10.6.4 oddity with iCal alarms

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Bruce Horrocks - 23 Jun 2010 00:51 GMT

Since upgrading to 10.6.4, setting an alarm for an event in iCal gives
the options as:

Display message 20175 minutes before
Play sound "Basso" 60663 seconds after
...

and other odd combinations of minutes and seconds rather than hours and
days as before.

Is anyone else seeing this or have I managed to screw-up something
elsewhere and it is just fluke that I've only noticed it since 10.6.4?

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Elliott Roper - 23 Jun 2010 01:49 GMT

> Since upgrading to 10.6.4, setting an alarm for an event in iCal gives
> the options as:
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Is anyone else seeing this or have I managed to screw-up something
> elsewhere and it is just fluke that I've only noticed it since 10.6.4?

Me too. Likewise have not noticed it before.

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Chris Ridd - 23 Jun 2010 06:11 GMT

> Since upgrading to 10.6.4, setting an alarm for an event in iCal gives
> the options as:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> and other odd combinations of minutes and seconds rather than hours and
> days as before.

Nope, I just tried with a Google calendar and got offered the usual 15
minute etc options, and also with a local calendar.

> Is anyone else seeing this or have I managed to screw-up something
> elsewhere and it is just fluke that I've only noticed it since 10.6.4?

There are some alarm durations in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist:

    <key>PersistentMenu-lastUsedAlarms</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>AlarmDurationKey</key>
            <integer>-54000</integer>
            <key>AlarmTypeKey</key>
            <integer>2</integer>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>AlarmDurationKey</key>
            <integer>-900</integer>
            <key>AlarmTypeKey</key>
            <integer>2</integer>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>AlarmDurationKey</key>
            <integer>-1800</integer>
            <key>AlarmParameterKey</key>
            <string>Blow</string>
            <key>AlarmTypeKey</key>
            <integer>3</integer>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>AlarmDurationKey</key>
            <integer>-1500</integer>
            <key>AlarmParameterKey</key>
            <string>Glass</string>
            <key>AlarmTypeKey</key>
            <integer>3</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>

Maybe those are mangled on your machine?

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Elliott Roper - 23 Jun 2010 10:30 GMT

> There are some alarm durations in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist:

<snip>

> Maybe those are mangled on your machine?

Yep. Mine were mangled. I set them back to sane with the plist editor.
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Jim - 23 Jun 2010 07:10 GMT

> Is anyone else seeing this or have I managed to screw-up something
> elsewhere and it is just fluke that I've only noticed it since 10.6.4?

Nope, just got the usual 15mins, 5mins etc.

Jim

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D.M. Procida - 23 Jun 2010 09:21 GMT

> Is anyone else seeing this or have I managed to screw-up something
> elsewhere and it is just fluke that I've only noticed it since 10.6.4?

The same thing has happened here (and it's new).

iCal also forgot its passwords for a remote server, on two different
machines.

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Bruce Horrocks - 23 Jun 2010 15:35 GMT

>> Is anyone else seeing this or have I managed to screw-up something
>> elsewhere and it is just fluke that I've only noticed it since 10.6.4?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> iCal also forgot its passwords for a remote server, on two different
> machines.

Thanks all for the replies. I've just zapped the iCal plists and started
again.

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Bruce Horrocks - 23 Jun 2010 19:35 GMT

> Thanks all for the replies. I've just zapped the iCal plists and started
> again.

I forgot to add - this is the first problem I've needed to fix in 10
months of owning this machine. I might have to start thinking about
switching to Windows if this kind of unreliability carries on.

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