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Use iCal to launch scripts on any schedule
I played around with the Alarm feature of iCal, and it looks like iCal has to actually be running at the time of an alarm for the alarm to be triggered. Too bad iCal doesn't use cron to run alarms so it wouldn't have to be left running...
Use iCal to launch scripts on any schedule
I had set up iCal to run an AppleScript that would blast music to wake me up in the morning. It worked once, so I don't know what's up with that... Also, more strangely, iCal sometimes wouldn't show a message (for a different alarm) at all, even if it was running, but it displayed the message once when iCal *wasn't* running. I thought that the faceless iCalHelper app was supposed to take care of this, and it with the last version, but 1.5.1 broke it for me...
Use iCal to launch scripts on any schedule
As you can see in my other post in this thread, I use iCal a lot to open files on a timed basis. I agree that it has some bugs in it. The one tip I can offer is about the timed event working only once. Did you set it as a repeating event or have you been dragging/cutting-pasting the same event from day to day as needed? I have found that you can't do either (dragging or cutting-pasting) to an event that has already performed its timed function at least once. Or rather, you can, but the timed event won't work again. |
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