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Calendar alarms are no longer supported?

My previous scripts are simply not running and there doesn't seem to be an option to add one to an event any more! Automator still has the option to create calendar alarms and my scripts still exist, but the feature seems to have been dropped from "the-app-formally-known-as-iCal" altogether! Am I missing it? The new ascetics of the app are nice and I generally have no other complaints about Mavericks, but I have entire workflows dependent on this!!! Help???

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 11:17 AM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2013 11:57 AM

Hi, I thought all was lost too, but everything still seems to be there, you just have to dig a little deeper into the Calendar menu.


You can still trigger an automator workflow by saving the automator as an application, or file, then in alarms in Calendar click on"Alert" and another menu will appear that allows you to "open file".


Trust that helps.


I'm sure there is a more elgant way but I'm no expert at automator I'm afraid.

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Feb 7, 2014 2:03 PM in response to dwboston

When I go into System Preferences -> .... -> Accessibility, the window to the right has nothing in it.

I have a LOT of alarms.


I have two problems: One is that after I upgraded to Mavericks, I need to reconnect the alerts to the applescript or automator apps. That is fine when it works, but usually clicking on "other" only works about twice to allow me to select the file. After that, nothing happens.


The other problem that I *thinkg* I found a work around for: that even after linking the app back to the alert, the app (script) still not running, is that it seems I need to "prime" it first. So I need to run the app from the finder, then reattach it to the alert.


The other problem is that when I do that, it causes the alert to run right then.

But at least it does seem to work from that time forward.

Except sometimes these things just seem to run whenever they feel like it. That is pretty undesireable as well.

My Calendar is really really messed up under Mavericks. And I use the calendar to run EVERYTHING that I have this Mac doing. Oh yeah, it is a server, too, so restarting it a bazillion times is not that great. 😟

Feb 28, 2014 10:47 AM in response to DavidDot Productions

for the past five OS updates, I've had to recreate all of the automator calendar alms I have but opening them and restating them. I have about 50 and find this to be a giant pain. I feel like there I some obvious thing here we are missing so that we don't have to do this...OR it's a tremendous oversight that someone at Apple should have caught by now.

Jul 16, 2014 1:09 PM in response to DavidDot Productions

By removing support for the Calendar Alerts launching other files, Apple has made programing automatic events impossible to do on in the Mac, OSX operating system environment. Microsoft Windows has allowed TASK SCHEDULER to automate events for over 20 years and the approach is complex, but at least it works. It is like Apple has taken us back to the 1984 commercial about that framed IBM as the Controlling BAD GUYS, but in this case, Apple is now the Control Freaks, and they are expecting us to walk in lock step to their Reich.


WAKE UP APPLE!!


PS: Dropping support for Apple Scripts and trying to replace it with the LOUSIEST programing environment ever, I.E. Automator is the worst blunder Apple has ever made!

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