometimes you want a different title to display, but cannot amend at
all (just decline).
Its also a lot harder to edit events, many clicks just to get to the
fields.
All a bit of a shame, as iCal was great before Leopard. I'm
seriously looking at alternatives right now. Perhaps Google Calendar.
For someone just used to Outlook calendar (and who deals with
Outlook users), iCal will probably disappoint. I haven't been using
Entourage, not sure if the calendaring in that works properly (I
suspect the problems I am seeing are to do with timezones in
Leopard, not iCal specifically - doesn't really matter if iCal is
the app that presents the problem).
Glenn.
Begin forwarded message:
Hi folks,
I know someone who has made the switch from The Dark Side.
They have asked me some questions about iCal.
Apparently the Alarms seem unreliable.
They do not always notify when they should and the Snooze setup
rarely works.
Also there does not seem any way to set alarms for birthdays,
This is all a little disappointing as he needs some of these
facilities for work.
Does anyone have any comments or ideas re this, as I am not a user
of iCal ?
Regards,
Stephen Chape
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