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Calendar Alerts Run Twice - At the beginning and end of every calendar event

This issue was reported before under the same title for Big Sur. There was no resolution. The situation seems however partially resolved under Monterey 12.4 , but still seen under some circumstances.

Specifically, in my case I have two scheduled events both running the same Automator generated App. One at 7.10 am and another at 1:00 pm. The app logs the time it was executed.


The morning event executes once as defined, the evening event executes at the prescribed time and then again some 20 minutes later.


So they still have the problem. This is calendar independent and rebooting does not resolve it. Apple fix it please.

iMac 27″, macOS 12.4

Posted on Jul 22, 2022 12:28 AM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2022 2:18 AM

You are not talking to Apple, we are users like yourself. This is a user forum.


You can let Apple know by using the feedback page: https://ww.apple.com/feedback


Can you tell us more about this issue? Anything that may help us try to reproduce it?

Any particular application that your script calls?

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Jul 23, 2022 4:14 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Will do a feedback because this functionality is definitely seriously broken. In the meantime to recreate the bug:


1/ in Automator generate an App containing just one action "Run Apple Script" where the script contains:


set CurrentDate to (date string of (current date))

set CurrentTime to (time string of (current date))

set atab to " "

set f to "~/Documents/Stamp.log"

set lineToAppend to CurrentDate & (quoted form of atab) & CurrentTime

do shell script "echo " & atab & lineToAppend & " >> " & f


2/ Save that App somewhere and call it "Stamp"".


3/ in Calendar generate an Event to start tomorrow sometimes in the morning say 7 am with an alert "Open a file at time of event" and select an App from the previous step as a file to open. Set the event to repeat every day.


4/ duplicate that event and change its start to the same day but say 1 pm. Set to repeat every day. You should have now two new events repeating everyday at 7am and 1pm.



5/ the next day the system will request to grant the app "Stamp" access to your Documents folder. Grant it.


6/ sometimes after 3pm that day go and open the log file called Stamp.log in your Documents folder.

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Here is what I see in the log, original as scheduled executions each followed by another one some 20 minutes later.


Saturday, July 23, 2022 7:00:01 AM

Saturday, July 23, 2022 7:23:03 AM

Saturday, July 23, 2022 1:00:00 PM

Saturday, July 23, 2022 1:21:43 PM


Apple FIX IT PLEASE.

Jul 25, 2022 8:01 AM in response to jerzy34

Unfortuntely the problem IS NOT SOLVED. The issue persist/ Just follow instructions in my second post on how to recreate it. Will be reporting it to Apple with little hope they will do anything, They have not done anything since Big Sur the first time the issue (Calendar events alerting twice) was reported.

Calendar Alerts Run Twice - At the beginning and end of every calendar event

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