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Use iCal to launch scripts on any schedule
Authored by: Faux Plastic on Nov 21, '03 04:42:33PM

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.

It seems that events have a hidden status that records whether it has already performed the timed event or not. So if you use it to sound an alarm today and when it's done you move it to next Tuesday, it won't go off because it has a status recorded that it has already performed its timed event.

So basically unless you can set the event up as repeating, you will have to make a new alarm every time.



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