How to auto-refresh delegates?

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How to auto-refresh delegates?

Obviously, iCal is not able to automatically refresh delegated calendars. This is bad enough. However, I can not find a solution that would solve this. The best I have is an AppleScript to 'simulate' Cmd-R every now-and-then:

tell application "iCal" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell process "iCal"

keystroke "r" using {command down, shift down}

end tell

This of course brings iCal to the foreground whenever the script is run. As I want to run this script about every mintues, this would completely destroy my workflow!

- Is there a better option to get iCal to refresh delegated calendars than this script?

- If not, does anyone know how to execute this script such as iCal is NOT brought to foreground (and I can keep writing text in Pages for example withouth explicitly noticing the udpate?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Aug 9, 2011 11:18 AM

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AJ 2010

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Aug 14, 2011 8:00 AM in response to phibo

I'm having the same problem although it looks like you're not on 10.7. I have quite a few delegates and if they modify or remove their appointments it never updates on my end. The only fix is to select their calendar and manually force it to update from the server. Have you contacted Apple about this yet to see if this is a bug or god forbid a "feature" of the new iCal. I have to think that it will be addressed in the next 10.7 update but I'm not sure they consider this a bug at this point.

I'll be contacting support tomorrow and if you havn't already done so then you should do the same.

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Aug 15, 2011 11:42 AM in response to AJ 2010

Hey AJ,

no I did not contact Appel Support. Seems that this is more a feature than a bug. Found many users having the same issue when searching the net. I'm looking for the best workaround, fix for this issue.

Did you contact Apple?

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Sep 30, 2011 11:05 AM in response to phibo

This is a pretty useless feature if its a feature - you obviously want to just glance at your delegates availability before booking a meeting - you don't want to have to go round refreshing three or four calendars something I would be bound to forget to do.

Delegates should just inherit the refresh schedule of the parent account.

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