[HM] Fwd: [HM] Re: reminder or to do utility

[Barry Lyden]

Sorry to hear about the flu. After your comments, I decided to do a 
little research. I have come to the conclusion that we're both correct 
(although you're probably more correct - my apologies). Here's what I 
did: I set up calendar events for a few minutes to an hour or so in the 
future, and some for the following morning. I shut down the mac 
completely, restarted it, and waited. I have iCal set to start up in 
the background at login. Interestingly, the events that were in the 
immediate future, within the next few minutes to an hour, did not set 
off  their alarms once the machine was booted and the prescribed time 
came and went. So I put me and the mac to sleep for the night, woke up 
this morning, and sure enough, the alarms I had set to go off the next 
day (today) worked. I had not noticed this phenomenon before since I 
only use iCal at home for personal events.

I searched Apple's support knowledge base, and guess what I found? 
There's an article that describes this very condition. Check it out at: 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25655
This is a bug in my opinion.

For what it's worth, I used to use Entourage and I don't remember this 
happening. Maybe that's something for you to consider?

HTH,
Barry


On Jan 9, 2004, at 7:37 PM, stuart weisberg wrote:

> ---- Begin Included Message ----
> Sorry I haven't responded sooner.... in bed with the Flu. I have used 
> ICal and when ever I
> shut down the Computer, any scheduled alarm has been lost regardless 
> of the time the
> alarm was scheduled to run. If your experience is different please let 
> me know how you
> set it up. On my old 6360 I had Touch & Date Book Pro and that alarm 
> worked as you
> described. I also called Apple Tech support and they confirmed that I 
> was correct. You
> can not shut the computer down with ICal other wise the alarms are 
> lost. I also went to
> the Apple website and under Ical suggested they add that feature.
>
> From: Barry Lyden <blyden at mac.com>
> Sent: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:19:12 -0600
> To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [HM] Re: reminder or to do utility
>
>
> Hmmm, I'm not exactly sure what you meant by your statement. Yes, it's
> true, notifications can only be sent when iCal is running. If you turn
> off your computer or put it to sleep, no notifications will be sent
> until you start it (and iCal) or wake it up. This is true of all
> calendaring programs that I know of. But once iCal is running,
> scheduled alarms will send their notifications. Once you schedule them,
> they won't be wiped out by turning off your machine.
>
> HTH,
> Barry
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2004, at 4:09 PM, stuart weisberg wrote:
>
>> My understanding of ICal is that in order for it to work (the alarm
>> notification) you can
>> not turn your computer off. That wipes out any scheduled alarms.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Stu
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