Creating a keyboard shortcut for Calendar's Export… doesn't work

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Creating a keyboard shortcut for Calendar's Export… doesn't work

I created a keyboard shortcut in Calendar to easily export calendars (let say option-ctrl-E).

When I launch Calendar the shortcut doesn't work. But after I opened the File Menu, then the Export sub-menu, the shortcut DO work as expected.

As I need this for an Applescript (there is still no Export… command in Calendar's dictionnary!), it's quite annoying.

Interestingly, I don't have the same problem when I create a shortcut for "Calendar Archive…".

I know I can of course use GUI scripting in AppleScript, but it's quite annoying.

Any idea?

p

OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Dec 24, 2013 9:05 AM

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Barney-15E

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Dec 24, 2013 9:27 AM in response to pdelges@crfmw

Does it continue to fail on a restart of the app?

I can offer a workaround:

If you need to automate creating a Calendar Archive, just copy all the .caldav, .calendar, and .group folders, allong with Attachments from ~/Library/Calendars/ into a folder called Calendar. Package it up in a folder with a .icbu file extension and add an info.plist file to that folder with the following information:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>date</key>
          <date>2013-03-07T01:08:00Z</date>
          <key>version</key>
          <string>2.0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Right-click on a Calendar archive and choose "Show package contents" and you'll see what I am describing.

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