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calendar alerts don't have snooze

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro-13" (mid-2010) and although the notification center shows the alerts I set in Calendars (formerly iCal) once the alert fires - I cannot hit a SNOOZE time to have the alert reappear in 15 minutes or 2 hours or 1 day-- like I could the past 10 years with iCal.

Isn't there a way to be able to SNOOZE the alerts?

Thanks for any comments.

There really should be a way to postpone the alert or snooze the alert.

Thanks very much.

Best regards,

Steve

27 July 2012

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, Also a Mac SE running 6.0.4 - not upgrading that!

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 3:01 AM

75 replies

Jul 29, 2012 1:29 PM in response to Carlo TD

With Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.7 there was always a snooze delay with times of 1, 5, 15, 30 minutes; 1 & 2 hours and 1 day. Now with Mountain Lion there seems to be one single snooze: 15 minutes. Very sad - as for years I have been asking for "infinite snoozes" - i.e. being able to set a snooze delay (from 1 minute to 100 years!) or even a specific time (Tues 31 July 2012 at 11:15 am for example).

Now the only option seems to be to set an alert, then if one is at the computer when this triggers (or when one gets to the Mac) click to open and essentially re-create the event alarm trigger time. aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Giant leap backwards this 15 minute snooze!

Any workarounds? Other programs?

Thanks,

Steve -

Carlo TD

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Jul 29, 2012 1:36 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Well perhaps... that is in case one does not connect their device or computer to the servers. Sometime it takes time for information to be shuffled around.

Jul 29, 2012 3:05 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

The only one that I know of Stephen is BusyCal, but I am going to see if there are others out there.

Jul 29, 2012 3:31 PM in response to Richard Baskett

Thanks! I see there is a 30 day free trial with BusyCal so I'll test that ASAP.

Another related issue is how to get snoozing with iPad's Calendar app or BusyToDo or ???? Events created on the iPad with iPad Calendar app sync with Mac's Calendar program and BusyCal – I can snooze with BusyCal on the Mac; but not via BusyToDo or Calendars on the iPad. So if I'm on the iPad when an alarm goes off that I want to snooze… guess I have to get out my Mac and snooze from there!?!

All this seems to be a bit "Work in Progress"…

Appreciate all suggestions & comments.

Steve

Jul 29, 2012 9:46 PM in response to Stephen Schulte1

I switched to BusyCal at the Lion upgrade, and haven't looked back. It's very good and hopefully improving.

Jul 29, 2012 9:51 PM in response to Brian Purnell1

Wow, BusyCal looks vastly superior to iCal. If Apple doesn't fix the snooze issue in an update soon then I'll probably have to give BusyCal a shot as well.

Jul 30, 2012 2:52 AM in response to Brian Purnell1

Are there ever any specials on this program BusyCal? I think it is listed at nearly $50-which would be one of the more expensive programs that I have purchased outside of Microsoft office.

Not trying to be a cheapskate here at all just conscientious with regards to my budget.

Thanks very much.

Best regards,

Steve

30 July 2012

Carlo TD

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564 points

Jul 30, 2012 3:03 AM in response to nutkrakker

nutkrakker wrote:

Note sample event:

See notification:

If you click and hold the middle of the 3 buttons on the right, you will see a drop-down with options for snooze duration.

This is what it looks like in ML. Looks like a snoonze .

Jul 30, 2012 4:39 AM in response to Carlo TD

Carlo TD--

Yes, that is what it looks like in ML.

You said: "I have one computer with Mountain Lion, and one with Lion... how do I see this in Lion?"

Did you create a test event in Lion as outlined? Do you understand what the problem is?

Carlo TD

Level 3

564 points

Jul 30, 2012 4:45 AM in response to nutkrakker

Yes. It is slightly different. Before in Lion it read "alarms". In Mountain Lion it shows "alerts". But Mountain Lion does have a snooze button. The snooze button in Mountain Lion is automaticlly 10 min.

But Lion did have a little more wiggle room. But now.. it is more like a default of ten min.

Message was edited by: Carlo TD

Jul 30, 2012 5:08 AM in response to Carlo TD

Carlo,

The absence of this functionality is extremely significant for a lot of users, not simply "wiggle room":

For myself, and others (not just on this thread), the removal of this functionality makes iCal completely unusable.

Carlo TD

Level 3

564 points

Jul 30, 2012 5:17 AM in response to nutkrakker

I am not denying that. I agree. This is what it is in the current new event window... and the way it was, seems better (in Lion). And ML does not give a quick way to adjust this.

I do understand... sometimes those quick short cuts really are helpful... just like those special key combinations that copy, paste, or edit.

Jul 30, 2012 5:25 AM in response to Stephen Schulte1

I agree that this change to snooze is just awful! It has also done away with the former option of "Remind me 1 hour before event starts", which was very handy.

Jul 30, 2012 6:33 AM in response to Stephen Schulte1

Awful isn' it.

I've been using ML for a few months now and thought I was just going mad that it didn't offer any snooze options like previous versions of the OS.

To me just having a 10 mins snooze is plain rubbish. Sometimes I want to be reminded in a day, or in an hour.

Really hope 10.8.1 fixes this, or some third party add on can.

Aug 1, 2012 1:58 AM in response to Richard Baskett

Richard and others,

I am into my third day of the free 30 day trial of the program "BusyCal". This is an expensive program about $50 but to have the snooze times of from 1 minute to 100+days… OK there is no way to snooze to "1 hour before the event occurs" - but that's not so important because when the alarm goes off (let's say at noon today to remind me to do something at 2pm) then I can simply snooze the time interval I want for my next reminder! The way it should be!

Plus BusyCal is keeping Calendars updated; and my iOS 5.1 iPad 3 running Calendars is staying updated. (Of of course there is the issue that if an alarm goes off when I'm working on my iPad and not my Mac, I cannot of course use the BusyCalc snooze feature). And the program BusyToDo does not have snooze features - this is needed!!!!!!! iOS doesn't seem to have this - Wunderlist can't snooze - just post into the notification center.

More comments appreciated -- but I think BusyCal is the solution for now!

Steve

calendar alerts don't have snooze