Change default Calendar alert and time

Oct 12, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

You can change the default calendar event sound and all day event time. These settings are stored as part of each individual calendar.

Locate and open in TextEdit:
~/Library/Calendars/UUID.calendar/LocalDefaultAlarms/EventAllDayAlarms.icsalarm ~/Library/Calendars/UUID.calendar/LocalDefaultAlarms/EventTimedAlarms.icsalarm

The default all day event time can be changed to 6 am, for example, instead of 9 am:
TRIGGER:PT6H

You can change the default event time to values not available in the preferences. This can be a positive or negative value, for instance 3 hours before:
TRIGGER:-PT3H

The alert sound can be specified (without a file extension) using anything in your user or system sound folder:
ATTACH;VALUE=URI:Basso

Comments (7)


Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120912185842897