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Make iCal alarms work automatically after reboot/logout
Authored by: eilers on Nov 13, '03 07:46:48AM

Strange.. I think my iCal Helper.app crashes after starting.
This might be the reason why I never get any reminders.. ever..

See this.. Anyone an idea ?

stefan:/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Resources/iCal Helper.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./iCal\ Helper
2003-11-13 13:40:07.855 iCal Helper[14130] *** -[NSCFString setTimeZone:]: selector not recognized
2003-11-13 13:40:07.857 iCal Helper[14130] An uncaught exception was raised
2003-11-13 13:40:07.858 iCal Helper[14130] *** -[NSCFString setTimeZone:]: selector not recognized
2003-11-13 13:40:07.859 iCal Helper[14130] *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSCFString setTimeZone:]: selector not recognized
Trace/BPT trap



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Make iCal alarms work automatically after reboot/logout
Authored by: hidingout on Jan 29, '04 05:12:06PM

oddly I have the same problem & the same result in the console.log
Has anybody figured this out ?

Thanks in advance for any info .



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A fix for iCal alarms not working and iCalHelper crash
Authored by: seamus on Sep 02, '05 01:10:40PM

I've had this very same problem for quite some time now on my dual G5 at work running 10.3. After many hours of trouble shooting, I determined that it was user specific (Alarms worked fine on a test user).

I ended up deleting my calendars (after backing up of course), and sure enough the alarms worked again with new calendars. When I copied my backups back into iCal, I received a message saying that some of the alarms may be corrupt and asked if I wanted to delete them. Even though I clicked OK, iCalhelper was still crashing.

I finally solved it by opening iCal's preferences and set it to delete everything that was more than sixty days old. Apparently what ever was corrupting it was more than sixty days old.

So, What caused the problem? I'm not sure but I do use iSynCal to sync my calendars from my work machine to my personal laptop and it may have been caused by a bad sync. I also sync my Palm to my laptop, and it may have been a combination of everything.

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Seamus



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