How do I tell iCal which email address to use in Address Book?

mackedout,

Quit iCal, and delete all your personal cards in Address Book. Then create a new personal card and designate it "My Card," by using Address Book>Card>Make This My Card.

Quit Address Book, and see if that helps your iCal problem.

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Glad to hear that procedure helped.

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FYI - no need to trash your card and create a new one - just go to your card in the address book, and then Card>Make This My Card. You can then set alarms in iCal with no problem.

If I have 9 email addresses for myself in my address card (don't even go there), how do I pick which one iCal uses for invitations. It recently switched from one work email address to an address that I don't want it to use. I don't know how it switched, when it switched, or why, but I want it to go back to using the original email address...

Thanks!

Steve

Steve,

I have the same problem. Like you, I still haven't found a solution; but if it helps, I discovered empirically that iCal wants to pick the top address in the "Me" contact card.

The biggest problem I see is that there doesn't seem to be a way to sort the e-mail addresses in the card, and for some reason AddressBook wants to always put the "work" addresses first! I tried deleting all addresses and entering them in a different order, but when I re-open AddressBook the stupid "work" address is at the top again, and iCal wants to use it.

-dZ.

Hi Guys,

Been dealing with a similar issue for about 3 years now, so I know your pain. Apple will not solve this problem because they're a stickler for standards, no matter what the rest of the world really needs. Since I'm a developer at heart, I decided to tackle the problem on my own and built a software product called Zamain for Mac to support sending Apple iCal invitations from multiple Apple Mail email accounts. It also resolves common Apple iCal to Microsoft Outlook/Exchange problems. I originally built the product for myself, but soon realized that this can help others as well.

Although I know that this is a shameless plug for my product, I urge you to give it a try because it will really make your life easier. I have been using it every day for past 6 months and I can tell you that it saved me a lot of grief.

You can get Zamain for Mac at www.zamain.com.

Thanks!

-Jon

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