Old iCal alarms reappear after installing Snow Leopard

I have this problem as well. Worse, my events have stopped popping up alarms consistently, even new ones. I nearly didn't get my daughter from school on time thanks to that.

Until this is fixed, I think I'm going to have to steel myself to going back to Entourage. :/

I am having the same issue. This is horrible. Every repeat alarm that I have is popping up 3 to 30 times depending on the calendar event. I have on average 20 repeat calendar events a week. What in the world to do here????

Old birthdays popping up the same event, but for the previous year. My weekly reminder to login to Twitter for my company just pulled up every even that I've had scheduled since I set the repeat alarm up 4 months ago.

This is really ridiculous.

Let me know if anyone has a solution.

Need to stop switching to these new OS's upon launch.

+1 here... Hopefully apple will get 10.6.2 out soon since 10.6.1 didn't address this particular issue. Assuming 6.2 addresses it 8)
EDIT:
I forgot to add that the only workaround that i've found so far is to create a new event for the offending repeating alarm & find the first (original) event that's creating the 50 Skidillion repeats and DELETE it & all others. I'm sure this is totally obvious but i figured i would get it out there just in case.

Message was edited by: entropic23

+1

This just started happening for me too. It is quite annoying.

Here too. I just updated my home computer to 10.6 last weekend, and update my iPhone to 3.1 this morning. My work computer is still at 10.5.6. Today I see 2, 3, 4, sometimes more alarms for each event that had any alarm set at all.

Sorry for the intrusion. I'm new here. I've logged in, but can't find a link to post a new topic. I didn't have this problem on the iWorks forum. Suggestions?

Please disregard. It suddenly showed up when I went back to that page. It really wasn't there before!! Please, please, believe me!

Message was edited by: Lenny Bianchi

+1 - Same issue here!

+1

Anyone find a work-around? Maybe re-edit the event, but then you won't know til the next time, a month in my case.

I have deleted and re-entered events to no avail. THree snooze seems to be the magic number and it appears to create a 2nd alarm and tehn the alrms are not longer editable.

iCal endlessly repeats alerts for events in the past for me as well since updating to SL 10.6.1. I have a temporary fix to stop this really annoying behavior: I dragged iCal to the trash and deleted it 🙂 Be sure to make a backup first, so you can restore it if you choose to later by selecting it in the finder, right (or control)+click and select "Compress iCal.app". This creates iCal.app.zip and then trash the original one and like magic the annoyances will cease until Apple decides to fix this painfully annoying bug!
-DC

It turns out that deleting iCal does NOT make the repeating event alerts stop. I thought they would stop if I deleted iCal but... They are still popping up as soon as the computer starts and continue every 30 mins. I am trying what I read in a similar post: delete the iCal.plist files residing in /user/library/preferences folder. Will report back if this works.

+1 same thing here

+1 Everything else about Snow Leopard is great, but this is terrible.

Same problem here. MacBookPro, 10.6.1. Snoozing seems to be the culprit, see this other forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2163161&tstart=0

But, they haven't fixed it either.

Does anyone have this happening that is not using MobileMe? Does it have anything to do with the auto-sync in MobileMe prefs? Sorry, I don't have time to test, due to work situation.
-roccit