I use the custom "open file" alert feature everyday to play music at a certain time. It worked perfectly until I updated to Mavericks last night. The select file dialog box opens when I click on "open file" but the file goes back to "Calendar" rather than the playlist file I select. And for the alert Calendar opens rather than playing the music. It's quite annoying! Is this a bug? Any way to fix it?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
It seems very buggy. I can't get the file chooser to open more than one time without restarting the Calendar app. It would be nice it they'd make this do what it says it does or take it away.
Upgraded to mavericks today and, as you say, the open file feature no longer works! Cannot find a solution yet ( was working fine in mountain lion)!
As physicsryan says it won't let me search a file after the first attempt. BUGGY!!!
It is months now since this was flagged as a problem so why is nothing done. It still doesn’t work on Mavericks. So many bugs with this Free "upgrade" im wishing I hadnt upgraded! OS is getting to be like windows used to be - boasting about features that either dont work or sometimes work. This is one feature that simply doesn’t work. It should be disabled in the "upgraded" OS to save us all frustration. As a work around I have added Mornings alarms which works as claimed and does reliably open audio files including ones you can custom create to remind you to do something important! It still anoys me though that ical has not proper alarm option that you have to acknowledge for it to stop just a pissy little noise for a fraction of a second that is so easy to miss. It basically means ical is not a reliable reminder system.
Same problem here. Trying to set Open File alarms is incredibly buggy, and even if you do successfully set one, and even if it does happen to work once or twice on a repeating event, don't trust it, because the joy won't continue. I used to run my life by iCal, but since upgrading to Mavericks, it's been nothing but grief and aggravation. I'd like to migrate to Google, but, hello? Privacy issues.
If I'd known that a free "upgrade" was going to break something so fundamental as a formerly useful calendar, I'd have give that particular freebie a pass.
And while we're on the topic of inadvertantly having downgraded our applications, Apple, take note: you should not helpfully make our alert notifications disappear after a nanosecond. Additionally, you should hasten to allow US the ability to decide how long to snooze an event, or even reschedule an event from within the alert window. A generic and unmanageable "Snooze" for an alert is just annoying. (I missed the snoozed alert for "Plug Grandma's life support back in," while I was in the bathroom and you can imagine the consequences. Okay, not really, but just sayin' -- get your effing house in order and make sure you don't break important basic apps with upgrades. Oh, and also, please FIX THIS!)
I have the same issue. Does anybody have a work-around for this? Can Automator perform this type of feature?
OK guys- here's the problem. If you have iCloud Calendar turned on it means you want whatever file to open when you trigger it with an alert to happen on all your iCloud devices. It can't do that, so it won't (can't) hold the alert. You have to go to System Preferences>iCloud and uncheck Calendars. Then create a local calendar and try your alert again.
I was too hasty in my previous reply- let me clarify.
You can still leave "Calendars" checked in iCloud System Preferences- in fact if you share a calendar with any other device this needs to be checked. But if you want to use alerts to trigger opening a file or application (like an Automator app) on your laptop it has to be on a non-iCloud calendar. You have to create a local calendar "On My Mac" called "My scripted events," or something like that.
For example, I want to set a date and time to open an Automator app I created called "Launch Slideshow." If I try to add an alert to open that file on an iCloud calendar, iCloud wants to open the file "Launch Slideshow" on my phone, my iPad, and everything that accesses that calendar in the cloud. This is impossible, even if I in fact have the file "Launch Slideshow" on the other devices because the path name is ultimately different. So calendar can''t hold the alert. Scripted events in Calendar have to be on a non-cloud calendar.
Clear as mud?
It's not necessary to disable iCloud calendar syncing. Instead, you can right-click in the empty space below the list of calendars in Calendar and choose New Calendar. This will create a new calendar "On My Mac."
iCal "open file" alert doesn't work on Mavericks!
